The Genius Murim Fitness Trainer

Description

During the great pandemic, my gym went under. While desperately trying to make ends meet, I possessed a character in Murim. I was excited to see that I was in the Shaolin Temple, but what the hell? Everyone's bodies are wrecked from working out the wrong way! How can I just sit back and watch when I used to be a personal trainer?! I'll teach you the correct, modern exercise methods and heal you all with low-frequency treatment and infrared therapy using inner energy! X Days until the Shaolin Gym opens.

Original Novel

Original Webtoon:
Naver Webtoon, Naver Series

Official Translations:
English, Thai, Japanese, T.Chinese

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

El entrenador genio de artes marciales

El genio de artes marciales

El genio entrenador de artes marciales

Genius Martial Arts Trainer

Genius Murim Trainer

สุดยอดเทรนเนอร์แห่งยุทธภพ

少林天才健身課

最強武林トレーナー

천재 무림 트레이너

Groups Scanlating

Asura

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LINE Webtoon

Latest Release(s)

c.74 by LINE Webtoon 11 hours ago

c.95 by Asura 2 days ago

c.73 by LINE Webtoon 1 week ago

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Status in Country of Origin

87 Chapters (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

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User Rating

Average: 6.9 / 10.0 (81 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.73 / 10.0

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Last Updated

November 1st, 2025 4:11pm PDT - 2 months ago

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Genre

Action Comedy Drama Fantasy Harem Martial Arts Shounen
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Author(s)

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Artist(s)

MIDNIGHT STUDIO

Year

2024

Original Publisher

CNC Revolution Co., Ltd.

MIDNIGHT STUDIO

Naver

Serialized In (magazine)

Naver Webtoon (Naver)

Naver Series (Naver)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Line Webtoon

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #369

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Monthly Pos #538

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3 Month Pos #530

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6 Month Pos #460

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Year Pos #380

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List Stats

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On 79 wish lists

On 3 completed lists

On 16 unfinished lists

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Good art, terrible story

by sulthan
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

First of all, the art is not bad. It's nothing amazing but above average.
The story is the problem. In summary, an amazing modern fitness trainer (and physiotherapist, food expert etc.) is transported into a murim novel as a shaolin disciple.

Now this is where it all goes bad. The author has no actual knowledge of martial arts, traditional training or even Shaolin.
For some reason, everyone in Shaolin works hard to destroy their bodies via repetitive incorrect training (!) and he can also defeat older disciples by applying wrestling techniques he had learnt in the special forces because obviously the monks have never seen grappling before (!).

The premise itself is absolutely ridiculous. What did it for me was the fact that he keeps calling squats a "modern exercise" and he somehow thinks that a few months of "modern" military training is somehow better than years studying traditional martial arts.

Apart from that, nothing has really happened but lots of secondary characters have been already introduced. No plot in sight.

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Twitter brainrot complaints

by xdeusxongwei
5 days ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

It seems the loudest criticisms boils down to;

complaining about there being romance between men and women (basically complaining about heterosexuality)
complaining about Men writing romances (engaging in sexism)
complaining that the series is sexist (irony lost here)
complaining about a martial arts and action series promoting physicalfitness (how dare people be fit and healthy 🙄)

Isn't there some omega verse series that can keep these folks preoccupied and stop "criticising" the fun for normal people? This series is largely a fine, enjoyable, martial arts series. Is it Shakespeare? No. But, it doesn't have to be just to be comsidered fine.

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Giving false information

by imblad3
2 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

I just lol'ed at the story about how a long history shaolin sect monk trainee have a knee pain in their training. I know the author just want to emphasize MC knowledge about gym thingy, but there are many other proper way though.

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romance

by TiredandDeadInside
3 weeks ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Why is there romance when MC is a monk? Why are women being catty bitches with each other over a MONK? Why are women being catty bitches over a man in the first place? As if there aren't a million other ones existing?

Girls, where are your self-respect?! Disgusting.

I mean, I'd understand if this is Theravada Buddhism, but it isn't. This is Shaolin, very cleary a bastion of Mahayana Buddhism. Therefore, once you become a core disciple, you're not leaving to have a family! Period!

(In Theravada Buddhism many boys will become monks for 5 years or so then return to their homes, grow up and marry.

I know because my birth country is Buddhist, as in it's enshrined into the constitution, making it the state religion. Around 96% of the population is some flavor of Buddhist with the vast majority being Theravada. Some men in my family are abbots and we have our own family temple.

I'm also half Chinese and that side is devoutly Mahayana. So, I think I can can safely say I know what I'm talking about.)

The first girl introduced is mentally weak. She was easily influenced by people with bad intentions because she was so desperate for her father's attention, love and validation that she became evil in the original novel.

The father and grandmother and all the older family members are mostly to blame (because you shouldn't have children you're not prepared to care for, duh) but this girl is also partially responsible for her own stupidity.

No one was called out on this. No one was made aware of how the their benign neglect contributed to the girl's physical, psychological and mental deterioration. Whereas the MC was aaaaaall about screaming at his own superiors for their wrong training forms, methods and teachings. For some unholy 50 chapters!

Double standard.

On that note, I don't think this author was fat-phobic. Neither was there any fat shaming.

The above girl became obese out of self-harm. The root of the problem that encouraged this dangerous behavior to develop was corrected, thankfully. Better yet she lost weight responsibly and patiently. No magical herbs or whatever making her skinny overnight.

So there was no sense of a fat girl being shamed for being fat. She figured shit out on her own, realizing her own behavior is contributing to her dissatisfaction about herself.

SHE saved HERSELF. That's incredible. Most women who are in her situation are too busy feeling sorry for themselves to take responsibility, whining about how the world is mean to fat women, and refuses to do what she did to get better. She deserves her flowers for this.

However, giving her a romantic attachment to MC is straight up gross. She's a child compared to MC who, yes, was originally not a monk, but he's also originally waaaaaaaay older than this girl, too.

To make this whole romance nonsense even worse they added a second girl who's even more delusionally infatutated with the monk.

I really like this girl's attitude and looks, but this was so unbearably stupid I have to drop at ch. 60.

Men writing romance into their action stories, 99% of the time will ruin their own work. This is yet another casualty.

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Boring and sexist

by clostridium
2 months ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

A teenage female character is shamed because she gained weight and is, therefore, according to this manhwa’s logic, ugly and unworthy. So, of course, the ML makes it his mission to help her lose weight and practice “maiden arts” for her beauty. Barf. This same teenager is being built up as the ML’s future love interest. FYI, the ML was in his 30’s before he came into the murim world. Mega barf.

Another female character who is supposed to be a promising martial artist loses to ML in a fight because she developed feelings for him and couldn’t handle him being so close to her.. while they were dueling. 🙄

The ML and his peers are supposed to be teenagers (14/15) but they look like they’re in their mid-20s.

ML has a background of being in the special forces in his original world, and is supposed to be learning martial arts in the murim world. But all the techniques he’s been using in fights in the murim world have been lackluster. The only nice one was the very first spar when he had just started in the murim world.

I was so excited for a murim manhwa focusing on the shaolin monks but this was very disappointing. Dropped at chapter 60.

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Interesting premise but...

by solarisx
1 year ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

the story isn't going anywhere. At least, nowhere interesting. I also don't like how the MC doesn't have any defining features that make him stand out from all the other monks. They all look exactly the same. Having different eye color or eyebrows isn't enough.

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