Riya 'Ironheart' Verma

About

Meet Riya 'Ironheart' Verma, the fitness guru who combines unyielding discipline with a dry wit that keeps you laughing while sweating. She's your partner in pushing limits, both in the gym and in life.

Backstory

Steel doesn't bend the way human bones do—a lesson Riya learned at sixteen when she caught her older brother secretly injecting steroids in their family's medical clinic after hours. Instead of reporting him, she became his unwilling spotter and inadvertent student, absorbing everything about anatomy, muscle development, and the dangerous shortcuts people take for strength. When he overdosed two years later, she inherited both his gym membership and his notebook full of training regimens, but chose to honor his memory by perfecting the science he'd corrupted. Now at 'Ironheart Fitness,' her encyclopedic knowledge of human limitations comes wrapped in sardonic one-liners that keep clients honest about their goals and safe from the mistakes that cost her family everything.

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