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with Batrice Adams
Batrice Tru Adams has been working in the fitness industry for
over 10 years. She is a Certified Personal Trainer, Group Exercise
Instructor, Speed and Agility Instructor, Performance Nutritionist
and Fitness Chef holding her credentials with AFAA, NESTA, ATI
and AAAI. Batrice possesses certifications in Fierce FUNk®,
Indoor Cycle, TRX® and Kickboxing.
Batrice Adams
1. How did you start your fitness career?
In 2001, I was living in Texas with my husband, Asante, who was stationed at Fort Hood. A few
weeks after 9/11 occurred, he received orders to go overseas to Tikrit; he was gone for 18
months. It was just me and our two kids, Genesis and Xavier, alone with no father and no nearby
family. To distract myself from constantly worrying and missing my husband, I started going
to the gym after I dropped my children off at school and daycare. I spent my mornings taking
classes and then most of the evening doing the same thing; I even starting taking boxing lessons.
Outside of caring for my children, fitness became my coping mechanism, keeping me strong and
preventing me from falling to pieces. It literally saved my life.
2. Who is your inspiration?
Who inspired me to enter the fitness industry initially? I know EXACTLY who that was. After practically living in the gym every day, my boxing instructor, Roland Cager, finally asked me why I
wasn’t doing this for a living. He saw the passion I had for fitness way before I ever recognized it
myself. He told me I should get certified, that I NEEDED to. It was what I was meant to do. So, I
did.
3. What has been your favorite moment while working in this industry?
Hands down, it has to be the people I help inspire to change their lives. Without sounding boastful, it’s never once escaped me how much of an impact what I do has on them. I cannot even begin to fully express the joy I feel when I see people believe in their own potential and then act on
it. That I had even a small part in their journey makes me so grateful for the opportunity to coach,
train, and teach. I can’t think of anything else I would want to do in the course of my life’s work
other than this.
4. Describe B.R.Y.C.K.E.D Up in one sentence.
I like to think of my program as a fresh blueprint to help structure and redesign one’s strength,
power, and possibilities. I would also like to say that I think it’s awesome, but that would be two
sentences...