My Story

Making my battle scars my success story.

Growing up I had a lot of positive influences in my life to counteract the negative interferences. Sports became one of a major positive influence. I was fortunate to come from a two parent household, where both my parents supported me and allowed me to dedicate myself to sports. My love for sports continued to grow over the years; football and track became my primary focus. I played football and ran track throughout middle school and high school. During my collegiate career at both Monroe Junior College in New York and Fayetteville State University in North Carolina I got to run track and play football at the collegiate level. During my time at Fayetteville State University I lost my focus and my academics started to decline, which costed me my collegiate career in football. Before finishing college I got a phone call saying I was going to be a dad so my focus changed.

I moved back home (Washington, DC) and my primary focus became to provide for my family and be an amazing father. I hustled and grind even harder to not only provide but keep my passion for fitness at the forefront. Trying to maintain my fitness, I would go to the gym almost every day some times twice a day. I liked the gym but nothing compared to being out there on the field with your adrenaline pumping. After getting back in the gym I started to play flag football on the weekends to keep me running and because it was still football. On September 11, 2016, I found out how something you love can cost so much pain; I tore my ACL. I can confidently say this day was amongst the worst that I experienced in my lifetime. I went through surgery it took me 9 months to get back on my feet.

“Success doesn't come overnight, neither does fitness.”

What’s next? What can I do to still keep sports and fitness in my life? While recovering from survey I found my sitting and asking myself these questions in my head, even though my current state seems like a sign telling me to let it go. Sports and fitness was all I knew. It was my outlet to pain, setbacks, and everything I was going through. I used the gym as something to help me cope and I questioned if it would work this time and it did. I told myself don't just make fitness your hobby make it a career. I knew being hurt set me back and I still had bills to pay and a family to feed. I didn't want to keep working jobs that I didn't like and didn't put me closure to my passion. So I made a conscious decision to become an entrepreneur, to make my passion a lifestyle; not a hobby. I started investing in my craft. I went back to school and took some course to get my personal training certification. I started to promote myself and my business by offering training for little to nothing. As time went on I started growing and gaining more knowledge to perfect my craft. As I continue to make strides I was able to increase my prices to obtain some type of profit and clientele started to increase.

This is my passion, something I’ve put my all into, something I’ve gone broke for, something I sacrificed so much for and that’s what Jworthyfitness come from being worthy of it all because it’s all worth it in the end.

Remember success doesn't come overnight and neither does fitness; but it will be all worth it in the end.

-Jerrod W.