I always tell people that everyone is in there dealing with something, they’re fighting their own fight, no one’s looking at you…you just gotta walk in and do it.
Unbelievably driven and contagiously positive, Brandy, took control of his health by stepping outside his comfort zone and starting a new chapter of his life with the TITLE Fam by his side. Before the beginning of his health journey, he found himself feeling sluggish and low energy, however, it was a specific event that he recalls as being the tipping point for getting started, “I was running through an airport on a business trip, and my wife had a foot injury and she was outrunning me…I also just wasn’t feeling good,” he explained to us. After years of not putting himself first, he enrolled in a six-week workout challenge in July of 2019 at TITLE Boxing Club Woburn with no boxing experience under his belt.
Brandy found that first class to be so fun and challenging that he committed to going five days in a row. Those five days came and went, and before he knew it, he was attending two classes per day, which meant he was taking a whopping ten classes per week. “It wasn’t about reaching a goal, it was about sticking to a commitment,” Brandy told us his reasoning for attending so many classes. Unable to attend the sixth week because he was going to be out of town, Brandy weighed in at the end of week five and found that he’d lost 22 pounds since beginning the challenge. “I felt great, I was playing with my kids more, felt more alert and was wearing clothes I hadn’t worn in years,” he proudly proclaimed.
Still determined to complete six weeks of TITLE workouts, he called up TITLE Boxing Club Knoxville in Tennessee, where he would be with his family exploring the city they were soon moving to, and was able to get in a few more workouts before the challenge was officially over. It’s safe to say…he was hooked. Throughout the next couple of months, he spent time in both states, traveling back in forth for one reason or another. During this time, he asked TITLE Boxing Club Burlington and TITLE Boxing Club Woburn if he could still attend some classes without committing to a membership, as he was about to be in Tennessee full time, and they agreed. “I actually didn’t have a car there at the time so I was walking three miles to class then Ubering back after,” he recounted. In addition to the in-club classes he was able to fit in his schedule, he was also utilizing our On-Demand workouts and creating his own boxing-inspired exercise regimen.
A few months after officially moving to Tennessee, Brandy fell ill and was unable to box for two weeks, which was the longest stint of time he had gone without doing a boxing workout since before starting the workout challenge. Healed, but still frail from his break, Brandy was ready to get back in the club… then COVID-19 took the world by storm and his in-club workouts would have to wait. In April, a friend in Georgia reached out to Brandy and told him of the struggles they were having in quarantine. This gave Brandy an idea to start doing zoom boxing workouts with her and thus an online support system was born, “I would share a live workout from TITLE, which was already posted, and I would share my screen and show her what it’s like to be in a TITLE club, then I started posting here and there on Instagram and Facebook of me doing the workouts and more people asked me about it,” he told us.
People from all over the country began signing up to, in Brandy’s words, “hold me accountable,” a practice that has kept him boxing at home for 66 consecutive days! Excited about the support he was receiving, he created a website and plans on continuing the at-home workout exercises until he feels comfortable returning to TITLE Boxing Club Knoxville. Brandy started his health and fitness journey to do something for himself but has ended up inspiring many others to do the same along the way. Speaking to those considering giving TITLE a shot he told us, “I always tell people that everyone is in there dealing with something, they’re fighting their own fight, no one’s looking at you…you just gotta walk in and do it.”