My Personal Bio:

Hi my name is Brandi Williams from Troy, Ohio. I begun a career in the fitness industry as a group exerise instructor in April of 2000. I currently work full-
time as a health and wellness director for a YMCA in the Greater Dayton area. I teach several group exercise classes a week. I am a group exercise fanatic! I LOVE teaching Turbo Kick mostly because of the clothes! My job is FUN because of the members I get to see each day.

The other biggest thing in my life is my husband. I have been married this wonderful man, Jon, since June 2006. We just started our furbaby family with Luna, our 11 month old cat.


Other than working out and spending time with Jon I love music! I play the guitar and love to sing karaoke. My childhood dream was to be on Broadway. I also enjoy reading and finding ways to become a better person.

My Transformation Story:

Everyone has a chubby stage when they are younger. Mine happened in third grade. Although, when I look back at those pictures, I wasn’t chubby at all. Nonetheless, things started to change for me at school and all I can remember is that I started to develop the idea that I was fat.

On we go to fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grade. I hid behind baggy clothes, big glasses, and even bigger hair. It was the 80’s after all. I just wanted was to be popular and have boys like me. I wanted to be noticed in a good way…not as the fat red-headed girl.

Things started to change in Junior High. I became a cheerleader in eight grade. Even though I was bigger than all the girls, I will always pride myself that my jumps were higher than all of the other girls on my squad. I worked hard to be the best cheerleader I could be. I tried not to cry when I had to have my basketball uniform made because they didn’t have any that fit me.

I was a freshman in high school when I went on my first diet. I was cheering at a Varsity Football game. I remember staring up into the crowd smiling. Then I heard it…it started soft and grew louder. “Your Fat, clap clap, Lose Weight.” A group of young boys yelled at me. I’ll never forget the sting in my heart, but I looked up at them smiled and did the best toe-touch I could. “Wow,” they said. “You’re really good!.” But it was too late.

As school ended and summer began, I started to run. I lost 30 pounds that summer. Taking me from around 200 to 170 pounds. The year before I was wearing a size 14 or 16 and went school clothes shopping for size 9’s and 11’s. But it wasn't good enough.

The summer that I went into my Junior year of high school, I made the Varsity cheerleading squad. I was also in band and I began taking tumbling lessons. Everyday I would get up and go to cheer practice for two hours. When I got home my step-sister and I would ride our bikes a 14-mile round trip to the community pool. After that I would either go for another bike ride or a rollerblade. Then at night I would run 2-6 miles. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, a two-hour gymnastics practice was thrown into the bunch. I did this everyday, all summer. All that exercise and all I ate every day was a bowl of cornflakes, an apple, and a bagel with peanut butter. That was a good day…
some days it was even less.

Sometime during my Junior year of High School I reached my lowest weight of 110 pounds…from 200 pounds. My body fat was so low that my periods stopped for six months. I didn’t even noticed it. The only thing I was concerned with was the number on the scale.

My Senior year of high school was filled with so many emotions. I began to run even more because I decided not to cheer that year. I don’t know what my lowest weight was because my mom threw away our scale. I was always angry and any little thing would set me off. I scared off all of my friends and distanced myself from everyone. I lived in a hole of existence where all I heard in my head was that I was fat and the whole world was against me.

I graduated high school and shipped off to college that fall. I’ll never forget the first group exercise class I took at college. It was called Funk and it was taught by a guy name Criston. I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. Then I found out he was a student, then I found out there was an exercise major, then I found out I too could teach classes at the REC. I was totally sold.

My entire college career I struggled with my weight. I was tired all the time, sluggish, forgetful—there was a host of issues. I was tested time and time again for hypothyroid. All this exercise and no one could tell me why I was gaining weight.

After college I spent two years working in the fitness industry before I decided to go back to graduate school. During my two years, I began to teach Turbo Kick. I found that teaching was becoming a struggle and I was still gaining weight no matter how good my diet was or how much I exercised. Yet Turbo Kick and exercise kept me going.

When I graduated, I moved to Troy, Ohio to work full-time as the health and wellness director at a YMCA. I was fortunate to find a great doctor that was finally able to diagnose me with an autoimmune thyroid condition. Once I began treatment, my energy levels started to return to normal…I started to feel like me.

Beachbody products have helped me be me again. Turbo takes me to places I've never imagine and P90X helps me realize what I a capable of. Thank you beachbody for giving me my life back!