October 29, 2016

Meet Decatur Personal Trainer and Athletic Trainer: Jacory Greene

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Jacory Greene.

Jacory, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I started personal training while I was Incarcerated. I started training other inmates and officers as a tool to make my time past by a little faster. But little did I know I actually fell in love with helping People getting physically fit, as well as mentally, spiritually, and emotionally fit. I knew that when I got out that I wanted to make training a career for me. With that being said I did exactly that. I started training people in the basement of my house, just trying to make a name for myself. Needless to say, it was definitely hard to do that since Atlanta has so much to offer. But I didn’t let that stop me from doing what I wanted to do in life. I keep growing, kept learning, and expanded my business. In 2015 I stared training people at Planet fitness and was also still trying to make a name foryself. Business was slow. It growing as well. It for to the point I had so many clients that I couldn’t bring all of them to planet fitness. That’s when I was blessed by meeting a young lady name Jazmine the owner of Cool Breeze downtown Stone Mountain, one of the best smoothie shops in town. She directed me to her brother-in-law Wilbur Little, who is the owner of Gym 360, where I currently train my clients at and host the Famous ButtdClass. I am very greatful to have the opportunity to train the woman and man of gym 360 and also the woman and man of my business Behealthconscious Activite Sports. I am now in the process of building my own gym in downtown Decatur which will be opening up January 2017. It has been a long process but a fun one as well.

Has it been a smooth road?
No, it has not been a smooth road. Why because there where so many obstacles that I had to deal with training to build my name as a trainer and just keep a steady schedule with training and holding on to two jobs. But in the mist of adversity, I pushed my self to accomplish my dreams and aspirations.

Tell us about your childhood, what were you like growing up?
Growing up as a child I will have to say I was active. I was into every sport, every Active in church, and just trying to be an all around great student.

Is there a specific memory from when you were younger that you really miss?
My favorite memory as a child might have to be living in my old community. Everyone on that block was either my age or my brother age. Everyone was close and we always had the best games to play with each other.

So, what’s next? Any big plans?
I’m looking forward to opening my own facility next year. But also have plans in opening another facility in the year 2019. I want to probably franchise my company.

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