Today we’d like to introduce you to Adam and Danielle Robbins.
Adam and Danielle, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I started working out in the gym around 15 years old. My life was never a healthy one, with not much direction as a child and growing up in the bar and party scene. I started drinking and smoking at the age of 13. Shortly after I began using marijuana, and by the age 18 I was heavily addicted to many other substances. I lived that life struggling up and down for the next 10 years until I feel I hit rock bottom. The last 2 years up to 30yrs old I would like to say I barely made it.
On June 5th 2010, after a long weekend of partying and nothing left to my name, I woke up that Sunday, I went to church which I have never attended before and cried out in my silence to a God who I did not know, nor did I know if there was one. Well, I can say now I know He is real, and he loves me. He delivered me from my addictions, and lend me down a path I could have never imagined, By the next year after now being sober for more that I can ever remember, I began to coach at a local CrossFit Box. I stayed there for 3 years learning, studying, and growing in experience of coaching. In 2014 I was approached by a friend who wanted to partner and open our own gym and I immediately took it. Well I learned a hard lesson there because we spent 2 years building that business just to butt heads and end up closing the business and losing a friendship.
Looking back at it all now, I can see God’s hand guiding me through, as tough as it was and the stress my wife and I went through it was all worth it. It is something you will only learn in the real would no school could ever teach you. Well from the day we closed CrossFit Demand it took 14 days to reopen DNA Fitness. Through all of the stress and emotion of fear and worry about what we were going to do when we closed, a few weeks before we closed my old friend, who was the owner of the gym where I started over 5 years ago (CrossFit React), wanted to get out of the business and offered me to take it over, the very place where I started, the very place where I met my wife, the place where I found my passion for life, and that is to serve people.
Today we are a growing community of people of all levels of fitness. We are at about 100 members strong and have plans to start DNA Fit Camp in the parks in our community.
Our vision is to impact the life of as many people and families as possible by educating them on nutrition, the foundation to any wellness program, exercise where we teach people how to move correctly, and natural solution that lead to optimal health. We work together with local chiropractors, Physical Therapist, Nutritionist, and other professionals. We support local church missions and schools in the community. And our first Goal is to impact 3000 people and teach them how to live healthier in the next 5 years.
If you were to ask me 7 years ago where I would be, I probably would have said in jail, homeless or even dead. But by the grace of God and I do mean Grace because it is nothing that I deserved, I now have a life of purpose & fulfillment, and as I continue to grow personally. I believe the opportunities will continue to open for us to make a greater impact not only in this community by throughout the greater Miami area and across the country.
We are very thankful for the opportunity to tell our story with you and all of Miami.
Soon DNA Fitness will be known through Miami as a Gym that is not only helping people change physically, but also mentally and spiritually as well as we challenge everyone who walks through our door to raise their standards and become their greatest.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Drug addiction, dissolution of first gym, loss of friendships, marriage issues, stress and anxiety, worry, doubt, fear, lack of finances, health issues, sleep depravity…
DNA Fitness – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
DNA Fitness is a local Gym that challenges everyone to be their greatest. We teach people nutrition, Exercise, and natural solutions that lead to optimal health. We offer Nutrition advice, Group classes, Personal Training, Life coaching, and we also teach about the benefits of and how to use 100% pure therapeutic grade essential oils. We are known for our culture and community that we have created within our doors, one that is inviting, motivating and will inspire anyone who comes into our facility to make a decision to change. We are proud of that but more so we are proud of the ones who have put their trust in us and committed to change even when its hard and in turn have reaped the benefits and rewards of not only the program but the friendships. I believe this is what sets us apart, we don’t just challenge you physically but also to be a better person in your life and how you live. We challenge people to grow as a person and contribute which I believe has cultivated the culture in our gym. Hopefully it overflows into the community around.
What is “success” or “successful” for you?
Success to me is not financially. I believe that is a manifestation of what happened when your successful. To me impact, change, growth, contribution these are all success markers to me personally and to our business, are we continuing to grow and meet our goals, success! Are we continuing to impact people’s life in a way that creates lasting change, SUCCESS! Are we making a change in the community, Success! These things are what define success to me and if we are doing that money will come, its only inevitable.
Pricing:
- 140/month unlimited
- 120/ 3x’s a week
Contact Info:
- Address: 20450 Old Cutler Rd.,
Cutler Bay, FL 33189 - Website: Dnafitnessnation.com
- Phone: 786-222-8797
- Email: info@Dnafitnessnation.com
- Instagram: Dnafitnessnation
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DNAfitnessnation/?ref=bookmarks
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/dna-fitness-cutler-bay
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