JR Arostegui

Manager

b.fab.fitness

It took months of persuasion by his wife, Mandy, to get JR in the room, but only one b.fab.fitness class to know he was hooked for life. That was 2009 when JR timidly hid in the back, afraid to shake, shimmy or “woot woot” with the regulars who were having more fun exercising than he had at most parties.  Having grown up the self-described "fat kid", he lacked confidence in his body and its ability to do anything remotely similar to what he witnessed that day in class.  Regardless, what he did know was that he had too much fun not to return.  Fast-forward to 2012 and a much more outgoing JR moved from the back of the room to the front of the class, becoming the first “b.boy” on the b.fab team. “There's a tangible happiness inside a b.fab class.  It's a place where anyone, no matter your age, gender or skill, can be a rockstar for an hour,” he says. “I love this community--there's nothing like it.  I don't just workout with these people, I do life with them."