Today we’d like to introduce you to Bruce Boyd.
Hi Bruce, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
My wellness and fitness path started in 1983 at a recreation center in Houston, where a gentleman who was teaching a tone stretch class asked me to take over his class since he was moving out of the country. I was not only flabbergasted that he asked me but unprepared due to not knowing anything about teaching a class. After 2 classes, I quickly figured out the music cadence while working with a group of participants who were patient and encouraging. Subsequently, not only was I successfully teaching tone and stretch, I started a popular walking group.
I moved to Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex in 1985 to continue my newfound passion and began my first position teaching a fitness class at a gym in Arlington. While in Arlington, more doors open, such as St Thomas Sports Medicine Center and American Family Fitness. At this point, I decided to make fitness a career. I landed a position in Irving at CenterPoint Athletic Club, doing various fitness classes and
Personal Training. I also taught aerobics at the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleading Center.
While in Irving, I decided to go back to school for Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology (Presently had a B.A in Journalism/Communication). This landed me an internship at the Copper Continuous Education. Center, at the infamous Copper Fitness Center.
Many opportunities surfaced while I was at Copper’s, including teaching aerobics, step classes, and personal training; I started a youth sports camp and was also recruited and sponsored on the Reebok step team. I also received sponsorship from Avia. While at Cooper’s, I completed 2 of their certifications as well as assisted in certifying others.
My days were non-stop from 5:30 am til 8 pm between Cooper’s and Centrum Sports Club, where I also trained and taught classes. Fitness Factory emerged, and I began teaching my signature Power Circuit class and boxing classes as well as PT.
In 1995, I took the leap of faith, moving into Magnolia station, and began PT while continually teaching classes at Centrum and Fitness factory. I parted ways with Coopers due to their unfair percentage split with Personal trainers, so I started working with 2 football agents and began consistently training athletes.
In 1996, I started teaching yoga at Uptown Athletic Club and the Landry Center at Baylor. Interesting fact: they reframed from calling it yoga and titled the classes “Flexible Strength” at both locations.
Six months after that I opened “Studio E” which became a landmark for “Power Yoga” in Dallas. Other trend-setting classes offered were Fitness Sphere, Adrenaline, Multi-Sculp, Salsa Aerobics (Before Zumba), Kick Boxing, Tia Chi, and Belly Dancing. Studio E was featured in several magazines and newspapers and was successful for 6 years.
From 2005-2008 I moved into a high rise that had a state-of-the-art gym where I did PT and yoga classes.
During that time, I ventured into the hair industry by co-inventing my first two patents, hair tools that eventually took off like wildfire and became a world-renowned product! Thus, NuDred was born!
In 2021, I opened 4 Infinite Life, a Wellness and High-Performance Center, where I offer yoga, Pilates, boxing, PT, and a Prescription Board Circuit. 4 Infinite Life houses my 3rd patent, which is a functional geodesic dome, called the Infinite Performance Dome, and it is exactly as the title implies. Infinite possibilities can be achieved in the dome from special needs/bio-medical, fitness, Pilates, various yoga formats, and athletic performance.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
For the most part, smooth and flawless, there were always continuous signs that I was on the right path. There were a couple of hiccups when moving to Studio E’s second location. Also, a decision to partner with someone in 2014 to start an online fitness and lifestyle center turned out to be unproductive. With the right partner, this to would have been a landmark location. The most recent challenge was receiving the key to opening up 4 Infinite Life in July of 2021 and not receiving a permit until September 2022.
Thanks – so, what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Being a wellness and high-performance coach is a huge responsibility, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. My 40-plus years of watching people move and body language, listening to their experiences and stories, all the while connecting with them to assist them in being the best version of themselves. I have an opportunity to balance needs and wants for my clients. As I get feedback from eating, drinking, thinking, social, and overall behavior habits, they can be prescribed a formula to improve their performance, be it in life or sport.
I most proud of my resilience and standing the test of time while remaining passionate, and my continuous research in the field of human performance. I have had the great opportunity to produce inspirational and subliminal music to tap into one’s subconscious. I constantly seek the cutting-edge approaches or hacks, however, I’m still old school and believe in the process.
What separates me apart is the ability to balance science and art when working with 1 on 1 or groups. I get out the way of myself and become a vessel, allowing the divine to work through me. Now, I’m teaching/training in real-time and addressing what is need/ wanted in the moment,
What does success mean to you?
I define success as a very satisfying life where you can go to sleep at night knowing that you did your best to help mankind. It’s said that people always remember how you treated them. Empowering people is my calling, however there are instances when people misinterpret your intensions. And that’s too bad because if they would only get out the way of themselves. Ego is mankind’s biggest challenge, and that goes with overthinking, which causes missed opportunities and unnecessary suffering.
Balance and having resources to enjoy and share the pleasures of life is important.
Being conscious of breathing is a Hugh part of success, which promotes mindful thoughts, for empowering words, for productive actions, for amazing habits, resulting in an honorable character, all of which becomes an unforgettable destiny and legacy, for a positive impact on the world and divine presence in the universe.
Pricing:
- Yoga walk-ins $20 Sun 11 am/Tue/Thur 7 pm $150 monthly, includes Infinite Moves also
- Personal Training 1hour $120 30min $65
- Prescription Board $250 monthly
- Infinite Moves $25 walk-in M/W/F 6 am $150 monthly includes Yoga classes also
- HEAT (athletic training) Varies
Contact Info:
- Website: https://4infinitelife.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/4infinitelife/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nuyouwithbruce/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXsPn-VTjuwXdmMSBJ9kJZQ
Image Credits
Bruce Boyd
Bryan Boyd
Ema Allinger
Belinda Koudou
Loise Kemp
Cedrick Davis
Eian Brent
