By Denver Mackey
Contributing Author
Celebrating Mom’s Day, Cassandra Britt-Nickerson talked with the Sentinel about her profession and her group, Get Match with Britt Nick, a nonprofit devoted to serving to girls of colour develop the diet and health instruments essential to create a constructive well being legacy of their properties and communities.
Most just lately, Britt-Nickerson accomplished a 31-year profession with the Los Angeles Police Division. In her three plus a long time with the drive, her working assignments included Detectives, Undercover Juvenile Narcotics, Subject Sergeant, Anti-Terrorist Division and Undercover Vice.
Her final project was the Assistant Officer in Cost of Recruitment and Employment Division. Britt-Nickerson was “the poster little one” for LAPD and was featured on quite a few recruitment campaigns for them. She retired from LAPD in 2021.
Along with being a spouse, a mom, mentor, educator, health coach and private coach, Britt-Nickerson is a most cancers survivor. Britt says she resides proof of how being bodily match may also help save your life.
Recognized on her birthday in 2015, she says by way of God’s grace, early detection, aggressive therapy (together with quite a few surgical procedures and chemotherapy), nutritious diet, common train, a constructive angle and good assist, she is profitable the battle.
She is a Los Angeles native, having grown up in what was known as South Central L.A., however is now often known as South Los Angeles. A Washington Prep alumnus, she was a cheerleader and a scholar.
All the time energetic, she was launched to health formally throughout her undergraduate research at UC Davis. She in the end obtained her Bachelor’s diploma from California State College at Lengthy Seashore and can also be a Licensed Private Coach.
Along with working “Get Match with Britt-Nick,” Britt-Nickerson additionally runs the “Get Match with Britt-Nick Boot Camp” in Los Angeles and hosts an annual “Ladies’s Health Retreat.” She says it’s her aim to assist others, notably within the African-American and Latino neighborhood, to get match, keep match and redefine, have a good time and work together as a way to positively influence well being and wellness to generate a wholesome life-style legacy.
Relating what impressed her to begin her health group and the rewarding facets of working with girls, she defined, “I used to be at all times into health and at all times get rather a lot questions from girls who come as much as me and are afraid of weight lifting and I really feel like there has at all times been this stigma concerning the muscle being so gigantic and taking the femininity out of it.
“Although health has developed, after I first began my lessons, I began with weights, however we [women] don’t understand how helpful weightlifting actually is for our bone density, sturdy bones, and the way good it’s in your physique. Plenty of us persist with cardio, or Zumba lessons and I needed to introduce weightlifting as one thing that doesn’t must be intimidating,” mentioned Britt-Nickerson.
“I get lots of people that say after they go to the gymnasium they often persist with cardio machines they usually get intimidated by the free weight sections and see all the fellows and it feels good to show individuals methods to use the weights, and acquire extra confidence in figuring out and see how a lot of a distinction it makes for individuals.”
Britt-Nickerson is not any stranger to figuring out and has competed in and gained quite a few bodybuilding contests. In her health enterprise, she has labored with the Los Angeles Police Division Chief of Police and even individuals rehabilitating from catastrophic damage and sickness. She gained the the Stay Saving Medal Award from the LAPD for saving a person’s life who was making an attempt to leap off the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles.
Within the spirit of Mom’s Day, Britt-Nickerson needs to ship the message, “Have a good time your self, whether or not you’re a mother or not, and for those who do have one, have a good time her. We don’t understand how lengthy we have now on this earth to have a mother.
“Mom’s Day may be very onerous and spend as a lot time along with her as you’ll be able to and acquire that knowledge, have these conversations, give her these flowers, and have a good time her now. No one is your greatest supporter than your mother and you can’t take that with no consideration now.”
Beginning on Might 18, Britt will host her annual well being and health retreat, Glow Up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, the place girls can look ahead to “a way of renewal, experiences that a few of us haven’t been uncovered to, be overseas, do stuff you usually wouldn’t have finished on our personal,” she mentioned.
“We’re going to take some baggage with us and depart it! We’re going to get up and revel in every day and be taught one thing from each other!”
Keep tuned for extra info on the Glow Up Retreat within the coming weeks, and discover Cassandra Britt-Nickerson’s web site https://www.getfitwithbrittnick.com/ and Instagram @getfitwithbrittnick right here for health lessons and methods to get entangled.
