The BEATS Story

BEATS Barre Studio was built as a response to wanting something more out of fitness.
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Founder Meredith Trout wasn’t looking to start a fitness brand. She was trying to solve a problem she was living inside of.
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As a mom of three boys, Meredith knew what pregnancy, recovery, and real life do to a woman’s body. She trained hard. She tried studios everywhere. And she kept seeing the same outcome—workouts that promised results but left women exhausted, injured, and frustrated.

Bad programming.
Trend-driven movement.
Intensity over intelligence.
Women were being told to push harder when what they needed was to move smarter.

So Meredith started experimenting. Not in a studio. Not with mirrors or spotlights.
In her basement in North Carolina.

She stripped fitness down to the essentials—strength without strain, rhythm without chaos, results without injury. Every movement had a reason. Every class had a purpose. BEATS was growing rapidly in NC because women were seeing results from their workouts for the first time in their lives. Trust and community were being built.  Then life changed.

Her family moved to Columbia, South Carolina for her husband’s job. New city. No built-in community. So Meredith did what she’d already proven she could do—she started again.

This time, in her garage.

Word spread quickly. Women showed up. Cars lined the street. The results spoke louder than the noise—until the noise became literal. A neighbor complained. The city was called. More than once.

That pressure forced a decision.

Meredith opened the first BEATS Barre Studio in October, 2023. The next chapter in the BEATS story is being written now.

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