Grant Parish native Bonita Armour has practiced law in Louisiana for nearly 30 years, but it was an investment in fitness that has turned her community around. A Louisiana Christian University and LSU Law School alumna, Armour found herself without a place to work out. She solved the problem by creating a home gym with her husband for her and her friends to do CrossFit.

They named their group B22, inspired by the Taylor Swift song "22." Armour says she and her friends want to have fun, feel 22 and do this for the rest of their lives. When Armour's fitness group outgrew their home gym, she knew she had to go bigger. She never could have imagined how much bigger her fitness club, B22Fit, was going to be.

After buying the former Grant High gymnasium in Dry Prong, which was abandoned for sev

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