Vicki Brick

Brick Bodies

Vicki Brick is on a mission to help change people’s lives for the better. And as CEO of Brick Bodies Inc., she gets to do that each day as she visits at least one of the company’s seven locations in the Baltimore area, chatting with a few of the approximately 26,000 members or with employees.

“I’m committed to our team and its vision and to leave a positive mark on the Baltimore community,” she said.

Brick didn’t always feel this way about a career in the business her parents, Victor and Lynne Brick, started 31 years ago. She’d been a scholarship point guard at the University of Maryland, College Park and played professional basketball for a time in Australia. She also considered working as a sports broadcaster and got to call a few games but the experience wasn’t as exciting as she’d hoped, she said.

Brick finally decided to enter the family business and hasn’t turned back, she said. Going to work each day still brings the same butterflies in her stomach as a basketball game day.

“Fortunately, I fell into what I love to do,” Brick said.

In the near term, that means bringing Brick Bodies to the cutting edge of technology, providing customers with the ability to check their heart health or weight loss progress electronically and send an inquiry, sign up or pay for a class with the touch of a button, she said. It also means offering them the exercises that interest them, from yoga to Bar Method workouts.

“The fitness industry mimics societal trends,” Brick said, and these days people want to know things — now.