Andria Caplan

Wife/Mother/Cage Fighter, 32

Noah Scalin

On a recent Wednesday, one of the six days per week that Andria Caplan trains, her 10-year-old son, John, accompanied her to the gym. John, who has blond spiky hair and an oversize green Daddis Fight Camps shirt, joked around with off-duty instructors and patiently waited as mom kicked, punched and grappled several feet away.

"It's something I never dread doing,' Caplan says. "If I'm not in [the gym] I'm thinking about it or talking about it.'

It shows. Andria has won two Muay Thai fights, her first grappling tournament and is now a known quantity in the local MMA community. She credits the sport with keeping her healthy, energetic and even socially active.

There is one drawback, though: All of her son's friends keep asking her to teach them how to fight. "I have to tell them all no,' she says. "We can't have them running around like that.'