Gold Winner Mitch Benvie, Evolve Fitness Silver Winner Andrew Mitton, Fit2gether Bronze Winner Devin Sherrington, 360fit “Everything about our job is rewarding,” says four-time Best Trainer, Mitch Benvie, of Evolve. His background in kinesiology has always guided the way workouts are planned at Evolve, which offers 88 boot camps a week, until recently all planned […]
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Gold Winner Mitch Benvie, Evolve Fitness Silver Winner Shea Lenehan, ProEdge Sports Conditioning Bronze Winner Devin Sherrington, 360fit Mitch Benvie has an awful lot in common with his brother, Matt. They’re identical twins who are both personal trainers and they co-own their gym—Evolve Fitness, Halifax’s gold-winning Best Gym. “We grew up brothers in a small […]
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Gold Winner Evolve Fitness Silver Winner Fitness FX Bronze Winner 360fit Evolve Fitness started off as a place for private personal training eight years ago, but it evolved (ha ha) when it expanded to include bootcamp workouts four years later. “We’re not military style at all,” says owner Mathew Benvie. “We just kind of become […]
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Gold Winner Mitch Benvie, Evolve Fitness Silver Winner Cara Bauld, 3rd Degree Training Bronze Winner Devin Sherrington, 360fit For Mitch Benvie, being a trainer is hardly a job. It’s more like “hanging out with friends, but you’re making them exercise,” says Benvie, who runs Evolve Fitness with his brother Mathew. In his opinion, being a […]
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Gold Winner Alan Dalton, Evolve Fitness Silver Winner Cara Bauld, Third Degree Training Bronze Winner Elana Liberman, Cyclone Group Fitness “Really, it’s about a sense of community,” Matt Benvie, owner of Evolve Fitness, explains in the gym’s well-lit waiting room. “We add value to people’s life and they add value to ours.” He adds that […]
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Gold Winner Mitch Benvie, Evolve Fitness Silver Winner Bobby Pedersen, 360fit Bronze Winner Devin Sherrington, 360fit “Really, it’s about a sense of community,” Matt Benvie, owner of Evolve Fitness, explains in the gym’s well-lit waiting room. “We add value to people’s life and they add value to ours.” He adds that he’s often emailing recipes […]
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Gold Winner Bobby Pedersen, ProEdge Sports Conditioning Silver Winner Mitch Benvie, Evolve Fitness Bronze Winner Devin Sherrington, 360fit “I truly love my job,” says strength coach Bobby Pedersen. The former athlete loves seeing young athletes meet their full potentials through science-based performance training, and working with his team at ProEdge is extremely rewarding. “Being a […]
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Gold Winner Cara Bauld, 3rd Degree Training Silver Winner Alan Dalton, Evolve Fitness Bronze Winner Peter Courtney, 360fit “After falling head over heels in love with 3rd Degree Training as a client in the founding location of Stratford, PEI, I was thrilled to share their unique program and open the first franchise in Burnside in […]
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Gold Winner Mitch Benvie, Evolve Fitness Silver Winner Devin Sherrington, 360fit Bronze Winner Scott Robinson, Palooka’s Executive Fitness Only very special people in this world can get away with telling a roomful of sweaty, exhausted people to “suck it up” (while smiling, of course) as they struggle to get through a set of burpees. Mitch […]
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Gold Winner Evolve Fitness Silver Winner 360fit Bronze Winner Cyclone Group Fitness While studying kinesiology at St. FX, Matt Benvie started to reconsider his plans to become a gym teacher. After getting inspired by some courses on personal training, and being encouraged by a couple of trusted profs, Evolve Fitness was born in 2009. Now […]
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Gold Winner Devin Sherrington, 360fit Silver Winner Matt Mombourquette, One to One Wellness Centre Bronze Winner Krissy Adams-Schofield “A client said to me recently, ‘It’s like Cheers without alcohol’,” says Devin Sherrington of his gold-winning gym, 360fit, where everybody knows your name, apparently. When it comes to his award-winning fitness regiment, he attributes most of […]
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Gold Winner 360fit Silver Winner South Park YMCA Bronze Winner Good Life Fitness, Park Victoria “A client said to me recently, ‘It’s like Cheers without alcohol’,” says Devin Sherrington of his gold-winning gym, 360fit, where everybody knows your name, apparently. When it comes to his award-winning fitness regiment, he attributes most of his trainee fans […]
