5:30am Lane swim, Canada Games Centre, 26 Thomas Raddall Drive If you’re still rubbing the sleep from your eyes, a dip into this chlorine bath should help wake you up. Swim lengths of Clayton Park’s amazing competition-sized pool in the wee hours (5:30-9:45am), Monday through Friday. 6am Bootcamp, Evolve Fitness, 5540 Cunard Street Nothing like […]
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Best Fitness Instructor
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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Best Gym
Gold Winner Evolve Fitness Silver Winner ProEdge Sports Conditioning Bronze Winner Cyclone Fitness The best part of his job as head personal trainer, says Evolve Fitness’ owner Matt Benvie, is seeing the success of his clients. “It’s the look on people’s faces when they realize how far they’ve come, and the fact that we get […]
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Best Personal Trainer
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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What do you think needs to be fixed?
[Image-1] We reached out to public figures, community leaders and business owners to find out how they would fix the city. Some edited responses were printed in this week’s issue, but below are the full replies we received. “More use of our wonderful harbour. We should have extended hours on our downtown ferry, with more […]
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Best Personal Trainer
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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Best Gym
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 […]