About Us

I have been personal training for over 15 years. Like many of my clients, I started training to improve my own confidence and appearance. Over time I have come to see that these goals are part of a larger picture of health that includes a balanced lifestyle.

Pam and I share a vision to teach our clients how to balance accomplishment and drive in order to become stronger people, from the inside out. I feel I’ve done my job when I see my clients become more complete in all areas of their lives, and I’m dedicated to making sure each person I train reaches their goals.

For the past eight years I have focused my training expertise on weight loss/management and lifestyles training. My goal with all of my clients is to increase their self-confidence by helping them live healthy, balanced, exuberant lives.

My passion for personal training comes from my own experience. Having battled anorexia and bulimia, and having gone through drastic weight gain with my pregnancies, I had to find the determination to regain an energetic and positive lifestyle. This process led us to develop programs like Babies & Backpacks, and Babies & Buggies – because we recognized that fitness should be an integral part of everyone’s life, rather than something that takes us away from it.

My husband Jurgen has taught me what it means to be truly supportive of someone who is working to attain a goal. Because of my success, I feel driven to be that support for each of my clients. More than anything, I love to see my clients accomplish their goals and become more complete.

Andrew McDonnell has been training clients for almost a decade. His client base is diverse, but he consistently meets the objective of every client, and that is to bring their goals to fruition. His expereince and skills include everything from professional motorcycle racers to National rugby athletes, as well as competitive dancers, pro golfers, and the weekend warrior.

Andrew is certified through CanFitPro and is also a Pro Trainer that facilitates the education of other trainers. An avid runner, he has completed numerous 10km runs, a half and full marathon, triathlon and participates in recreational sport when time permits.

Andrew's philosophy in the industry is to train “functionally”. In other words, every movement that you make in the gym will replicate a movement you could make in everyday life. The tendency is to disregard isolationist movements such as biceps curls, leg press etc. These movements serve no real purpose in developing everyday functionality and therefore should play little to no part in a balanced training program. Education and motivation with the use of highly functional equipment such as free weights, kettle-bells, medicine balls, bands, bodyweight and elevations will result in workouts that you never thought you could complete and unparalleled results. Andrew believes exercise and comfort should not be used in the same sentence.