Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor, PPSC Certification & Nutrition Coach PNL2
I help women lose weight and keep it off without feeling like they’re on a diet
Former Lululemon Ambassador, Competitive Olympic Weightlifter, PN L2 Nutrition Coach and overall sweat junkie, Sophie is on the pursuit to live a regret free life. With a background in competitive sports, including swimming and varsity rowing, Sophie loves to push her limits by taking on new challenges and hopes to inspire others to make exercise something they love to do.
Sophie was inspired to become a personal trainer after joining the Under Armour What’s Beautiful Contest – a competition to redefine the female athlete. She declared to help ten women step outside their comfort zone in pursuit of a fitness goal, After documenting one of the most inspirational stories Sophie was selected as a Motivational Champion out of 14,000 women and was sent to Camp Sweat in Florida to train with nine other women at the IMG Academy.
After returning from Camp Sweat, Sophie founded True Conditioning based on her mission to empower women through fitness and health. Sophie believes all women should feel comfortable and confident in their body, and hopes to inspire others to step outside their comfort zone, so they may uncover their true fitness potential.
Studio Operations Manager, Nutrition Coach PNL1
To help stressed and overwhelmed women and moms reconnect with themselves through nutrition. Guiding them to manage their energy, gain clarity, and feel confident stepping into their full potential.
Amanda Cannata is a nutrition coach dedicated to helping women feel energized, confident, and back in control of their lives. As a mother of two, she understands the challenges of balancing family, work, and personal well-being. Amanda works with stressed and overwhelmed women—especially moms—to help them reconnect with themselves, manage their energy, and build sustainable habits that support their goals. Her approach blends nutrition and mindset to help clients gain clarity, rebuild confidence, and step into their full potential.
Head Coach, Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor
My mission is to empower individuals to embrace their health journeys and achieve their personal best, drawing on the determination and teamwork I cultivated through my sports career.
Holly Jang is a passionate personal trainer and fitness advocate with a lifelong dedication to competitive sports. Having played softball and hockey at a high level, Holly’s athletic background informs her training philosophy and approach to fitness. Her journey began in her youth, where she excelled in both sports, developing skills in teamwork, discipline, and resilience. After earning her certifications in personal training, Holly transitioned to helping others achieve their fitness goals.
She specializes in creating personalized training programs that draw on her experience as an athlete, whether clients are aiming for weight loss, strength building, or overall wellness.
In addition to her one-on-one training sessions, Holly also leads group classes. She believes in the power of a balanced lifestyle, integrating mindfulness and nutrition into her fitness coaching. Holly actively shares on social media, offering fitness tips, motivational content and workouts.
Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor
My mission is to help people find joy and fulfillment in everyday movement, build strength to feel confident and capable, and create a supportive community where everyone feels encouraged and connected.
Megan studies Kinesiology and plays rugby at the University of British Columbia. Movement is a big part of her everyday life, whether she’s resistance training, doing CrossFit, running, hiking, swimming, or simply going for a walk. She believes movement should be something people genuinely enjoy rather than something they feel obligated to do.
Her positive experiences with training and sport have shaped the way she approaches coaching. Megan wants to help others discover forms of movement they enjoy while building strength, confidence, and physical capacity for life and longevity. Living with her grandparents has also given her a firsthand appreciation for the importance of strength training in maintaining independence and quality of life as we age. This has strengthened her belief that training isn’t only about performance or appearance. It’s about building a body that allows you to keep doing the things you love for as long as possible.
Just as importantly, Megan strives to create a supportive community where people feel welcome, encouraged, and motivated to keep showing up for themselves.
Outside the gym, Megan is a paramedic and a member of Search and Rescue. She thrives in high-pressure situations and finds fulfillment in helping others. These experiences have shaped her into a compassionate and adaptable coach who understands the importance of meeting people where they are and supporting them through challenges.
TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor
My mission is to create a supportive fitness community where people of all levels feel motivated to challenge themselves, build healthy habits, and keep moving toward their goals, one step at a time.
Carlos has always found a sense of community through fitness and enjoys being surrounded by people who are motivated to push themselves a little further each day, whatever their goals may be.
Sports and movement have been a part of his life for as long as he can remember. From playing soccer growing up in Colombia to basketball, bodybuilding, and now long-distance running after 20 years of living in Canada, Carlos has experienced a wide range of approaches to fitness. These experiences have shaped his understanding of movement and the many different ways fitness can positively impact our lives.
For Carlos, staying active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle have helped him navigate life’s challenges while continuing to grow both physically and mentally. Now, through teaching fitness classes, he hopes to share that experience with others and create the same sense of community, motivation, and support that fitness has brought to his own life.
Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor
To help people rebuild strength, reduce pain, and improve their quality of life by combining medical knowledge with practical, personalized fitness coaching.
I’m Megan, a BCPRA-certified personal trainer with a focus on helping you feel your best while achieving your fitness goals! As a practicing pharmacist, I have a deep understanding of human physiology and medical conditions. This allows me to provide a more holistic approach to physical activity.
Throughout my fitness journey, I have participated in various physical activities such as weight lifting and triathlon. after facing injuries, I realized that movement, no matter how small, can be restorative physically and mentally.
Whether you are looking to rebuild your strength, manage a chronic condition, or move without pain my goal is to empower you with the tools and confidence to succeed. Movement is medicine.
Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor
To share my passion for fitness and promoting physical activity as a means to improve the health and well-being of individuals
Zainisha grew up in Richmond, where she swam competitively and coached swimming for many years. This sparked her interest in sports medicine and led her to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Health Physiology. As her interests shifted from sports medicine to diabetes research, Zainisha continued in academia, completing a Master of Science in Physiology and a PhD in Exercise and Health Physiology.
It was during her PhD that Zainisha discovered her passion for promoting the philosophy that exercise is medicine, which led her to become certified as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist (CEP) through the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. Zainisha gained experience as a CEP in both private and public settings, providing physical activity and healthy living education, guidance, and tailored exercise interventions to a wide range of individuals, including those living with obesity and chronic disease.
Zainisha is currently the Physical Activity and Health Promotion Coordinator at HealthLink BC, where she develops evidence-based content on movement behaviours and healthy living across the lifespan for both the public and health professionals. She also supports the development of provincial health promotion initiatives.
Throughout her academic career, Zainisha continued to swim competitively with varsity and Masters swim teams. Since retiring from competitive swimming, she has continued to challenge both her body and mind through athletic pursuits including half marathons, triathlons, and HYROX.
Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor
To help people get genuinely strong — the kind of strong that makes everyday life easier.
What started as a skinny teenager trying to put on size turned into more than 13 years in the gym. Josh found his footing first as a competitive natural bodybuilder and lifelong athlete, and later as a certified personal trainer with over seven years of hands-on experience. He earned his stripes on the stage, including a competition win, all of it achieved naturally with no shortcuts. But the trophies were never the point — what he’s always loved most is helping the person next to him fix their form, get a little stronger, and walk out feeling better than they walked in.
That’s the trainer he is today. Josh knows the gym can feel intimidating, especially if you’re starting later in life or coming back after time away, so his whole approach is built around making it the opposite of that. Expect patient coaching, real attention to doing things safely, and zero ego. Whether you’re after strength, better mobility, or just the confidence to move through your day without thinking twice, he’ll meet you exactly where you are and build from there.
Outside the gym, Josh is a full-time realtor here in Richmond, which means he spends his days getting to know people and the community he calls home. He’s a connector by nature — equally happy talking through your training goals or your favourite spot for coffee — and that same down-to-earth, people-first energy is what you’ll get every time you train with him.
ACE Certified Personal Trainer and TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor
I empower women and young athletes in a supportive and uplifting environment to discover their true strength both in the gym and in their daily lives
Hailey grew up playing any, and all sports but eventually settled into Ringette. She found her passion in the team aspect of the game and thrived with the competition! She has competed in the 2019 Canada Winter games as captain of the Ringette team and currently plays in the National Ringette League for the BC Thunder. Hailey loves to stay involved with her Ringette community and volunteers through coaching and running skill development sessions for teams.
Hailey is a recent UBC graduate with a degree in Kinesiology. She loves to learn and apply her education in the areas of injury prevention, strength and conditioning and rehabilitation and is excited to share this knowledge with individuals and young athletes to help them uncover their true potential.
During her time as an undergrad, Hailey worked as a student kinesiologist and gained invaluable and practical expertise with ICBC patients and other individuals with unique and varied fitness goals.
When Hailey is not at the rink, you can find her hanging out with her friends, travelling and eating all the pasta and sushi! She may also admit to the guilty pleasure of reality TV and specifically The Bachelor!
Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor
I help people feel like they have unlocked their inner superhero, focussing on strength and sculpting the body all while having fun.
No perm necessary. Inspired from a young age, Armando has lead his life in search of looking like a superhero from the cartoons, comics and wrestling shows he used to watch as a child. He has tried many forms of exercise before such as martial arts, soccer, and a brief stint in dance which he will not go in to – the ones that stuck were running and bodybuilding. Helped at first from age 9 by his father who was a former bodybuilder and wrestler himself, Armando had gotten the superhero shape and size – as well as worked his way into the thousand pound club before his mid twenties. Twenty-three inch arms, a particularly fond notch on his belt.
Unfortunately, being taught by a classic bodybuilder lead to a classic mindset, leading to classic injuries. Those coupled with a traumatic work injury, sent his fitness career and lifestyle back down to zero. Since then, he has learned the balance of rest and relaxation – as well as a healthy and injury preventative mindset in the gym. Since the gym has always been a part of his life, he has always been helping and offering advice to gym-goers both new and experienced. So when a handful of former gym-partners he taught became personal trainers, he then followed suit and acquired his ACE certification. Now officially paid to have fun and teach others aspiring to be better versions of themselves! If requested, he can list all of the injuries from top to bottom or inside-out.
When he is not in the gym, Armando enjoys getting his nerd on by reading comic books or playing video games – as well as Directing and Producing his own indie-films.
TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor, ACE Certified Personal Trainer, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Certified in Pilates and LES-MILLS
I help individuals build strength, confidence, and lasting fitness habits without feeling overwhelmed, so they can enjoy their journey and embrace a healthier, more fulfilling life.
Annie was born in Shanghai, China, and moved to Canada in 2008. With a Bachelor’s degree in Human Nutrition Science and years of experience as a clinical nutritionist, Annie discovered a passion for fitness that transformed both her career and her dedication to promoting overall wellness.
Her fitness journey is as diverse as it is inspiring. Annie has explored Muay Thai, functional training, yoga, Pilates, weightlifting, and dancing. Like many, she faced challenges staying consistent, but through perseverance and self-discovery, she learned how to make fitness an enjoyable and sustainable life habit instead of a chore.
In 2015, Annie decided to turn her passion into a full-time career. She earned certifications in ACE, NASM, Pilates, and LES-MILLS, and has since been empowering others as a group fitness instructor and personal trainer. Annie’s approach is rooted in the belief that “small, consistent improvements yield big results.”
Annie is committed to helping her clients achieve their goals by focusing on safety, consistency, and self-acceptance. Her mission is to help you find joy in your fitness journey—because when fitness becomes a habit, it becomes fun, rewarding, and life-changing.
Annie is excited to share her energy, expertise, and passion with the True Conditioning community. Join her for a class or personal training session and start your journey to lasting success!
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