Our Team - True Conditioning

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Sophie Manfredi

Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor, PPSC Certification & Nutrition Coach PNL2

My Mission

I help women lose weight and keep it off without feeling like they’re on a diet

About Me

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. 


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Tara Budden

Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor, PPSC Certification & Nutrition Coach PNL1

My Mission

I help women discover their strength and confidence in the gym to carry into everyday life

About Me

Tara has always lived a very active lifestyle, growing up in a hockey family and playing high level hockey herself. Introduced to high performance team training at a young age sparked Tara’s love of group fitness, where coaches and teammates both supported and challenged her to excel. 

Starting as a client at True Conditioning over 2 years ago, Tara was looking to build muscle definition and strength. From the start, she fell in love with the fun atmosphere of community and the professionalism of the trainers – so much so that she decided to become a personal trainer herself. After completing her ACE certification, Tara joined the True Conditioning team where she is happily teaching classes and training one-on-one with clients in her own style of tough love.

Whether it’s training for sports, injury recovery, or to be strong and functional for everyday life, Tara is passionate about connecting with her clients, understanding their personal goals and using the power of fitness and nutrition to help them achieve those goals. In her spare time, Tara can be found walking her three doggies around town, hiking local trails, eating sushi or curled up with a good show… and her doggies. 


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Jasmin Wolfe

Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor, & PPSC Certification

My Mission

I work with individuals to help keep their mind as strong as their bodies can be. Your strongest muscle is your brain!

About Me

Former high calibre competitive dancer and provincial volleyball player, Jasmin has always had a love and passion for movement and sports. She coached her highschool dance team as well as danced through her Academy from the ages of 3-18. After graduating from her academy, from 2006-2009, Jasmin co-created a successful hip hop company that performed all over the West Coast including The United States. During this time, she also danced with 3 hip hop companies, including a salsa company for many years.

Jasmin is always up for adding a little extra spice to her life. She made the choice to leave dance to go back to school for both Script Supervising and Special Makeup Effect. Having a successful career in Film, she found it wasn’t where her passion truly lies and felt the need to go out into the world to explore more of it. She spent 3 months backpacking through 5 countries in South America. Hiking up the back mountains in Argentina, Torres del Paine in Chile, to spending time watching glaciers and visiting the salt flats in Bolivia. Eventually making her way back home.

When she got back into fitness, she found True Conditioning through a friend and fell madly in love. She felt as though she was in the right place at the right time. Always knowing that she was and still is a massive cheerleader in helping and motivating people to be the best they can be, she knew that it was her calling to become a Personal Trainer.

After completing her  NASM  Personal Training Certificate, Jasmin is looking forward to working with individuals to achieve their personal health, wellness and fitness goals.
Jasmin is an advocate for mental health and intends to work hard to help keep your mind strong, even through the toughest of times. She leads with love and compassion.
When Jasmin is not training, you can find her either hiking in the mountains or at the beach with her pup. Nothing beats a good beach day with your pup!


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Katrina Eden

Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor, PPSC Certification & Nutrition Coach PNL1

My Mission

I teach clients to foster a strong sense of self through personalized training programs that focus on finding new strengths

About Me

Katrina’s passion for fitness began in the gym and built outward to hiking, running and a simple desire to keep moving!  As a girl who lacked the coordination to play sports, Katrina has spent her fitness career learning to utilize specific movement patterns and lifts to gain better spatial awareness and overall stability. Whether your goals are health, correctional or aesthetically driven, Katrina is well equipped with skills to make your journey seamless. She believes in teamwork and can be counted on to be there to support you throughout the process and always available for guidance and direction.

Having used fitness as a tool to better her mental and physical well-being, she is eager to help her clients along the path to health – in every aspect.


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Christina Sequeira

Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer & PPSC Certification

My Mission

I strive to build confidence in individuals through knowledge of movement mechanics and exercise physiology, so fitness gains can be achieved while at the gym AND in daily life.

About Me

Christina’s love for fitness started at a young age owing to her mother who always prioritized health and fitness with family and her grandmother with whom she shared a close bond. While seeing her grandmother’s body decline in strength and mobility with age, she knew health and fitness for older adults was her calling.

Born and raised in Vancouver, now living in Richmond, Christina has had the opportunity to make an impact on fitness programs in the lower mainland. During her former employment at UBC working for the School of Kinesiology, she, not only, developed and delivered tailored and group exercise programs to sedentary and aging population groups, she also collaborated with private and public organizations to facilitate the development of community-based rehabilitation, disease prevention, fall prevention and weight management programs.

Christina is a certified clinical exercise physiologist and a practicing member of the BC Association of Kinesiologists. She graduated from UBC with a Master’s degree in Kinesiology. With years of experience working with sedentary adults, mature athletes, aging and clinical populations with arthritis, cardiovascular, pulmonary and metabolic disease, she has helped novice and experienced clients reach strength and conditioning goals in a safe, timely and efficient manner. Her approach to fitness and wellness involves the establishment of outcome measures to help guide success, all while educating clients every step of the way throughout the transformation process.

In Christina’s spare time, she can be found on a volleyball court playing recreationally or coaching teams at both school and club levels. When she is not coaching, she is working on special projects volunteering with her family who believes in giving back to the community to reduce social isolation by building connections.


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Faline Stewart

ACE Certified Personal Trainer and TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor

My Mission

I specialize in working with clients who are eager to prioritize their physical and mental health. I am dedicated to helping them achieve their athletic goals, while minimizing the risk of injury and supporting them in their recovery

About Me

Since a young age, Faline has loved variety and tying different activities. Growing up in Yellowknife, she started dancing and skating as a child and moved on to choreography and theatre in high school. After a brief acting stint in Vancouver, Faline trained as a Class One truck driver. Even though she worked 60+ hours/week, she still made her fitness a priority, often hitting the gym at 5am to fit it in.

In her quest for variety in life as well as her desire to give back, Faline joined a search and rescue crew and began travelling the world. After an accident that resulted in being off work for 4 months, she became depressed and unmotivated, but eventually found solace and strength in a community focused fitness studio. She began taking classes and found her passion once again, winning a fitness contest and completing her first 10km run. After spending a year regaining her strength and working towards pain free training, Faline became a personal trainer in the hopes of guiding others towards a healthy and pain free fitness journey.

Faline is an accomplished scuba diver, a stand in actor, a novice skateboarder, and an avid hiker amongst many other accomplishments! She is not scared to try new things and training with Faline will always be a fun and interesting adventure!


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Hailey Takasaki

ACE Certified Personal Trainer and TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor

My Mission

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

About Me

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! 


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Kate Balen

Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Qualified Group Fitness Instructor, & Nutrition Coach PNL1, Massage Therapist (Awaiting Graduation)

My Mission

I help people work towards embracing their strength and move away from the idea that lifting weights makes you bulky.

About Me

Former competitive swimmer, tuned powerlifter and Olympic Weightlifter, Kate has a passion for weightlifting, nutrition and exercise. She recently completed her Personal Training certificate and her Nutrition Coaching certification. With the goal to continue her education in fitness Kate has joined True Conditioning to inspire others to lead a healthy lifestyle by finding a style of training they love.

After becoming more competitive in olympic weightlifting, Kate decided to make a change in her nutrition and worked with True Conditioning to lose over 20 lbs in order to qualify for the 75kg weight class where she then went on to qualify for Provincials. She is excited to share her new found knowledge and experience with others in order to help women find a healthy balance with food and feel comfortable in their body.
When Kate is not training, or sneaking in additional squats with her equally as strong boyfriend and trainer Andy, she can be found at Tacofino, hiking one of Vancouver’s many beautiful mountains, trying new recipes, or doing her best to not to think about donuts.


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