CrossFit Canuck Coaches

CO-OWNER / PROGRAM DIRECTOR / HEAD COACH My love affair with CrossFit began in 2010 when I first walked through the doors of CrossFit Pickering.  As a personal trainer, Phys. Ed. Teacher, and football player, I felt that I had a good level of physical fitness. As I...

CO-OWNER / BUSINESS MANAGER I spent 13 years working in the investment industry.  Starting out as an Investment Analyst with Mercer Investment Consulting and most recently spent 7 years as a Futures Trader with Mapleridge Capital Corporation. I have always been...

COACH My passion for fitness started way before CrossFit. Growing up around older siblings and cousins that were mainly male brought my competitive nature out at a very young age, boys will be boys. Through high school I continued to take my talents through multiple...

COACH Sport entered my life at a young age with skating and I would grow to eventually compete at a provincial and national level on a precision team; I loved the team competition! Also, growing up in a hospitality family, food was a huge component in my world. In...

COACH My affinity for fitness began at an early age. I performed a nightly routine with cement filled dumbbells while I was still in elementary school. When in high school, my dad gave me Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding as a birthday...

COACH This journey started by accident after hitting the never ending plateau at the gym. Stuck in the same place, but working out 4-5 days a week. By a lucky chance a coworker told me that some of her friends were starting a CrossFit gym and I should try it. It took...

COACH Growing up, sports were part of my life at every turn. I always came back to my true passion - running. I competed and trained at a wide range of distances all the way up to marathon, and at various levels, including provincially. After an accident a few years...

COACH My love for an athletic-based lifestyle started early on. Once I entered the workforce, it became challenging to stay active and fit, especially with long commutes and sedentary office work. I made some lifestyle changes and I was able to get back into action! I...

POWERLIFTING COACH  I had always been an athletic person, playing almost every sport I could from elementary through to high school. Unfortunately, when college became a priority in my life, movement did not. I gained a significant amount of weight through my first...

COACH What is your biggest contribution as a Coach? Experience with success and failures. I've gone through lots of ups and downs as an athlete. CrossFit never came natural to me. I couldn't do a pull-up or even fathom going upside down on a wall. I want to share my...

COACH I found CrossFit through one of my older cousins, who had been using it to stay in shape for her firefighting career. At the age of 16, I was inspired by the strength and stature of the female athletes in the sport. I was awestruck adn immediately began to train...