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A free coached engine session, run, row, ski or bike, and coffee after. Every pace welcome, no membership needed.
- Sundays, 7:30am
- 278 East 1st Ave, Olympic Village
- Members, non-members, walk-runners, all welcome

CrossFit BC · Olympic Village, Vancouver
Vancouver's fitness community since 2008. Tap what you need, no guesswork, no intimidation, just a clear first step.
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No membership needed. Pick a date, show up, and see what a coached room actually feels like.
A free coached engine session, run, row, ski or bike, and coffee after. Every pace welcome, no membership needed.
If any of these sound like you, take a breath – you've already done the hardest part by showing up to read this.
Pick what fits today. You can always change lanes later – most people do.
Haven't trained in a while (or ever)? Start with 3 free classes and our beginner-friendly Foundations. We'll teach you the moves, set your pace, and get you confident.
Start My 3 Free ClassesTook weeks, months, or years off? You're not starting over, you're picking back up. We'll meet your body where it is today and rebuild from there, no judgment.
Restart With 3 Free ClassesYou want a guided, structured path with accountability. Personal coaching, group energy, and a plan built around your life. (Hint: this is what changes everything.)
Explore Hybrid CoachingIn Vancouver for a bit, or just exploring? Drop in for a coached class. $30, all levels welcome, no pressure to join.
Book a Drop-InRace-ready conditioning with a coach watching your reps. Whether it's your first race or your fifth, we'll get you to the start line strong.
See HYROX TrainingSome of our most consistent members are 50, 60, and beyond. Smart, scalable training that builds strength, balance, and energy for the long game.
See the 50+ PathwayWant a deeper read first?
Here's the real arc – no hype, just what we see again and again.
Meet your coach. Move slow. Get the form right. Zero ego, all curiosity.
Three classes feels normal. You start recognizing faces. The hard part stops being walking through the door.
Sleep is better. Energy is up. The weights you used last week feel lighter. (You're not imagining it.)
You've got a routine. You've got friends here. You've got proof you can do this. The rest takes care of itself.
By week 4, most people feel like a different person.
Real members. Real first-week nerves. Real wins.
Real beginners. Real classes.



"I'd never lifted a barbell. Foundations was small enough that I got real attention but not so small it felt awkward. Now Open Gym is my favourite hour of the day."
And honestly – why you don't need to.
"I'm not fit enough to start."
Nobody is. Fitness isn't the entry fee – it's the result. Every class scales to where you are today, not where Instagram says you should be.
"I don't know what I'm doing."
Good. That's literally why we're here. Every class is coached by a real human who watches your reps, gives you the right weight, and explains the why.
"I'll be the worst one in the room."
You won't. But even if you were? Nobody cares. The strongest people in our gym started exactly where you're standing, and they remember it.
"I'm too busy."
An hour, three times a week. That's it. Most members tell us this is the easiest hour of their day because someone else does the thinking.
"I've tried before and it didn't stick."
That's not a you problem – that's a system problem. Coaching, community, and a class on the calendar fix the willpower issue. Show up, we handle the rest.
They were nervous too. Here's what happened next.

How she found her people.
Marcela's Story
When Marcela first walked into the gym, she wasn't sure if it was for her. What she found was a coaching team that met her where she was and a community that became her second family.
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Stronger than she thought possible.
Gloria's Story
The stuff people actually ask before they walk in the door.
Nope. Honestly, that's the most common myth in fitness. We meet you where you are – every workout scales to your level, every rep is coachable, and your first month is about building the base, not breaking yourself.
Perfect. Most of our members started exactly there. Your first classes walk you through the movements at a pace that lets you actually learn them – no thrown-in-the-deep-end nonsense.
Show up 10 minutes early. Your coach introduces themselves, walks you through the workout, scales it to your level, and makes sure you leave feeling proud – not destroyed. About 60 minutes total.
Three times a week is the sweet spot for results. Two if you're easing in. More if you're hooked. We'll help you build a rhythm that fits your real life.
A water bottle, athletic clothes, and indoor training shoes. That's it. We'll provide the rest – including the high-fives. There are showers and proper change rooms if you're training before work, secure bike storage if you ride in, and parking nearby if you drive.
Tell your coach before class. We modify everything – knee stuff, back stuff, shoulder stuff, post-surgery, post-baby. Smart training around an injury beats sitting on the couch every time.
Drop-ins start at $30. Memberships scale based on how often you train and what kind of coaching you want. The simplest way: try 3 free classes first, then we'll talk options that fit your goals and budget.
Real coaching, every class. A community that actually knows your name. Programs built for grown-ups with real lives – not just 22-year-old athletes. We've been doing this in Vancouver since 2008.
Yes – because we don't expect you to keep up with anyone. The class structure is the same for everyone, but the weights, reps, and movements get scaled to you. Your only job is to beat yesterday's version of you.
Energy and sleep usually shift in week 1–2. Strength shows up around week 3–4. Visible body changes follow in months 2–3. The good news: you'll feel different before you look different – which is what actually keeps people coming back.
We're at 278 East 1st Avenue in Olympic Village, Vancouver, and parking is free. Five stalls marked CFBC in the lot next to the gym, plus free 2-hour street parking on the surrounding blocks. There's an e-bike stand right outside, and we're a 5-min walk from the Main Street–Science World SkyTrain.
We do both – and we have a Hybrid option that combines them. Personal training for the technique, group classes for the energy. Best of both worlds.
Yes. Life happens – travel, injury, work crunches. We'll work with you. No 12-month contracts that hold you hostage.
Absolutely. Some of our most consistent members are 50+, 60+, and beyond. We have programs designed specifically for the over-50 crowd, plus our regular classes scale beautifully.
Totally fine. Book a single drop-in for $30. No commitment, no follow-up sales pitch. If you love it, we'll talk options. If not, no hard feelings.
You don't need to wait until you're ready. You just need to start. We'll handle the rest from there.
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The first-timer's guide to HYROX. All 8 stations with current Open division loads, the RoxZone transitions, pacing, fueling, a pack list, and a race-morning timeline, so your first race feels controlled instead of a scramble. Built by the CrossFit BC coaching team.
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A five-pillar self-assessment from the Micro-Blue Zone Project: 30 checkpoints across movement, nutrition, belonging, recovery, and purpose, with small next steps you can start this week.
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How to protect muscle, fuel training, and keep your strength while losing weight on GLP-1 medications, from the CrossFit BC coaching team.
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A printable mobility card with our 5-minute daily routine and 10-minute strength-day prep, built around three movement patterns. Pin it on the fridge and repeat.
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A printable 90-day tracker to log recovery, strain, and sleep alongside your training so you can see what's actually moving the needle.
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A single-page printable reference for WHOOP beginners. Read Recovery, Strain, Sleep and the Journal at a glance, plus Coach Moose's top 10 mistakes to avoid. Pin it on the fridge.
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A printable decision tree that converts your daily WHOOP recovery score, plus the three overrides that beat it (sick, hurt, life), into a clear answer: hard session, dose reduction, Zone 2, or real rest. Companion to the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to WHOOP.
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Reference charts to convert distance and calories across the rower, bike, ski erg, and run so you can scale any workout to the machine you have.
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The questions to ask and the things to look for when you tour any gym, so you can find the right coaching, community, and facility fit.
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A MERGE Fitness workbook that walks you through a purpose audit, a vision that lands on a real calendar, and the story you tell about your work, then turns it into a 90-day rhythm you can actually run.
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A coach-built 4-week program of isometrics, heavy slow resistance, and eccentric loading to make your tendons stiffer, thicker, and less prone to nagging pain.
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An 18-page playbook on building a sustainable morning practice that anchors your training, recovery, focus, and long-term health. Backed by neuroscience, written for real life.
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A 10-page coach-built system for spotting burnout weeks before it lands. Four domains of warning signs, eight personal signals, a 0 to 24 daily risk score with four response protocols, and a printable weekly tracker.
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A 9-page coach-built system for making a habit automatic in 30 days. Six phases: start small, anchor it, engineer the environment, shift identity, plan the missed day, then lock the default. Includes a printable 30-day tracker.
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A printable one-page tool that tracks the four signals that actually predict long-term change: movement, sleep, energy, and mood. A shared language for members and coaches, built to reframe a tough week as data.
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A 17-page coach-built guide on beating procrastination using the same habit-stacking, 5-second rule, Pomodoro, and S.M.A.R.T. goal-setting principles we use to keep members showing up for years. Practical, no fluff, written for real life.
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A coach-built Sunday-prep system: three anchor proteins, one shopping list, one cook session, five meals. The plate formula and 7-day map our coaches actually use.
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A coach-built 7-night sleep reset with a 60-minute wind-down, a morning anchor, and a fillable 7-night log. Cinematic, fillable, and printer-friendly. Wave 1 glow-up.
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A coach-built 10-minute daily mobility reset. Five stations, a pre-class primer, recovery add-ons, and a fillable 7-day log. Cinematic Wave 1 glow-up, printer-friendly.
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Returning to fitness after a break, an injury, or a long pause? This 4-week ramp builds capacity before intensity, so you're still training in 12 weeks instead of quitting in 3.
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Everything you need to land in Vancouver and feel like a local: BC Place match logistics, transit from YVR, where to stay, the best hikes and beaches, where to eat, and how to actually train and recover during the tournament. Plus a $20.26 drop-in offer at CrossFit BC.
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A coach-built, phase-by-phase checklist for athletes, parents, and professionals who travel. Covers what to do before you go, on travel day, on the road, and during race or event week so a trip never costs you a training block.
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A coach-built guide to the Deadly Dozen: what the challenge is and how it differs from HYROX, the 12-labour Track format raced at Vancouver UBC 2026, the Solo, Pairs and Relay divisions, honest answers to pre-signup questions, and a simple 8 to 12 week build.
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A coach-built water and electrolyte playbook with a fillable daily tracker, sweat-and-salt self-audit, and the four levers we walk every new member through. Wave 1i cinematic glow-up.
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A coach-built 8-minute pre-training warm-up with a fillable weekly picker and 2-week log. The pre-training bookend to the 10-Minute Mobility Reset. Wave 1j cinematic glow-up.
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A coach-built recovery triage with the traffic-light call, a fillable 7-day recovery log, and a 6-question self-audit. Wave 2a cinematic build from the CFBC coaching team.
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A coach-built 7-day deload plan from the CrossFit BC coaching team. Readiness audit, full week template, and a return-to-load ramp. Wave 2b cinematic build.
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An evidence-based protein reference from the CrossFit BC coaching team. Daily target, per-meal split, plate builder, 7-day tracker, and a fillable 6-question self-audit. Wave 2b cinematic build.
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A no-fluff foam rolling reference from the CrossFit BC coaching team. The 5 rules, a 10-minute daily flow, 9 body-part cheats, a fillable weekly log, and a 6-question self-audit. Wave 2b cinematic build.
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A coach-built clinical-grade sleep guide covering deep sleep vs REM architecture, HRV trends, temperature/light/food timing, and shift-work and travel protocols. Includes a fillable Sleep Architecture Audit.
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A coach-built 10-minute follow-along mobility reset from the CrossFit BC coaching team. Six stations, a fillable 7-day log, and a self-audit. Wave 2c cinematic build.
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An evidence-based Zone 2 primer from the CrossFit BC coaching team. Find your number, feel the pace, and build the engine with a fillable 4-week ramp. Wave 2c cinematic build.
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A coach-built HRV and readiness primer from the CrossFit BC coaching team. How to measure it, read the trend, and use a Green/Yellow/Red rule to decide train, deload, or recover, plus a no-wearable readiness score and a fillable baseline audit.
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An evidence-based pre-training fueling reference from the CrossFit BC coaching team. The 3-2-1 rule, 10 boring foods that work, hydration, a fillable 7-day tracker, and a self-audit. Wave 2c cinematic build.
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A coach-built protein timing reference for HYROX athletes: pre, intra, and post windows, race-week loading, race-morning fueling, and a fillable Protein Timing Audit.
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A coach-built mindset reset from the CrossFit BC coaching team. Why motivation fails, the 2-minute floor for low days, the identity anchor, and the never-miss-twice rule.
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A coach-built identity playbook from the CrossFit BC team. Small votes, tent-pole scenes, language swaps, and a 4-week rehearsal calendar for hybrid athletes.
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A coach-built consistency reference from the CrossFit BC team. The floor / ceiling framework, the 20-minute rescue day, miss-recovery scripts, and a 12-week tracker.
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A coach-built weekly stress-load audit from the CrossFit BC team. Score four inputs (work, sleep, training, life), get a Green/Yellow/Red readiness rule, and know exactly when to train, autoregulate, or deload.
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A coach-built habit stacking blueprint from the CrossFit BC team. The After-X-I-Will-Y formula, three ready-to-run stacks (morning, gym, evening), and a 4-week rehearsal calendar.
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A coach-built HYROX pacing calculator from the CrossFit BC coaching team. Enter your goal finish time and get per-station targets, run splits, and mental cues per station. Interactive on the page plus a printable fillable PDF.
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A coach-built HYROX sled push mechanics reference from the CrossFit BC coaching team. The 30-45 degree body angle rule, step cadence cheat sheet, arm-lock cue, and a 4-drill weekly build. Fillable technique audit included.
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A coach-built 8-week Zone 2 progression for HYROX and CrossFit athletes from the CrossFit BC team. Find your number, dial the modality, and lay down the aerobic base that raises the ceiling on every metcon and race. Wave 4 cinematic build.
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A coach-built 6-week hybrid strength template from the CrossFit BC team. Two lifts per session, two sessions per week, one fillable log. Add real strength without stealing from your metcons or HYROX prep. Wave 4 cinematic build.
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The running side of your first HYROX, Deadly Dozen or hybrid race, week by week. Three runs a week with pacing and taper built in, plus a printable eight-week tracker. Free, from the CFBC coaching team.
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A coach-built 6-week protocol that trains the exact skill HYROX demands: running well after a station has already wrecked your legs. Fillable PDF, free, from the CFBC coaching team.
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A coach-built 4-week grip endurance protocol built around the farmer carry, sled pull, and DB station patterns that break most HYROX athletes first. Fillable PDF, free, from the CFBC coaching team.
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A coach-built 7-day taper protocol covering volume, sleep, carbs, mobility, and mindset the week before your HYROX. Fillable PDF, free, from the CFBC coaching team.
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The Power 9 Blue Zone habits, translated for a Vancouver hybrid athlete's week. A free 6-section fillable PDF with morning, midday, and evening anchors, a 7-day tracker, and the 90-day roll-in that compounds fastest. Wave 5 cinematic build from the CFBC coaching team.
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The nightly rhythm that turns 7 hours in bed into 15 extra healthy years. Twelve tactics, three anchors (morning/evening/bedroom), Vancouver adaptations for winter light and summer heat, a 7-night tracker, and the 30-day roll-in from the CFBC coaching team. Wave 5 cinematic build.
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Top-quartile VO2max is associated with a 500% reduction in all-cause mortality risk. This is the 12-week cardio blueprint from the CFBC coaching team: the 3-zone model, the Norwegian 4x4, a Vancouver-ready weekly template, a 12-week ramp, and a retest. Wave 5 cinematic build.
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Untrained adults lose 3 to 8% of lean muscle per decade after 30, and resistance training is what reverses it. The CFBC coaching team's 12-week strength blueprint: the minimum effective dose, the 4 lifts that carry the load, a weekly template, and a 5-rep-max retest.
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Chronic stress accelerates biological aging, and resilience is trainable. This free 7-page blueprint is the CFBC coaching team's 8-week protocol: the 5 daily levers (breath, sleep, movement, connection, sunlight), a 5-minute morning anchor, and a fillable weekly stress audit.
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After 50, one fall changes everything, and bone density plus balance are trainable together in a small daily window. This free 7-page blueprint is the CFBC coaching team's 12-week protocol: 3 loading rules, 6 balance drills, a weekly template, a self-test battery, and a log.
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Most people chase sleep hacks when the real problem is a body clock running on the wrong schedule. This free 7-page checklist is the CFBC coaching team's circadian reset: morning light targets, evening light rules, a consistent anchor time, a caffeine and food timing window, and a shift-work and travel section.
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Stress is rarely one big event. It is twelve small habits stacked on top of each other, most of which feel productive. This free 7-page audit names each one, explains the physiological cost in plain language, gives you a same-day swap, and finishes with a scoring sheet so you know which three to fix first.
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Busy weeks do not need a new program, they need a floor you never drop below. This free 6-page blueprint gives you the 15-minute training template, the 15-minute nutrition prep block, the 15-minute recovery reset, and a weekly planner to place all three inside a real schedule.
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