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Kazam Gymnastics is a guide to adult gymnastics training and optimizing long-term performance. Alex Macinnis - Founder of Alexkazam Gymnastics.

Born in Prince Edward Island, MacInnis grew up like most kids in Canada being surrounded by a passion of hockey and baseball. But even at the young age of 6, MacInnis was always drawn to watching the strong men of gymnastics seemingly fly through the air on his TV screen and decided that’s where he wanted to hang his heart. After years of training upward of 15-20 hours every week, MacInnis became a leading athlete for gymnastics on PEI, competing at his first Canada Winter Games in 2003 and moving forward to represent his province at 7 Canadian National Championships. Viewed as “one of the strongest, fittest and most flexible” gymnasts in PEI history, MacInnis used these skills to earn a spot as the first PEI gymnast to ever compete in event finals on pommel horse at National Championships. In 2011, MacInnis retired from competitive gymnastics and started coaching recreational gymnasts ranging in ages from 4-60 as well as competitive National level gymnasts. His passion for working with others and helping them improve their skills made for a natural transition as he pursued a career as a youth counsellor. Studying at Holland College, he moved to Ottawa to expand his knowledge and began working with high risk and troubled youth. Now, as founder of “Alexkazam Gymnastics” MacInnis has combined his gymnastics skills and coaching experience to form a unique blend of gymnastics and crossfit. Having trained and coached with some of Canada’s top Crossfit athletes at Crossfit NCR, he continues to grow as a coach and learning from other perspectives and coaching styles from around the world.

09/30/2026

🎉 100 CLASSES FOR MATTHEW SIA!

Shoutout to Matthew one of our newest Kazamers for recently hitting 100 classes. Shoutout to Matthew Sia and all the other members reaching major class milestones this month. 💪

Before joining Kazam, Matt focused on streetlifting which is primarily weighted pull-ups and dips. That gave him a strong foundation to begin working toward his long-term goals: the planche and full front lever.

Matt started with our onboarding program to dial in his movement and skills. This gave him an accelerated, informative starting point and the specific tools needed to build upon the strength he already had.

With that strength already in place, skills like muscle-ups and back lever came pretty quickly once we dialled in the technique.

Now, he’s well on his way to crushing his goals and the Kazam skills we’ve set out for him. He’s also on a mission to help bring back Level 3 Strength! 👀

Two important takeaways:

🔥 Private Coaching through one of our Onboarding programs meets you where you’re at and helps you climb higher, faster. Everyone benefits from having a coach.

🔥 Strong pull-ups and dips will create a powerful foundation for all things gymnastics and calisthenics. Progressively loading these 2 movements over a long period of time will give you so many free gains.

Congratulations on 100 classes, Matt! 👏

09/19/2026

Happy Birthday to Coach Vanessa! 🎉

Vanessa LaScala | Fitness Coach has been a huge part of the Kazam community over the past 2 years, teaching classes, coaching private sessions, and becoming one of the familiar faces you’ll find around the gym almost every day.

Our members love her, and we’re incredibly lucky to have her as such a big part of Team Kazam and everything we’re continuing to build.

And if you can’t find her at Kazam… there’s a good chance she’s at the pub on Friday night belting out karaoke after a long week of teaching. 🎤

Swipe for the full Vanessa experience, dancing, birthday pull-ups, and of course, a birthday backflip.

Happy Birthday, Vanessa!

09/01/2026

You officially have no excuses. 🙊🤸🏻

Starting September 7th, we’re adding 15 NEW classes to the Kazam schedule!

Huge shoutout to our growing and amazing team of coaches for making this expansion possible. 🔥

With more mornings, noons, evenings AND weekends, you have more opportunities than ever to build a well-rounded gymnastics training week around your schedule and your goals.

Train like a gymnast. Build incredible strength, move better than ever, and learn awesome skills. 🤸🏻🔥

New schedule starts September 7th.

Swipe 👉 to see what’s new!

06/24/2026

💯 100 Classes Strong 💯

A huge shoutout to Dawn for hitting her 100 Class Milestone today!

Her proudest accomplishment isn’t the 100 classes, it’s having the courage to walk through our doors 6 months ago and get started.

Since then, she’s become one of our most consistent members, attending 3–6 classes per week, building confidence in her handstands, overcoming mental barriers, and falling in love with the process.

Dawn shared how grateful she is for the support of our coaches, community, weekly check-ins, and encouragement along the way.

We’re incredibly proud of you, Dawn. Here’s to the next 100 classes and all the awesome things ahead! 💪🏻🎉

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06/17/2026

Some random OG tumbling videos!

We’re excited to be expanding the schedule and growing the team this summer. We’ve added a tumbling level 2 class to the weekly schedule:

Thursdays @ 8:30pm

If you’re not sure if you’re ready for level 2 tumbling, please refer to the class goals and prerequisites listed on the website for this class.

Tumbling is a high demand high impact class on the body. You should be excelling in the tumbling level 1 classes as well as the rest of the program before attending this class. 🐒🤸🏻💪🏻

Respect your body and respect the process.

The amazing thing is we’ve had many adults without gymnastics experience that make their way to this class over the years and it’s a huge reward after the work is done.

If you’re not sure if you’re ready for level 2 tumbling, reach out to a tumbling coach. 🙌🏻

And come back one day soon Madeline! We miss you 👊🏻 Madeleine

06/05/2026

Coach Steven making some serious progress with his straddle press work😎

What you don’t see is the hundreds of hours behind these few reps with the consistent dedication to his training!

The coolest part isn’t that Steven can handstand but it’s that he’s still showing up every week focused on getting better, rather than chasing the shiny objects. The same mindset he brings to his own training is what he brings to every class he coaches.

At Kazam, we’re big believers that coaches should lead from the front. And has some skin in the game!

Drop a 👏 for Coach Steven, our Coach of the Month!

05/12/2026

🌷 KAZAM TULIP FESTIVAL HANG 🌷

One of our favourite yearly traditions is back 😎

An opportunity to get out of the gym, enjoy the sunshine, build community, hang with new friends, and of course… do some handstands in the tulips.

Whether you’ve been at Kazam for years or just recently joined, everyone is welcome. Bring a friend, bring a snack, bring your kids, and come enjoy a chill afternoon with the community outside the gym walls.

📍 Dow’s Lake — Meeting at The Man with Two Hats
🗓 Monday, May 18th
⏰ 1–4 PM

Looking forward to another awesome day together 🌷🤸

05/01/2026

Three handstand tuck variations all with different purposes and areas of focus. 🧐

1. Tucked Handstand - Head In
2. Tucked Handstand - Deep
3. Tucked Handstand - Bendy

Each one of these shapes have their own challenges and will expose different weaknesses in the shoulders!

The goal at this level of training is to continue finding joy in the training, playing with different elements, while also continuing to work the weak link areas. That’s how we progress!

Very impressive work from the HS3 students at KAZAM 🤸🏻🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♂️

04/14/2026

Shoutout all the big milestones coming through the past few weeks! (Sorry we didn’t get a picture of everyone, but a great excuse to get to that next benchmark 😎)

Phoebe 100
Kellie - 250
Claire-Isabelle -250

Not seeing in picture
Robin Grant - 250
Jason Butler - 100
Sima - 100

Everyone class counts. A little better every time! Keep up the great work everyone!

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Ottawa, ON

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https://www.kazamgymnastics.com/

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