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Madlab School of Fitness Playing the long game since 2004.

10/13/2026

Gary’s allowed to stay.

10/07/2026

A gym can say it’ll help you get fit.

The better question is: fit for what?

If your goal is to compete at fitness, Madlab probably isn’t the place for you.

If you want to use your fitness to take on events, activities, sports, adventures, or simply more of what life throws at you; that’s much more our speed.

Those might sound like similar goals, but how you train for them can look very different.

So when you’re looking for a gym or a coach, don’t just ask whether they can help you reach your goals.

Ask enough questions to understand how they’ll help you get there.

10/05/2026

What you need from fitness at 30 probably won’t be what you need at 40.

Jobs change. Kids come along. Priorities shift and time gets tighter. The thing that once fit easily into your life might suddenly take a lot more work to maintain.

That’s part of playing the long game.

The goal isn’t to find one perfect training plan and follow it forever. It’s to have a coach and a process that can grow and change with you.

09/27/2026

Sometimes the rest is part of the rep.

You’ll see a forced reset between deadlifts in this cycle. Put the weight down, stand up, breathe, then set yourself up again.

That pause isn’t there to make the set easier.

It gives you another chance to practise your setup before every rep, rather than hanging onto the weight and rushing into the next one.

More resets. More practice. More opportunities to develop.

So when you see the dots, take the rest.

09/25/2026

Simple movement. Lots going on.

With the seesaw floor press, one dumbbell is coming down as the other is going up; and the goal is to control both sides of that exchange.

That means the arm on the way down is working just as deliberately as the arm doing the pressing.

You don’t get extra credit for moving faster.

Find a load you can control, keep the dumbbells moving together, and make every part of the rep intentional.

If the coordination disappears, slow it down.

09/21/2026

Harder doesn’t always mean better.

With the Copenhagen plank, getting your hips higher or your bottom leg off the floor might make the exercise look more advanced, but that’s not really the point.

We want you creating as much useful tension as you can through the position while staying stacked, breathing and keeping it comfortable at the knee.

Sometimes that means both legs stay down.
Other times the bottom knee stays down.
And maybe, just maybe, you’re ready to lift the whole thing.

Pick the position where you can actually do the work.

09/18/2026

Not every set needs to be a max effort.

For our pulling work this cycle, the earlier sets give you a chance to warm up, build through your progressions and figure out what you’ve got that day.

Then we want your best effort on the last one.

That might mean sticking with the same variation or adjusting it so you can keep pulling.

Either way, the goal is the same: finish with a set where you genuinely don’t have another good rep left.

Build to it. Then find out what you’ve got.

09/17/2026

Same training goal. Different ways to get there.

In the upcoming cycle, we’re using step count for our walking lunges rather than prescribing a set distance. Different bodies cover ground differently, so the number of steps gives us a more useful target.

How you take those steps can change too.

Move continuously with a weight you can carry smoothly, or slow things down as the load gets heavier.

Keep moving forward and find a load that actually makes those steps valuable, rather trying to finish first.

09/08/2026

The ambassador of fun has arrived!

The Madlab Member Appreciation BBQ is this Saturday from 11:30'ish to 3:00 pm at Madlab.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

09/07/2026

A good training program shouldn’t feel like a new collection of random exercises every week.

Our six-week cycles are built to work as a whole; different movement patterns, different demands, and enough balance across the body to give people useful things to improve.

And the cycle doesn’t end in isolation.

What we work on now helps set up what comes next.

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1980 Clark Drive
Vancouver, BC
V5N0A9

Opening Hours

Monday 5:45am - 8:30pm
Tuesday 5:45am - 8:30pm
Wednesday 5:45am - 8:30pm
Thursday 5:45am - 8:30pm
Friday 5:45am - 6:15pm
Saturday 8am - 2:30pm
Sunday 9:30am - 1pm

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