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Empower Fitness for Every Body Proud to be 100% 🇨🇦 owned and operated 🍁

We're here to empower you with group fitness classes, personal training, nutrition coaching, youth programs from our bright, welcoming gym in West Point Grey, Vancouver, BC.

Progress worth celebrating 🔔
10/12/2026

Progress worth celebrating 🔔

10/11/2026

Come join the fun today! Book your No Sweat Intro today through the link in our bio ➡️

10/11/2026

A new week. Seven more chances to get stronger, fitter and more capable. 💪

Expect a solid mix of strength, conditioning and skill work this week—plus a date with a CrossFit classic: **Nancy**. 👀

See more details on the blog (link in bio).

Want to get stronger, improve your fitness and train with a supportive community?

**Come train with us. Book a free No Sweat Intro and let’s talk about your goals.** 🔥
https://empowereverybody.com/book-now

10/11/2026

When something hurts, our first instinct is often simple: stop moving and rest.

But recovery isn’t always that straightforward.

In this week’s Weekly Wisdom, WOD Father explores how appropriately chosen movement and progressive loading can play a role in recovery and why complete inactivity isn’t necessarily the answer for every injury.
The important word is appropriate.

This isn’t about ignoring pain or pushing through an injury. Sharp, worsening or escalating pain is a reason to stop and reassess. It’s about finding movement that your body can tolerate and gradually rebuilding from there.
Sometimes you can’t train the way you normally would.

That doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t move at all.
Modify. Move. Rebuild.

👉 Check out the Empower blog for Weekly Wisdom #63: Rest After an Injury? Why Movement May Speed Recovery.

10/10/2026

A little more from our Holiday Judo session 🥋

Sometimes the best training sessions are the simple ones: a small group, some new skills to work on, and good people to practice with.

It was great to see everyone learning, moving, challenging each other and having some fun on the mats.

Thanks again to the crew who spent part of their holiday Wednesday training with us. 💙

Good training. Good people. Great way to spend an afternoon.

Ace celebrating that new PB feeling 🔔👏
10/10/2026

Ace celebrating that new PB feeling 🔔👏

10/09/2026

🏋️ The latest strength training research confirms something we've believed for a long time: Consistency beats complexity.

The American College of Sports Medicine has updated its resistance training guidelines for the first time since 2009. And the findings might surprise you.

You don't need fancy equipment, complicated programming, or endless sets to build strength and improve your fitness.

But there's another finding that deserves attention: the importance of power and movement speed, especially as we age.

In this week's Weekly Wisdom, WOD Father breaks down the new guidelines, what they mean for your training, and where he thinks the science is headed next.

👉 Read the full article: https://empowereverybody.com/post/2026-strength-training-guidelines

10/09/2026

Wednesday looked a little different last week. 🥋

A small crew came together at Empower for a special holiday Judo session and it turned into a pretty great afternoon of learning, moving and training together.

A chance to work on technique, try something different and spend some time on the mats with good people. 💪

Thanks to everyone who came out and made this one-off session such a fun one!

A little gym TLC, powered by the Empower crew. 💙The platforms were due for a refresh, so naturally we turned re-taping t...
10/08/2026

A little gym TLC, powered by the Empower crew. 💙

The platforms were due for a refresh, so naturally we turned re-taping them into a team activity 😄

A huge thank you to everyone who rolled up their sleeves, grabbed some tape, and helped get the gym looking sharp again.

It takes a community to build a great gym - and apparently, to keep the platforms looking good too 💪

Many hands make light work.

10/07/2026

Getting fit and living fit are two different things.

Getting started might take structure, effort and a little more intention. But the goal isn’t to spend the rest of your life relying on motivation or pushing through punishing workouts.

Over time, movement can simply become part of how you live.
You train consistently. You walk more. You lift heavy things. You take rest days. You miss a workout sometimes—and come back for the next one.
Because fitness isn’t a temporary project. It’s something you build into your life.

And as we get older, that sustainability matters. The goal isn’t to train more extremely. It’s to keep building the strength, mobility and capacity that allow us to keep doing the things we love.

You don’t need to be perfect. You need something you can keep doing.

👉 Read WOD Father’s Words: 32 Again: Getting Fit vs. Living Fit on the Empower blog.

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235-2083 Alma Street
Vancouver, BC

Opening Hours

Monday 5am - 9pm
Tuesday 5am - 9pm
Wednesday 5am - 9pm
Thursday 5am - 9pm
Friday 5am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 12pm
Sunday 8am - 12pm
5pm - 6pm

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