- – Address: 209, 18 Arbour Lake way N.W. (Arbour Lake Centre).

– - Services offered: An exclusive but very friendly adult fitness club with one-on-one and group personal training programs to suit your individual needs, daily drop-in fitness classes, state-of-the-art Nautilus Nitro plus equipment, plus a juice, cappuccino and snack bar.

– - Regular classes include hatha yoga, benderball, step, cycling, boot camps, rock hard abs and core and new Pilates reformer training.

– - Specialty: A small, community gym with personable staff. The professionals at The Fitness Refinery will analyze your health and fitness level, and design an individualized program for your body type to help you achieve your specific goals.

– - Fitness tips: “Over my 15 years as a physiotherapist, I’ve heard all of the best excuses for not exercising and I’ve even come up with a few good ones myself!” says Pamela Klombies, program director for The Fitness Refinery. “The people who impress me are the ones who are really sick but they work hard every week with very few excuses. there are people who have various physical injuries and ailments — you’d think they’d have every excuse in the book — and yet they show up for classes and training sessions with enthusiasm.

“Their motivation is intrinsic — to be healthy and to gain function throughout their daily lives — so that their quality of life is the best that it can be. Those are the people who would love to have just the normal obstacles to exercising that the rest of us have.”

– - Owner: Boston Lee-Wing.

– - Contact information: 403-294-0102; fitnessrefinery.ca.

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