LIVE WELL FOUNDING MEMBER REFLECTS ON HIS JOURNEY AT LIVE WELL The bells rang and the room was full of beaming smiles as White Rock LIVE WELL founding member Sam Sarophm celebrated his 1000th workout, with former employees coming home to honor his incredible accomplishment. Sam was the third member to walk in the door in 2011, and has been coming to his bi-weekly exercise ...

It is becoming more likely you will have a person with diabetes in your studio, fitness class, or as a personal training client. In fact, Diabetes Canada recently reported that 640 Canadians are diagnosed with Diabetes each day – one person every six minutes. It is National Diabetes Awareness month and as fitness professionals we need to be educated and informed about the c...

For Barry, exercise is the gift of life. The retired teacher had his first heart attack 20 years ago. The second came only a week later. He then had a third heart attack eight and a half years ago. THAT GOT MY ATTENTION “The third heart attack got my attention, and I retired from my 33-year career in education,” says Barry, who was not only a teacher and reading specialis...

BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR GAINS MORE THAN STRENGTH AFTER TREATMENT When she started at LIVE WELL, New Westminster member Linda believed she would go in for a few sessions, learn techniques, get a program and then take the tips she received back to her condo gym to do our own. She didn’t think she would be at LIVE WELL after six months! She had no idea she would find so much su...