Visit Hot Mess Fitness
Address: 112-20171 92A Ave, Langley, BC (Walnut Grove, one block behind the Sportsplex and Langley Cineplex)
Hours: Small-group sessions run through the week, starting as early as 5:15 am. See the schedule on the website.
Email: hello@hotmessfitness.ca
Website: hotmessfitness.ca
Good to know: New members start by booking a chat and tour on the website. The studio's starter program runs 13 weeks.
Run by: Kat and Jen
Done with the perfect facade
Kat and Jen got tired of the fitness they saw online. “After suffering at the hands of toxic Instagram fitness influencers for far too long we wanted to show the truth of what getting fit actually looks like when you are dealing with real life,” they write on the studio's About page.
Real life, for them, is busy. “Between our 5 kids, 2 husbands and too many pets we committed what little hours remained to create a fitness community that dropped the perfect facade and embraced the messiness of life.”
That community is Hot Mess Fitness, a small-group training studio in Walnut Grove. It's built for women, and especially for women in midlife.
Strong over skinny
The studio's beliefs are posted in capital letters on the About page, which feels right. “We believe in strong over skinny,” one reads. Another: “We believe that if we can get fit, anyone can.”
Kat and Jen also say they're “Fuelled by caffeine and humour,” and the site backs that up. On the Get Started page, a prospective member is told to “chug back the last of that cold coffee” and get going.
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“We believe in strong over skinny.”
Kat and Jen, on the Hot Mess Fitness website
Small groups and early starts
Hot Mess runs small-group personal training. New members usually begin with a 13-week starter program, which the studio says will build strength and cardio by the end of that first “season.” Sessions start as early as 5:15 in the morning and run into the evening.
The coaching leans into what changes after 40. The website talks about “wacky hormones” and perimenopause without whispering, and it pitches lifting weights to women who haven't been in a gym for a while.
One member put it this way in a testimonial on the studio's site: “the small groups mean tons of one-on-one attention and honestly, workouts have never been this fun.”
Zero bros
The home page is blunt about who the studio isn't for. “Zero bros, zero crop-top competition, zero judgment,” it promises. “Most gyms are just not made for us anymore.”
Messy buns are welcome too. The website says so more than once.
To try it, book a chat and tour through hotmessfitness.ca or email hello@hotmessfitness.ca. The studio is one block behind the Sportsplex and Langley Cineplex, at 112-20171 92A Avenue.
Photos: Hot Mess Fitness.
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