09/30/2026
“OMG, guess what?! The ladies and I are going to Mexico in December!” 🌴🥹
One of our members came up to me yesterday SO excited to tell me this.
And to most people, it might just sound like…
Okay, cool! Have the best trip! 😂
But me?
My cheeks literally hurt from smiling so big.
Because I knew what that sentence actually meant.
I looked at her and said, “Do you know why this makes me so happy?”
I remember when you first walked through our doors a few years ago.
You were working from home. You were in your own little bubble. You didn’t really feel like you had a community or a group of friends around you.
And now…
“The ladies and I are going to Mexico.” 🥹
THE LADIES. 😭💛
Women she met here.
Women she’s worked out beside, laughed with, cheered on and spent countless mornings with.
And somewhere along the way, they became so much more than the people she works out with.
They became her friends.
But then she reminded me of something that made this whole thing even more special…
When she first decided she wanted to try out our studio, she was actually in Mexico. 🌴
She called from her hotel room and told us she wanted to get stronger… but that wasn’t the only reason she was looking for a gym.
She was new to St. Albert. She didn’t really know anyone. She was working from home and knew that staying home or going for walks by herself wasn’t going to help her find the community she was looking for.
She wanted to find her people.
She had no idea what that would end up looking like.
And now, a few years later…
She’s going back to Mexico.
With the people she found here. 😭😭💛
COME ON.
Talk about a full-circle moment. 🥹
THAT is the stuff that fills my cup.
Of course I love watching our members get stronger.
I love watching them hit milestones, build confidence, improve their health and do things they never thought they could do.
But this?
This is pretty special too.
Because sometimes you walk into a gym looking for a place to work out… and somehow, along the way, you find people you get to do life with. 💛
And apparently, sometimes the story starts in Mexico…
and brings you all the way back there together. 😂🌴
This is Thrive.