The StoryWe built
We built
the thing
we needed.
A training community in Metro Vancouver where the coaching is real, the sessions are free, and the standard is genuinely high.
There are six heart rate training zones. Zone 1 is a walk. Zone 4 is a hard tempo run. Zone 6 is the one above the official scale. It's where your cardiovascular system is working at its absolute ceiling. Uncomfortable. Unsustainable. And completely necessary.
It's the zone where adaptation actually happens. The place where your body is forced to change because it has no other choice. You can't live there. But you have to visit it. Regularly. Intentionally. With enough structure to come back and do it again.
Zone 6 isn't motivational language. It's a physiological fact. The name is a commitment: this is what we're here to do.
“A gym needs walls.
We train in car parks,
ovals, and hills across
Metro Vancouver.”
A new neighbourhood. A new training ground.
Ed and Justin were competitive athletes who couldn't find training that matched the way they actually thought about fitness. Every program they came across was either too commercial, too generic, or too isolated. Built around selling memberships, not developing athletes.
The best training they experienced was always somewhere between a team sport and a coaching relationship. Science-backed, community-driven, and genuinely difficult. The kind of session where the person next to you makes you better just by showing up.
So in 2023, they started running free sessions in public spaces across Vancouver. No gym. No fee. No waiver. No ego. Just the two of them, a program, and whoever showed up.
The sessions got harder. The community got bigger. And HYROX (the hybrid fitness race that combines running and functional movements) became the competitive anchor that gave the whole thing a measurable direction.
We don't have walls or a reception desk. The city is our training ground.
Classes follow a script. We adapt to you: how you move, how you recover, what you're training towards.
Generic templates get generic results. Everything here is built around who you actually are.
A standard. A crew. A decision.
Every set, every rep, every phase has a reason. You should understand your training, not just execute it. An athlete who knows why adapts faster, executes better, and stays consistent long after motivation fades.
zone6 is built around HYROX and competitive fitness. We don't train to look busy. We train to get measurably better at something. Having a race on the calendar keeps that honest.
The sessions are free because they're not the business. They're the culture. The relationships built at 6am in a car park are the whole point. Everything else flows from that.
First Heat is our free weekly session. No membership. No signup fee. Show up and work.
