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 built something
that doesn't.”
Percy Perry Stadium. Coquitlam.
Ed and Justin were competitive athletes who couldn't find training that matched the way they actually thought about fitness. Run clubs were great for community but nobody really cared about getting faster. Fitness classes were structured but it was just circuits. An hour of work with no real development, and no one to train alongside after. Every program they found was too commercial, too generic, or too isolated. Built around selling memberships, not developing athletes.
What they wanted was the intersection: real training and a community of people who gave a damn. The kind of session where the person next to you makes you better just by showing up, and where those same people become the ones you actually want to train alongside for years.
So they built it. Free sessions outdoors. No gym. No fee. No ego. Just the two of them, a program, and whoever showed up.
The sessions got harder. The community got bigger. Having something real to train towards became the anchor that kept it all honest.
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.
The mental resilience you build under real physical pressure carries. The ability to show up when it's hard, push through, and stay consistent when results aren't visible. That transfers into your work, your relationships, and how you handle everything life puts in front of you.
When you're consistently around people who train hard and take their health seriously, those habits rub off. It's not just motivation. It's what becomes normal. The zone6 community grows together because everyone around you is actively building a better version of themselves.
Ed and Justin train hard, compete, and hold themselves to the same standard they ask of clients. But they also eat out, take rest days, and enjoy their lives. The approach that actually lasts isn't the most extreme one. It's the one built around a life you actually want to live.
First Heat is our free weekly session. Show up and work.
