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Fulfilling a vision comes down to being in tune with your core values. At Nova Health Club, our core values fuel who we are and who we wish to be. We are looking to align ourselves with people who resonate with our values because we know we can then make a bigger impact in your life. Our Core Values 1)Performance: Focus, energy and strength to perform better at your life’s goals and purpose. Being a performance driven company means we have an objective to support you in thinking and acting in ways that will help you perform better at whatever you want to be better in - whether it is working out, sport, work or relationships. 2)Excellence: Learning, growing and challenging ourselves to become better than we were yesterday. We hold ourselves to high standards, striving for exceptional results in our community by challenging the status quo, embracing vulnerability, and stepping out of our comfort zone to foster growth and improvement. 3)Engagement: Experiences that empower individuals and communities to better health. Opportunities to inspire and empower people to actively engage in their personal journey toward better health is the essence of Nova coaching, accountability and motivation. 4)Holistic: Wellness through the 5 Pillars of Health - mindset, movement, nutrition, stress resilience and recovery. Supporting your health goals, making them a reality and becoming the highest version of yourself is best done when we consider how each pillar affects the other.

“To redefine the fitness industry by evolving into holistic health coaches who transform lives and operate in the 'blue space' where competition is irrelevant.” This is our company vision and I would like to share some perspective behind this vision and how it impacts you as someone in our Nova Community. 25 Years Experience I started personal training in the year 2000 when I was 20 years old. When I started personal training in 2000 I was a trainer who only knew about exercise. My 4 years studying Kinesiology at University only taught me about human movement. My knowledge in areas such as nutrition, mental health or sleep was next to nothing. I also never had any health adversity that would have ever taught me anything other than how to workout. Like most young personal trainers, I had high energy, ate whatever I wanted and could do things like party till 2am drinking alcohol. It was not until I was 30 years old (10 years into my personal training) that I started to see that health was more than just working out. I started noticing unfavorable changes in my metabolism, ability to recover and stress levels. When I was 36 years old, severe burn out brought my health to a screeching halt. It took me 5 years to recover from this and during this time is when I connected the dots to health and really started to appreciate what my clients needed. Personal Trainer to Health Coach As a young personal trainer who trained a clientele with the average age of 50 I only focused on how to ‘train’ a client with exercise. As I matured I realized that exercise was only a small part of my responsibility to my clients and if I continued to only focus on that, I would be creating a disservice to them. I started to observe things with my clients that proved my point. For example, the 6am high stress client who had a poor sleep needed a specific type of workout at 6am and coaching on how to sleep and manage stress. The client who was always getting injured needed support with stress, recovery and nutrition - not just rehab training. The client who was struggling with weight loss did not need more working out, they needed support in the other areas of their health like digestion, insulin management and sleep. My biggest epiphany came to me when I realized that few of my clients were reaching their goals. I had clients that had the same goal year after year with little progress towards it. Sure they were active but the working out was not making as much impact in their lives as it could if I connected the dots for them. This did not sit well with me and was not the legacy I wanted to leave behind. I started changing the tune of how to ‘train’ my clients. Though my sessions were founded on getting a ‘workout’, my priority was to support them as much as possible in areas OUTSIDE of fitness that I call the 5 Pillars of Health. Because I realized that what happens outside the gym determines what happens in the gym and ultimately the results and transformations that people wanted. The ‘5 Pillars of Health’ 1)Movement 2)Nutrition 3)Sleep 4)Stress 5)Mindset The Wellness Revolution Wellness is a holistic term which takes the 5 Pillars of Health into consideration. Personal trainers focus on fitness, but fitness is just one piece of the puzzle. Without addressing the other elements of holistic health, fitness alone will fall short of taking you as far as you want to go or resolving the core issues that led you to start your fitness journey in the first place. Fitness is a gateway to wellness and is probably the best place to start. That is why people see their personal trainers multiple times each week and not their doctors. Personal trainers therefore have a larger responsibility than they know. But the industry is changing and Nova Health Club is going in the direction of wellness. That is why our name is Nova Health Club and not Nova Fitness. We want to create a massive impact in your life by supporting you beyond just working out. To do this our vision is to evolve from personal trainers to health coaches. Fitness will always be at our core, but as we grow, we seek coaches with a holistic approach to training. Nova ‘Health Coaches’ will be equipped to support you in the 5 Pillars of Health, going beyond simply pushing you to work out harder. We are also going to continue expanding our programs and services to offer more support in nutrition, sleep, stress and mindset. The Blue Space One of our core values is ‘Excellence’. This means we have the desire to do great things and stand apart from the rest. We are confident that achieving our vision of redefining the industry as holistic health coaches will take us into an area that we refer to as the ‘Blue Space’. The name ‘Nova’ means ‘new’ and the ‘Blue Space’ is new unchartered territory where few people and companies go to. As industry leaders it is our long term vision to move in this direction, exploring new areas of health coaching that have never been done before. We’re excited to be on this journey and invite you to join us, moving closer to your true potential and living your healthiest life yet! The Nova Health Club Vision: “To redefine the fitness industry by evolving into holistic health coaches who transform lives and operate in the 'blue space' where competition is irrelevant.”

Congratulations to Rob and Pam Smith, our SuperNova duo for 2024! Congratulations to Rob and Pam Smith, our SuperNova duo for 2024! This recognition is a long time coming because since they joined Nova 6 years ago, they have proved consistency every year. This is seen not just in them showing up to workout at the club each week but by challenging themselves to do something bigger with their fitness each year.

Congratulations to Louvens our December SuperNova! Louvens has come a long way in the last 10 months since joining Nova’s transformation program, ‘LeanDads’. While most people notice his weight loss, that is only the tip of the iceberg...  His transformation goes beyond just body composition - he improved his digestion, eating habits, energy, sleep, mindset, mood, strength and injury management. Read the interview with Louvens below to see exactly what he accomplished and how he did it.

The winter months present more health challenges than other times of year. Forms of exercise are less readily available, including outdoor sports, water sports and walking/running.

Rattlesnake Hike (April)

It's payback time and for a good cause! Now’s your chance to make your coaches sweat! Team Nova is doing burpees again this year to raise money for Kerr Street Mission . For more than two decades, KSM has been providing essential programs and services for families and their children. We have teamed up with KSM to help support them and their ‘ Christmas Wonders ’ program that each Christmas helps local Oakville families in need at this time of year. Over the last 5 years, team Nova has raised over $17,000 for local charity and completed 14,500 burpees! How It Works From December 2nd - 14th , donate $10 and spin the 'Wheel of Burpees'. Whatever number it lands on is the number of burpees the coach of YOUR CHOICE has to do. All proceeds will go towards KSM’s Christmas Wonders program. Burpees for charity, what could be greater than that?  Let's get that wheel spinning and your coach doing some burpees!

Introducing Nova's Newest Coach We are proud to welcome Kayla as our newest member to the Nova health club team ! Kayla is an Active Therapy Specialist and Holistic Health Coach. She graduated from Brock University with a bachelors in Kinesiology while also being a member of the varsity women’s rugby team. She then went on to complete a post-graduate certification in Exercise Science & Lifestyle Management along with Postpartum Rehabilitation and Ayurvedic Health Counselling. While studying, she was applying her knowledge and expertise in health promotion, exercise prescription and musculoskeletal disorders and nutrition at the clinics in which she worked. Kayla has a passion for sports, the arts and travelling. However, her main mission is to educate people in healthy living through movement, exercise and self-care. The importance of physical activity for human health is essential and having the ability to make a difference in people’s lives and their health is the reason why she originally entered this field. Now, after years of continued education, she has become even more determined to share and empower others to live their healthiest lives possible.