About Us
Welcoming and down-to-earth, we’re a performance first personal training company with baggy t-shirt vibe. Experience the quiet luxury of trusted partnership in convenience and comfort at your chosen place to train.
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Our trainers aren’t the polished, picture-perfect version of fitness. Instead, we’re functionally fit, seasoned professionals; physically ready for whatever life’s adventure brings. In an industry built around diets and image, we hire people whose bodies are not their business card and whose coaching goes beyond the traditional gym model.
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PQB Athletic personal training services provide an integrative approach to fitness, meeting all clients once weekly and empowering them with the knowledge to train safely when we’re not there. Emphasis is on training autonomy and independence.
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PQB Athletic is a registered B.C. sole proprietorship of Vancouver Island Fitness Vacations Incorporated. This business has been operating since 2001 under the same ownership.
Registered B.C. Incorporation
A+ Rating Better Business Bureau
Chamber Member, Qualicum Beach
5-Star Google Rating (at time of print)
Fully Insured, WorkSafe BC
Applicable business licences
All homes visited are covered by 5m commercial liability
Bringing back the lost art of privacy
Not everyone wants the neighbours to know they’ve got a personal trainer. You’ll never show up on our social media either. Your training is your business, and our stealth mobile keeps it that way. Inside fits 25+ pieces of gym equipment, selected daily depending on client programming needs. The stamp logo is for our parent company, Vancouver Island Fitness Vacations Inc.
No big branded truck.
Trainers must have minimum 10,000 hours (yes, ten thousand) of verifiable work experience with one-to-one training and sports instruction to work with us. Beyond that, hospitality and customer service experience plus the kind of personality you want to spend time with.
EXPERIENCED
We’re trainers, not kinesiologists. If you need your movement assessed, we refer you to clinical practice. Staying in our lane is the core of what we do. Career coaches and personal trainers lead with different expertise to group fitness instructors.
PROFESSIONAL
Training procedures are standardized by PQB Athletic, with trainers following our system. These methods follow the structure required by luxury hospitality chains, anticipating needs and bringing the experience to the client. In a regular gym, the client comes to the trainer.
CONSISTENT
Fitness Director
Catt Smiley is the lead trainer of PQB Athletic, overseeing each clients fitness programming, service standards, and experience. She is a professional strength and conditioning coach (CSCS) with a Masters in Personal Training and professional skier background.
Catt spent 25 years in Whistler, immigrating from New Zealand. Her work has taken her from private homes and resort communities to guiding thousands of hours of coaching across multiple disciplines, in partnership with Fairmont, Four Seasons, and Marriott brands.
With deep passion for rebuilding physically after setback, clients from all walks of life benefit from her ability to serve any personality, schedule and workout preference. She has worked, lived and traveled to over 50 countries before finding a place to call home.
