The Vancouver 50 · City Edition
Top 50 Fitness Influencers in Vancouver 2026
The 50 people who actually move this city. Not the biggest follower counts — the physios, Olympic hopefuls, dietitians, and run-club founders Vancouver trains with, ranked by the Fitness Influence Score.
Reviewed monthly · Updated 2026-08-06
How we rank
The Fitness Influence Score
Same model as the global Top 100, tuned for one city. To qualify, a creator lives and works in Greater Vancouver and posts fitness, training, or nutrition as a core topic. The reach curve is recalibrated for a city list — local depth beats global noise.
Follower counts are point-in-time approximations from public profiles. Scores reflect our editorial read of public work — not endorsements, sponsorships, or paid placement.
The ranking
The 50
Mobility & Rehab
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Michelle Edmison
Registered physiotherapist, UBC clinical instructor, and certified Kinstretch and FRC mobility specialist running Movement 101 out of North Vancouver.
The biggest fitness-education account in the city — over 75,000 students have gone through her online mobility classes, and her feed turns clinical rehab into training you can actually do.
Teach one narrow thing better than anyone and the audience compounds.
Strength & Conditioning
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Meghan Callaway
North Vancouver strength coach with 22+ years in the trade and a UBC kinesiology degree.
Her Ultimate Pull-Up Program has been run by lifters in 47 countries, and she publishes for Girls Gone Strong and half the industry's major outlets — a global product built from a local coaching practice.
Productize your best protocol; a program outscales your calendar.
Running & Endurance
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Gary Robbins
North Vancouver ultrarunner, HURT 100 course-record holder, and co-founder of the Coast Mountain Trail Series.
His three heartbreak near-misses at the Barkley Marathons made him one of the most famous endurance athletes in the country, and he converted that fame into races the whole North Shore runs.
A public failure, handled with class, builds more trust than a quiet win.
004LGLouise Green
Inclusive Fitness74
North Vancouver trainer, author, and founder of the Big Fit Girl brand and app.
A SELF Magazine columnist profiled by People, she has spent nearly two decades building size-inclusive training into a movement, an app, and a book that changed who gyms think they serve.
Serve the audience the industry ignores and you own the category.
005JYDr. Jeff Yoo
Medicine & Climbing73
Emergency physician at St. Paul's Hospital, UBC faculty, and elite rock climber.
Blends ER medicine with climbing and injury-recovery content few creators can credibly touch — the rare account where the medical authority is real.
Pair your credential with your obsession; the overlap is the niche.
006DNDesiree Nielsen
Nutrition & Dietetics73
Vancouver registered dietitian, host of The Allsorts Podcast, and bestselling author of Eat More Plants.
One of Canada's most-cited voices on plant-based nutrition, with books, national media, and a clinical practice behind the content.
Books and podcasts age better than posts — build assets, not just feeds.
007BWBill Wong — Dr. Swole
Science-Based Training72
UBC-trained medical doctor and WNBF Pro natural physique athlete behind the Ask Dr. Swole channel and Swole Radio podcast.
Roughly 300,000 YouTube subscribers trust him because he competes drug-free and prescribes like a physician — evidence first, hype never.
Skin in the game plus a credential beats either one alone.
008LPLindsay Pleskot
Nutrition & Dietetics71
Registered dietitian since 2010, formerly running heart-health and diabetes programs at St. Paul's Hospital, now behind a private practice and coaching app.
Bestselling author of The Feel-Good Meal Plan who took hospital-grade nutrition counselling and made it feel like talking to a friend.
Clinical rigor delivered warmly is a moat — most accounts pick one.
009ALAdrian Leung
Online Coaching70
Vancouver online coach who has trained 600+ professional women over six years, ranked among top TikTok fitness voices in 2022 and 2024.
Built a coaching brand on one sharp promise: lose weight without giving up your cultural foods — specificity the generic macro coaches can't match.
Name the exact person you serve and the exact thing they keep.
010RReese
Strength & Conditioning69
Certified personal trainer splitting time between Vancouver and San Francisco, with a paid fitness and wellness community and 1:1 online training business.
One of the fastest-growing fitness accounts tied to the city — approachable strength content that converts followers into coached clients.
Free content is the funnel; the community is the business.
011Jazmin Gillespie
Bodybuilding & Physique69
Vancouver certified trainer and international figure competitor with a 3rd-degree black belt in karate, coaching in person at P.R. Fitness Studio and online.
The biggest physique following in the city — a mother of two training 5-7 days a week and showing exactly how the shoulders and quads got built.
Short, brutal, consistent sessions beat long occasional ones — and film them.
012Vancouver Dietitians
Nutrition & Dietetics68
Joint practice and content brand of registered dietitians Alexandra Inman and Stephanie Dang in South Granville.
Two clinicians, one account, one message — health gain over weight loss — grown into one of the city's largest nutrition followings.
A partnership halves the content load and doubles the credibility.
013Kellen Wilson
Bodybuilding & Physique66
IFBB Pro Classic Physique competitor from the Vancouver area — two-time Olympian with four pro wins.
Won the 2026 Vancouver Pro on home soil, backed by Mutant Nation and Wolfpak — the city's highest-placed active bodybuilder.
Win the hometown title; local proof travels further than reach.
014Jenn Messina
Nutrition & Dietetics66
North Vancouver registered dietitian with 15+ years of clinical experience running an intuitive-eating private practice.
Built a 45K following on anti-diet, Health at Every Size nutrition — clinical patience in a space full of 30-day promises.
Refusing to sell quick fixes is itself a positioning strategy.
015Phaedra Wright
Studio Founders65
Founder and CEO of VIP Fitness & Lifestyle on West Broadway, running her transformation studio since 2011.
A 14-year-old brick-and-mortar coaching business plus a personal account near 175K — proof the studio and the feed can grow each other.
The studio gives the content a home; the content fills the studio.
016Kelsey Ellis
Inclusive Fitness65
Vancouver certified trainer and body-positive fitness voice behind Healthy With Kelsey, known for curvy-girl running content.
Carries the weight-inclusive training conversation to a six-figure audience — the running content reaches people the industry told to stay home.
Represent the client the ads ignore and they will find you.
017Niki Mahmoudi
Online Coaching64
West Vancouver online coach and UBC grad building routines-not-trends training for women across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Supplement partnerships and a three-platform presence built on the least glamorous promise in fitness: consistency.
Boring promises, kept publicly, out-earn exciting ones broken quietly.
018Cam Lee
Yoga & Pilates64
Vancouver RYT-200 yoga teacher and aerial yoga specialist creating across Instagram and TikTok.
Turned aerial yoga — a niche within a niche — into a six-figure cross-platform audience with consistently inventive movement content.
Visual novelty earns the follow; teaching quality earns the stay.
019Matt Vena
Powerlifting64
Vancouver 93kg powerlifter — junior Canadian national champion with all-time bench press records, equipped 800+ lb and raw 600+ lb.
SBD-affiliated and one of the strongest pressers the country has produced, documenting the grind rep by rep.
One world-class lift is a stronger brand than ten good ones.
020Hilary Matheson
Running & Endurance64
Squamish ultrarunner, award-winning photographer, co-founder of Here For The Women's Race, and co-host of The Trail Network podcast.
Races, shoots, writes, and advocates in the same sport — the connective tissue of BC's trail-running scene.
Being the scene's documentarian makes you central to it.
021Daniela Dib
Studio Founders64
Former SoulCycle instructor in New York and LA who came home to open DibFit Cycle, a boutique cycling studio on Homer Street downtown.
Brought big-market spin pedigree back to Vancouver and built the studio around her own name and following — local press covered the opening.
Train in the biggest market you can, then bring the standard home.
022Caroline Doucet
Nutrition & Dietetics63
Vancouver registered dietitian behind the Nourished by Caroline practice and recipe blog.
Non-diet, plant-forward coaching with a recipe library that keeps an audience fed between consults.
Recipes are retention; every save is a return visit.
023Farhad Khan
Wellness62
North Vancouver yoga teacher and sound healer who founded Maa Yoga & Wellness in 2007, ran it for 15 years, and now leads sound-healing certifications.
The biggest wellness following in the region; his sound-bath and meditation content pulls a global audience into practices Vancouver studios teach every day.
Sell the certification, not just the session — teach teachers.
024Karin Keller
Outdoor & Adventure62
Vancouver photographer and creator documenting hiking, skiing, and trail running across the North Shore and Sea-to-Sky corridor.
The account that makes Vancouver's outdoor gym — the mountains — look like the best training facility in the country, because it is.
Your city's terrain is content no competitor can copy.
025Deryn Macey
Nutrition & Lifestyle62
Vancouver writer, recipe developer, and photographer behind the Running on Real Food blog, with strength-training programs on the side.
A decade-deep vegan recipe archive that ranks in search and feeds a stable audience most algorithm-chasers would envy.
SEO content compounds while reels depreciate.
026Tanvi Parikh
Online Coaching62
Vancouver coach behind I Will Get Lean, focused on fat loss for women with insulin resistance.
Took one under-served metabolic problem and built a quarter-million-strong audience around solving it.
Pick the problem your audience has been told is their fault, and solve it.
027Zachary Klassen
Online Coaching60
Vancouver online coach (Project Transform X) focused on women's health — PCOS, thyroid, and menopause — through nutrition and metabolism.
Claims 1,000+ client transformations in two years by coaching conditions, not just calories.
Specialize in the client the industry finds too complicated.
028Veronica Skye
Run Clubs60
Founder of Mondays Run Club, started in 2021 with an open Instagram invite to run the seawall and grab a beer.
Now 100+ runners show up weekly — one of the largest social run communities in the city, built from a single post.
Lower the barrier to entry and the community does the marketing.
029Clara Roberts-Oss
Yoga & Pilates60
Vancouver Vinyasa teacher since 2006, founder of the Lila School of Vinyasa Yoga and the Practice with Clara online studio.
Teaches teachers through her own school, runs a subscription studio, and headlines stages like Wanderlust Whistler — a full yoga business built on two decades of practice.
A school and a subscription outlast any studio schedule.
030Shawn Adair
Mobility & Rehab59
Founder and president of The Bar Strength & Conditioning in Richmond — manual therapist stacked with FST, FRC, DNS, and PPSC certifications.
The prehab-rehab coach other Vancouver trainers follow to fix what their programs break.
Be the practitioner practitioners refer to.
031Lucy Ulmer
Studio Founders58
Co-founder of Spin Society and Hustle studios, creator of The LU Method for prenatal, postpartum, and pelvic-floor training — profiled by The Globe and Mail.
Built two of the city's known boutique studios, then built the specialized program the boutique market wasn't serving.
Your second act should serve the clients your first act created.
032Abtin Javidi
Physique Coaching57
Vancouver bodybuilding prep coach — Body Classic champion with an MBA and ISSA and DotFit certifications.
Runs a stage-prep coaching business where the before-and-afters are his own competitors.
Client results on a stage are testimonials with judges.
033Sydney Hara
Run Clubs57
Founded Slow Girls Run Club in 2023 — a no-pressure running community for women in Vancouver.
Named the pace in the club name and removed the single biggest reason women skip run clubs: fear of being last.
Say the quiet objection out loud in your brand name.
034Ashley Wiles
Youth & Community57
Founder and head coach of Sole Girls — a running and self-esteem program for girls with 14 locations, expanded to Australia — and a two-time Ironman.
Named most inspiring coach in North America by Brooks; the follower count wildly understates the footprint.
Impact scales through programs, not posts.
035Sapphire Amegago
Creators56
Vancouver fitness creator documenting the training life that followed a 60-pound weight loss.
One of the city's largest fitness audiences, built on the most relatable arc in the gym: the journey, not the destination.
Document the journey in public; the audience arrives mid-story.
036Andie
Nutrition & Lifestyle56
Vancouver Registered Holistic Nutritionist blending food, fitness, and lifestyle content.
A top-three name on BC fitness-influencer roundups for making sustainable habits look livable, not punishing.
Sell the lifestyle people can keep on a Tuesday in November.
037Kyle Vis
Hybrid & HYROX56
HYROX Canada L1 coach and Pacific Northwest regional manager, 20-time HYROX finisher coaching hybrid athletes out of Vancouver.
The official face of the fastest-growing fitness race format in the region — small following, outsized gatekeeper role.
Get institutional the moment a new sport arrives in your city.
038Arisha Ladhani
Wellness55
Vancouver-raised athlete and creator behind Wake Up and Kale, splitting time between Vancouver and LA.
Healthy-recipe and balanced-lifestyle content with CTV Morning Live appearances — a mainstream bridge into fitness culture.
Morning-TV friendliness is a distribution channel most lifters ignore.
039Jack Craddock
Bodybuilding & Physique55
Vancouver Classic Physique competitor who earned his IFBB Pro Card at the July 2026 Vancouver Pro.
Went from local CPA shows to the pro stage in three seasons, placing 4th in his pro debut at home.
Momentum is a story people follow in real time — narrate the climb.
040Fiona Stang
Yoga & Pilates55
Authorized Ashtanga teacher leading Ashtanga Yoga Vancouver, one of the city's traditional practice communities.
Authorization in the Ashtanga lineage is rare currency — a decades-deep practice, not a 200-hour certificate.
Lineage and rarity beat reach in trust-driven disciplines.
041Kianoosh Azar
Physique Coaching54
Vancouver-based ISSA online trainer — national bodybuilding champion, 2nd at the IFBB Diamond Cup, 4th on the amateur Olympia circuit.
An international competition résumé compressed into an online coaching practice.
Compete internationally, coach locally, sell globally.
042Sharan Scali
Studio Founders54
Owner of Semiahmoo Athletic Club in South Surrey — competitive Olympic weightlifter, CrossFit coach, and nutrition specialist.
Competes in the sports she coaches and owns the floor she coaches on — full-stack credibility under one roof.
Own the gym, lift the meets, coach the members — the loop sells itself.
043Ana
Yoga & Pilates54
E-RYT 500 yoga teacher and yoga therapist, faculty on a Vancouver-area teacher training program.
Trains the city's next generation of teachers — upstream of every studio schedule.
Teacher trainers sit upstream of the whole local market.
044Emily Adams
Online Coaching53
Vancouver-based certified trainer and contest-prep coach (Team Mutant, Better Bodies) training clients out of Port Coquitlam.
Combines a women's online coaching business with BC outdoor-lifestyle content that doesn't feel like an ad.
Sponsors follow athletes who already look sponsored.
045Wyatt Hunter
Weightlifting53
Team Canada weightlifter, 2023 Commonwealth champion at 89kg, UBC kinesiology student and Dynasty Weightlifting coach.
Training for LA 2028 out of a downtown Vancouver gym while running the UBC Weightlifting Club — the city's Olympic hope in the sport.
Document the road to the Games before the Games make it crowded.
046Abby Verigin
Yoga & Wellness53
Burnaby yoga therapist (C-IAYT track) and group fitness coach teaching at Oxygen Yoga & Fitness.
A BC top-10 roundup name bridging therapeutic yoga and group fitness floors.
Therapeutic depth differentiates a group-fitness résumé.
047Gracie
Creators53
Vancouver fitness creator whose gym-humor and relatable training content built an 84K TikTok following, with KEEPTHATPUMP, Magnum Nutraceuticals, and FitnessAI sponsorships.
Proof the next wave of local fitness influence is being built on TikTok, not Instagram.
Humor lowers the barrier to the gym better than another form-check reel.
048Taylor Logan
Yoga & Pilates52
Vancouver yoga teacher and blogger behind the Yogini Taylor class business, writing on yoga, motherhood, and mindfulness.
A personal-brand yoga business — classes, blog, and audience — run end to end by one teacher.
Own your booking page; don't rent your students from a studio.
049Sandra Kilmartin
Sports Nutrition52
Sports dietitian with the IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition, ultrarunner, and founder of No Sweat Nutrition serving Vancouver and the Sea to Sky.
The fueling expert behind local endurance athletes — Olympic-committee-credentialed in a field crowded with certificates.
The smallest audiences can hold the highest-value clients.
050SarahB Fit
Bodybuilding & Physique51
Vancouver bikini competitor and long-running fitness creator.
A fixture of the local competition scene since the Daily Hive was rounding up fitness Instagrammers in 2017.
Longevity in a churn industry is its own credential.
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