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.

25%
reach
20%
credibility
15%
engagement
15%
impact
15%
consistency
10%
commerce

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

01

Mobility & Rehab

81

Score

ME

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.

Steal this

Teach one narrow thing better than anyone and the audience compounds.

InstagramIG 611K
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02

Strength & Conditioning

80

Score

MC

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.

Steal this

Productize your best protocol; a program outscales your calendar.

InstagramIG 327K
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03

Running & Endurance

74

Score

GR

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.

Steal this

A public failure, handled with class, builds more trust than a quiet win.

InstagramIG 93K
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004

Louise Green

74
Inclusive Fitness

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.

Steal this

Serve the audience the industry ignores and you own the category.

InstagramIG 66K
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005

Dr. Jeff Yoo

73
Medicine & Climbing

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.

Steal this

Pair your credential with your obsession; the overlap is the niche.

InstagramIG 376K + 20K climbing account
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006

Desiree Nielsen

73
Nutrition & Dietetics

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.

Steal this

Books and podcasts age better than posts — build assets, not just feeds.

InstagramIG 75K
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007

Bill Wong — Dr. Swole

72
Science-Based Training

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.

Steal this

Skin in the game plus a credential beats either one alone.

InstagramYT 300K + IG 26K
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008

Lindsay Pleskot

71
Nutrition & Dietetics

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.

Steal this

Clinical rigor delivered warmly is a moat — most accounts pick one.

InstagramIG 52K
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009

Adrian Leung

70
Online Coaching

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.

Steal this

Name the exact person you serve and the exact thing they keep.

InstagramIG 125K
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010

Reese

69
Strength & Conditioning

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.

Steal this

Free content is the funnel; the community is the business.

InstagramIG 362K
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011

Jazmin Gillespie

69
Bodybuilding & Physique

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.

Steal this

Short, brutal, consistent sessions beat long occasional ones — and film them.

InstagramIG 753K
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012

Vancouver Dietitians

68
Nutrition & Dietetics

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.

Steal this

A partnership halves the content load and doubles the credibility.

InstagramIG 64K
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013

Kellen Wilson

66
Bodybuilding & Physique

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.

Steal this

Win the hometown title; local proof travels further than reach.

InstagramIG 23K
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014

Jenn Messina

66
Nutrition & Dietetics

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.

Steal this

Refusing to sell quick fixes is itself a positioning strategy.

InstagramIG 46K
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015

Phaedra Wright

65
Studio Founders

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.

Steal this

The studio gives the content a home; the content fills the studio.

InstagramIG 174K + studio 49K
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016

Kelsey Ellis

65
Inclusive Fitness

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.

Steal this

Represent the client the ads ignore and they will find you.

InstagramIG 158K
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017

Niki Mahmoudi

64
Online Coaching

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.

Steal this

Boring promises, kept publicly, out-earn exciting ones broken quietly.

InstagramIG 44K + TikTok 82K
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018

Cam Lee

64
Yoga & Pilates

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.

Steal this

Visual novelty earns the follow; teaching quality earns the stay.

InstagramIG 47K + TikTok 54K
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019

Matt Vena

64
Powerlifting

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.

Steal this

One world-class lift is a stronger brand than ten good ones.

InstagramIG 40K
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020

Hilary Matheson

64
Running & Endurance

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.

Steal this

Being the scene's documentarian makes you central to it.

InstagramIG 32K
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021

Daniela Dib

64
Studio Founders

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.

Steal this

Train in the biggest market you can, then bring the standard home.

InstagramIG 31K + TikTok 25K
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022

Caroline Doucet

63
Nutrition & Dietetics

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.

Steal this

Recipes are retention; every save is a return visit.

InstagramIG 38K
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023

Farhad Khan

62
Wellness

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.

Steal this

Sell the certification, not just the session — teach teachers.

InstagramIG 845K
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024

Karin Keller

62
Outdoor & Adventure

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.

Steal this

Your city's terrain is content no competitor can copy.

InstagramIG 118K
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025

Deryn Macey

62
Nutrition & Lifestyle

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.

Steal this

SEO content compounds while reels depreciate.

InstagramIG 39K
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026

Tanvi Parikh

62
Online Coaching

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.

Steal this

Pick the problem your audience has been told is their fault, and solve it.

InstagramIG 257K
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027

Zachary Klassen

60
Online Coaching

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.

Steal this

Specialize in the client the industry finds too complicated.

InstagramIG 40K
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028

Veronica Skye

60
Run Clubs

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.

Steal this

Lower the barrier to entry and the community does the marketing.

InstagramIG 16K + club 14K
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029

Clara Roberts-Oss

60
Yoga & Pilates

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.

Steal this

A school and a subscription outlast any studio schedule.

InstagramIG 9.4K
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030

Shawn Adair

59
Mobility & Rehab

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.

Steal this

Be the practitioner practitioners refer to.

InstagramIG 15K
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031

Lucy Ulmer

58
Studio Founders

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.

Steal this

Your second act should serve the clients your first act created.

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032

Abtin Javidi

57
Physique Coaching

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.

Steal this

Client results on a stage are testimonials with judges.

InstagramIG 27K
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033

Sydney Hara

57
Run Clubs

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.

Steal this

Say the quiet objection out loud in your brand name.

InstagramClub 11K
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034

Ashley Wiles

57
Youth & Community

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.

Steal this

Impact scales through programs, not posts.

InstagramIG 2.6K
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035

Sapphire Amegago

56
Creators

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.

Steal this

Document the journey in public; the audience arrives mid-story.

InstagramIG 210K
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036

Andie

56
Nutrition & Lifestyle

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.

Steal this

Sell the lifestyle people can keep on a Tuesday in November.

InstagramIG 16K
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037

Kyle Vis

56
Hybrid & HYROX

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.

Steal this

Get institutional the moment a new sport arrives in your city.

InstagramIG 2.7K
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038

Arisha Ladhani

55
Wellness

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.

Steal this

Morning-TV friendliness is a distribution channel most lifters ignore.

InstagramIG 111K
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039

Jack Craddock

55
Bodybuilding & Physique

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.

Steal this

Momentum is a story people follow in real time — narrate the climb.

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040

Fiona Stang

55
Yoga & Pilates

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.

Steal this

Lineage and rarity beat reach in trust-driven disciplines.

InstagramIG 6.3K
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041

Kianoosh Azar

54
Physique Coaching

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.

Steal this

Compete internationally, coach locally, sell globally.

InstagramIG 14K
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042

Sharan Scali

54
Studio Founders

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.

Steal this

Own the gym, lift the meets, coach the members — the loop sells itself.

InstagramIG 7.3K
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043

Ana

54
Yoga & Pilates

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.

Steal this

Teacher trainers sit upstream of the whole local market.

InstagramIG 9.8K
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044

Emily Adams

53
Online Coaching

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.

Steal this

Sponsors follow athletes who already look sponsored.

InstagramIG 17K
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045

Wyatt Hunter

53
Weightlifting

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.

Steal this

Document the road to the Games before the Games make it crowded.

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046

Abby Verigin

53
Yoga & Wellness

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.

Steal this

Therapeutic depth differentiates a group-fitness résumé.

InstagramIG 10K
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047

Gracie

53
Creators

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.

Steal this

Humor lowers the barrier to the gym better than another form-check reel.

InstagramTikTok 84K + IG 5K
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048

Taylor Logan

52
Yoga & Pilates

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.

Steal this

Own your booking page; don't rent your students from a studio.

InstagramIG 13K
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049

Sandra Kilmartin

52
Sports Nutrition

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.

Steal this

The smallest audiences can hold the highest-value clients.

InstagramIG 2.3K
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050

SarahB Fit

51
Bodybuilding & Physique

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.

Steal this

Longevity in a churn industry is its own credential.

InstagramIG 28K
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