About

I built this for the woman who's done it all before.

Hi, I'm Shaina. I've been coaching women in strength and nutrition for nine years — based in Calgary, working with clients all over the world. This page is the long version of why I do it the way I do.

I started The Fit Collective because I kept watching the same thing happen to smart, motivated, hard-working women: they'd find a 12-week program. They'd grind through it. They'd see results. And then — because nothing about that program was actually built for the rest of their life — the second things got busy, sick, stressful, or social, the whole thing fell apart. And they'd blame themselves.

It's not a willpower problem. It's a programming problem. Generic plans built for nobody in particular don't survive contact with a real human life — and they especially don't survive contact with a woman who's also running a household, a career, a family, or all three.

The program was the problem. Not you.

What I do at The Fit Collective is the opposite of generic. I build a strength and nutrition program around the actual woman in front of me — her schedule, her stress, her sleep, her relationship with food, her gym access, her injuries, her life. Then I'm there every week to adjust it as her life changes, because it always does.

I'm not interested in helping you lose 20 lbs in 90 days and then watch you put it back on by next Christmas. I'm interested in helping you build something that lasts — a body, a relationship with food, a way of training — that you can keep being for the next ten years, not the next three months.

Background & training

2017 → Now · 9 years

1:1 coaching

Nine years coaching women through fat loss, strength gain, postpartum recovery, perimenopause, and everything in between.

Certifications

Strength & nutrition

ACE Certified Personal Trainer, Diploma in Nutrition and Personal Training, NASM Pre-Script Level 1, Precision Nutrition Level 1.

Specialty focus

Women in real life

Busy professionals, mothers, entrepreneurs — women who don't have unlimited time and need programming that works inside their actual schedule.

Approach

Sustainable, strength-led

No fad diets. No 75 hard. Strength training as the engine, nutrition that adapts to your life, weekly coaching to keep momentum.

Let's see if we're a fit.

Apply for 1:1 coaching. Honest conversation, no hard sell. If I'm not the right coach for you, I'll tell you.

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