Melanie has been a part of the Jewish Community Centre Greater Vancouver since 1994 as a fitness leader, aquatic instructor, personal trainer and Trainer of Trainers. She specializes in training seniors and people with special fitness challenges. Melanie maintains a passion and commitment to teaching and helping individuals meet their health and fitness goals. As an instructor she supplements all of her fitness leadership lessons with interactive activities such as science experiments, crafty demos or high energy games that help participants get an even better grasp of concepts. Melanie maintains a commitment to learning, making sure her students receive annotated addendums to their course textbooks when new research is presented and when standards change. She has also developed her own manuals, CDs and online courses, which provide a tangible component to go along with the mentorship she provides to new fitness leaders.

Kim is the owner and group fitness director of Live2Play Fitness Studio. She continues to work as a personal trainer, helping people achieve their fitness goals while also managing staff, training new fitness leaders and finding ways to help move the fitness industry forward in both professionalism and standard. Kim helped to bring the pre-choreographed program “R.I.P.P.E.D. to Canada and launched its first training session in April 2011. She also re-wrote and expanded the Hilltop Academy 340 hour Fitness Leadership Diploma program into a 400 hour program. Her efforts to educate, motivate and inspire people from all walks of life to embrace healthy and active lifestyles have extended to the community through volunteer work as well. She has performed various warm-ups throughout the community and is an active coach for the Steve Nash Youth Basketball League coaching a grade 6-7 mixed team.