International Women’s Day 2024 at Innovative Fitness
From our women coaches to our women athletes, we’re lucky to be surrounded by so many incredible individuals at Innovative Fitness! In honour of #IWD2024, we wanted to highlight a few of our members, coaches and other influential women that inspire us and have positively contributed to the Innovative Fitness community (the list is endless so we’ll do our best to highlight a few!). To start, let’s focus on our very own Innovative Fitness White Rock coach, Kalena, and member, Marlee.
Meet Kalena Morton
Kalena Morton is the Studio Manager at Innovative Fitness White Rock! She’s worked with Innovative for the last 4 years and never looked back. Kalena’s worked in the health and fitness industry for 15 years and grew up in dance and cheerleading, which is how she originally got into this industry! Kalena lives in Surrey with her amazing husband Ivan and they’ve been together for 17 years.
Her fitness journey is ever evolving and she likes to change it up seasonally. Currently, she’s training for a full marathon (completed her first 2 half marathon’s last year) and she throws in boxing once a week with the fantastic boxing coach Jas, and heavy lifting, often!
Tell us about a woman who inspires you to stay active?
All my amazing female clients inspire me daily. I have such a strong community of women around me here at Innovative Fitness. From CEO’s to business owners, to students completing their masters degrees. They trust me with their health, show up daily, and never give up #noexcuse
What do you love about training other women at Innovative Fitness?
I shouldn’t say the endless conversations we have during our sessions, but it’s true! We stick to the program, get it done, but time flies when you’re training your friends!
Meet Marlee Whitley
Marlee is one of the amazing women we have the pleasure to coach at Innovative Fitness White Rock. She has a full house with 2 kids, 3 dogs, 1 cat and a husband. She works for Haddon Equipment and Supplies as a Senior Sales Executive and travels the province monthly for work. Marlee loves animals, traveling, family and friends, the ocean, a good book, as well as, hosting a good dinner party.
Tell us about a woman who inspires you?
I look up to my mom. She is always looking out for others, has the biggest heart and always had her family’s best interest first. Hard worker is an understatement.
When and why did you start at IF?
I am not totally sure when I started but it was once restrictions lifted after the pandemic. I have always been good at self motivating myself to exercise but needed something out of the house and wanted to get stronger. Jeff has done that for me and I also was going with my dad to motivate him as well.
How has it impacted your life?
Since going to IF I have noticed my mental and physical health improve and I love it. Jeff is great in the fact that I can train with him on zoom when I travel and it keeps me consistent!
