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A coach cueing a small group of adults through kettlebell squats at Between The Bumpers in Stittsville
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Coach people, not crowds.

Between The Bumpers is a calm adult training floor with physiotherapy and athletic therapy in the same building. We are always looking for coaches, we host coaching interns, and we have room for a registered massage therapist.

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Who does well here

Our members are 30 to 75. Most of them are starting again.

They are busy professionals, parents, and adults who want to stay capable for a long time. Almost none of them want to be shouted at, filmed, or made to feel like the least fit person in the room. They come here because it is calm, planned, and somebody knows their name. That is what we hire for.

You will do well here if you

  • Notice the quiet person at the back before the loud one at the front.
  • Get a genuine kick out of a 62-year-old's first clean goblet squat.
  • Can scale the same session for a triathlete and a beginner with a bad knee, and make both feel like it was written for them.
  • Teach with your voice at conversation level. The room is quiet on purpose.
  • Read on your own, ask questions, take a course without being told to.
  • Show up at 5:45 am with the same face you have at 5:45 pm.
  • Would rather know twelve members by name than shout at forty.

You will be miserable here if you

  • Measure a session by how wrecked people look at the end.
  • Want to train athletes for a living. We coach a few by request, and that is all.
  • Need a crowd, a playlist and a leaderboard to feel energized.
  • Think "modification" is a polite word for failure.
  • Coach with a whistle, real or metaphorical.
  • Want to be told exactly what to do every day and never look anything up.

"Strong people skills, self-taught curiosity, and the patience to coach the person in front of you. Everything else we can teach."

What you get

A path, not just a schedule.

Mentorship

You coach alongside the owner and the therapists, get watched and get feedback every week, and shadow physio and athletic therapy sessions when it helps your coaching.

Coaching development

Weekly time with the head coach on programming, cueing and scaling, and the freedom to test what you learn on a real floor the same week.

Part-time to full-time

Most of our full-time coaches started with a few shifts a week. The route is written down: group classes, then personal training, then a roster of your own.

The physio-adjacent path

Rehab and training happen on the same floor. If you want to work where injuries turn back into performance, this is one of the few gyms where you can learn it day to day.

The perks

Free membership, discounted physiotherapy, athletic therapy and massage, staff events, on-site parking, casual dress, and a Saturday shift only once a month.

The room

Daylight from garage-door windows, no mirrors, no phones filming, capped sessions, and coffee after the 11 am class. People stay after they are done. That tells you most of it.

Physiotherapist Megan Wallenius coaching a client through a kettlebell squat A coach guiding a member through a single-leg balance drill Members and a coach laughing over coffee after a class
Open roles

Three ways in.

Always accepting applications

Strength and conditioning coach

Lead small group classes, coach personal-training clients, and run new members through their first weeks. Entry-level welcome if the character is right.

  • HoursPart-time or full-time. Primary shift early mornings or evenings, weekdays, one Saturday morning a month.
  • PayDepends on your experience and the role we build together. We tell you the number in the first conversation, not the third.
  • StartWhenever the right person shows up.
  • Must haveValid CPR and First Aid, or willing to get it before your first shift.

What you would actually do

  • Coach group strength and conditioning classes written by the head coach, scaling every exercise to the person doing it.
  • Run one-on-one and small-group personal training as you earn it.
  • Teach the movements, explain why, and keep the floor calm, clean and organized.
  • Know your members: their names, what they are working around, how their week went.

What we look for

  • Character first. Warm, reliable, a great communicator, takes feedback as a gift.
  • One to two years coaching, personal training or serious customer service is preferred. A kinesiology or physical education degree helps. A recognized coaching certification is encouraged.
  • Comfortable with adults from their thirties to their seventies, beginners and returners most of all.
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Students: uOttawa, Algonquin, high school co-op

Coaching internship

A real placement on a real floor. Kinesiology, human kinetics, and fitness and health promotion students do best here, and we take the occasional high-school co-op student who is serious about it.

  • WhenFall, winter and summer terms. Tell us your program's hour requirement and dates.
  • Where6511 Fernbank Road, Stittsville. Bus-reachable, free parking.
  • CreditWe complete your school's paperwork and evaluations. Ask your placement coordinator what counts.
  • SupervisorThe owner and head coach, with time alongside our physiotherapist and athletic therapist.

What a placement looks like

  • Weeks one and two: shadow classes and personal training, learn the methodology and the room.
  • Then assist: warm-ups, movement demos, one-on-one corrections under supervision.
  • Then lead: run a class segment, then a class, with a coach beside you and honest feedback after.
  • One project you keep: a program block, a member education piece, or a rehab-to-training case study with the therapy team.
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Contractor

Registered massage therapist

A treatment room inside a busy adult gym, with physiotherapy and athletic therapy down the hall and a membership that already asks for massage.

  • CommitmentTwo to four days a week to start, more as your roster grows.
  • SetupContractor. Room, table and booking through our clinic software provided. The split is discussed in the first conversation.
  • ClientsBring your own, build from our members, or both. Referrals flow both ways with the therapists and coaches.
  • Must haveRegistered with the CMTO, insured, in good standing.

Who fits

  • You like treating active adults and working alongside rehab and training rather than in isolation.
  • You want a steady room and a team, without buying a clinic.
Apply as an RMT
How we hire

We take hiring seriously, and personally.

Our members trust us with their bodies and their mornings. So we want to know who you are before we know what you can do, and we would rather spend an extra hour now than a wrong year later.

  1. Apply belowFive minutes. Tell us about a person you helped, link a resume if you have one, and a short video of yourself if you are up for it. The video is optional and it helps.
  2. A short callWithin a week. Twenty minutes, mostly listening.
  3. Come inMeet the team, see the room, and do a small task that looks like the job: coach a warm-up, scale an exercise for a beginner, or, for an RMT, treat one of us. Then a real conversation.
  4. An offer, or an honest noEither way you hear from us, and you hear why.
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Tell us who you are.

Application

Five minutes. A real person reads every one of these, usually the owner.

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