ZHOOSH Fitness Garage is a new gym catering to fitness clients with an old-school, laces-canvas-and-hard-work mentality. Robyn Murrell, as owner/operator of the Garage, brings personal training, weight training, FIGHT CLUB Circuit Training, Boxing and various health and wellness options to residents of New Westminster and the Lower Mainland. Murrell also teaches Woman's Kickboxing via Foxy Kickboxing at the Garage and offers clients a unique range of fitness regimes in the martial arts such as Boxing BAD, Combat Submission Wrestling, Karate and Self-Defence with qualified instructors.more...See more text
Go ahead, break the rules about talking about Fight Club. At ZHOOSH Fitness Garage’s drop-in sessions, you’ll find people training with “old school” equipment such as jump ropes, punching bags, barbells and even a monster truck tire.
The New Westminster gym offers a stripped-down, industrial space in which to work up a sweat. With mats covering the floor, high ceilings and a garage door open in good weather, it’s neither the shiny gym full of workout machines nor the smoky basement boxing den of yesteryear.
Owner Robyn Murrell opened ZHOOSH Fitness Garage in 2014 after years of renting spaces to teach classes and work with personal training clients. On the unusual name, she said, “Zhoosh is from the Polari language that was made up in the 16th century by European circus workers so they could talk amongst themselves. It means ‘to tweak or finesse, or to make hot, stylish or cool.’ It popped up in Google searches, and I fell in love with it because it’s so unique and describes what I do, which is transforming people.”