Community Impact Award - Rocked Community Fitness

COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD

MORE THAN JUST WORKING OUT

Rocked Community Fitness receives the Chamber’s 2021 Community Impact Award

Rocked Community Fitness offers group fitness classes and nutritional counselling. They won the 2021 Community Impact Award from the Brandon Chamber of Commerce's Business Achievement Awards.

When it comes to fitness, a local gym is looking to change the way people think about working out and fueling their bodies.

Rocked Community Fitness, located at 205 16th Street North in Brandon, originally opened in 2013 under the name CrossFit Rocked. The studio rebranded last year and offers group fitness classes and nutritional counselling. Focused around CrossFit, each class features strength and conditioning moves, and members range in ages from 12 to 76 years.

“I think our goal here is to prepare people for anything they want to accomplish in life. We want people to be empowered to tackle whatever challenges they seek with confidence. That might be playing with grandkids, joining a soccer team, hiking, running with your dog, or living independently… but we think you should be able to do whatever makes you happy,” says Jenn McMillan, who coowns the company with husband Zack McMillan. “I think our style of functional fitness prepares people for anything and everything because it is so versatile and covers such a variety of different movements.”

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The company was the recipient of the Community Impact Award at the Brandon Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Business Achievement Awards. McMillan says that they are always inspired by their members’ involvement in the community and that they’ve run different fundraisers for various causes that their members are involved in. She adds that the initiatives are never the same, but there’s always different ways to go about them, such as tshirts or events (prior to the pandemic).

Over the past year, with the COVID19 pandemic forcing their doors to close, they took to hosting fitness classes over Zoom and were even doing outdoor classes earlier this spring when the government announced a third lockdown. McMillan says that they have had to learn to adapt to the everchanging restrictions and it’s let them be more creative in their approach to offering fitness to their members and the community.

“When we got the nomination we were very surprised. We are always trying to do better and I know there’s people out there who donate hours and hours of their time, which I feel is probably the most valuable resource,” says McMillan. “We are just so honoured that people felt that we had that kind of impact in the community in some sort of positive way.”

Rocked Community Fitness has been a member of the Brandon Chamber for a number of years now and although McMillan says she didn’t partake in events their first year, once they dipped their toes, they dove in headfirst. She says that they have found the network of members to be incredibly useful, as well as the advocacy that the Chamber partakes in.

“The Chamber was writing letters to the government on behalf of businesses, specifically in ways that we didn’t know how to connect with the government since we are a small business. I felt like I didn’t have a voice to reach out personally, even though I did and tried,” says McMillan. “To have the whole chamber of commerce behind you reaching out to your local government on your behalf was heartwarming, especially in a closure. To know that people are fighting for you and you don’t even know them and didn’t ask them to do it, they just did it. It was pretty powerful.” ¢

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