Gyms & Fitness
Sardis Sports Complex
About Sardis Sports Complex
A gym in Vedder, between the Sardis malls and Vedder Crossing.
Gyms in this city have a source of support that is easy to miss from outside. The south end of Vedder holds Canada Education Park, and the three institutions on it, the University of the Fraser Valley campus, the RCMP Pacific Region Training Centre and a Justice Institute of BC campus, put an unusual number of people who train seriously into one corner of Chilliwack. That shows in the range of rooms the city sustains: independent gyms, strength and conditioning spaces, boxing and martial arts clubs, and small studios in the industrial units behind Sardis where the ceilings are high and the rent is not.
Sardis Sports Complex is placed between the Sardis shopping centres and Vedder Crossing, a reasonable position on a road most of the neighbourhood drives daily. Vedder Crossing is where the road reaches the river at the bottom of the neighbourhood, so the stretch in between carries a good deal of the local through traffic. National chains are excluded from this directory and municipal leisure centres are listed separately, so what remains on the page is the independent middle of the trade. The name suggests something broader than a single room of equipment, but the record does not say what is under the roof, and describing a space nobody has walked through would be guesswork.
There is no listed number to ring and no site to look at, which leaves the postal code, V2R 3R6, and a visit. For a gym that is less of an obstacle than it would be elsewhere, since the things actually worth knowing cannot be established remotely anyway. Contract length, what a membership admits you to, whether drop-in rates exist and how crowded the floor gets at six in the evening are all questions best answered by turning up at the hour you would normally train and having a look around.
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In the Vedder neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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