Vancouver Neighbourhoods: Granville Street

Atmospheric Granville Street. (Tourism Vancouver/Nelson Mouellic)

Located in the heart of Vancouver, Granville Street is considered the city’s main entertainment district. Lined with countless restaurants, bars and nightclubs whose neon signs spark to life as darkness falls, the strip pulses with activity during weekends. As a main thoroughfare, Granville Street is easy to get to, whether your pleasure lies in shopping by day or shimmying on the dance floor at night.

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Vancouver Neighbourhoods: Granville Street

Gym Class Meets Nightclub: Fitness Rave Comes to Granville Street, April 26

Image sourced from be-livefitness.com

Image sourced from be-livefitness.com

Chances are you’ve never been to a gym class quite like this.

Flashing lights. Pounding music. Hundreds of sweaty bodies. No, it’s not another club night on Granville Street – it’s Vancouver’s latest fitness craze.

A new form of getting fit has made it’s way to the city: the fitness rave. It’s the brainchild of a local training company called BeLive Fitness, which borrowed the concept from cities like New York and San Francisco.  The idea: turn exercise into a social experience; get people out of the gym and into a nightclub; turn up the music, turn down the lights and rave your way to better health.

BeLive Fitness has already earned a cult following with it’s regular fitness raves at the Caprice nightclub on Granville Street. Held in the early evening on weekday nights, the events regularly sell out, drawing a diverse crowd of hundreds of fitness and music aficionados looking for something different.  Continue reading:
Gym Class Meets Nightclub: Fitness Rave Comes to Granville Street, April 26