About Rebel Performance in Guelph, ON
Guelphs most fun and encouraging gym
We built our gym to serve a gap in the fitness industry. We are here to offer you a different training experience. One that bridges the gap between rehab and performance and keeps you looking, feeling and performing your best.
This is Our Team
We are a group of committed full-time professional coaches, here to help you take your fitness and health to the next level. Through intelligent programming, encouraging instruction, and real-talk accountability, our coaches guide you from where you are to where you want to go.
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Founders’ Story & Coaching Standards
Rebel Performance was built by husband-and-wife team Matt and Erin after 15+ years working in the fitness industry and believing people deserved something better than the typical gym experience.
Their vision was simple: create a place where great coaching, evidence-based training, and genuine human connection could live under one roof. Today, Rebel is a family-owned gym built around helping people fall in love with trainingāand use their time in the gym as a tool for meaningful change in their real lives.
Our coaching philosophy is grounded in nearly two decades of hands-on experience and continued education across strength & conditioning, barbell and kettlebell training, functional mobility, postural restoration, movement assessment, and athletic development.
Every Rebel coach is onboarded through our internal coaching standards and professional development process, creating a consistent level of care, expertise, and coaching across our team.
We also believe great coaches never stop learning. Through ongoing education, mentorship, and our involvement with Business for Unicorns, we continue to raise the barāfor ourselves, our coaches, and the people we have the privilege of training.
Our Coaches
Erin Tusa-Thatcher
Matt Thatcher
Harvey Merchant
Sami Falkenstein
Don Nyguen
Meg Durkee
Obi-Wan
Clean and Well-Maintained
Equipment is the Standard
At Rebel Performance, our Strength Academy uses comprehensive training programs thoughtfully executed in 4-week blocks, with personal testing and progress tracking to ensure a smart, individualized approach. We train with barbells, trap bars, safety bars, dumbbells, kettlebells, sleds, medicine balls, ropes, ski ergs, cable machines, maces, and professional Eleiko weight plates and change plates to help members progress with precision, build strength, move better, and create results that last.
Outfitted with trusted gear like rouge racks, Eliko plates, unique tools like safety bars, transformer bars and barbells, trap bars to support all levels.
Large turf area for warm ups, glider work, landmine space and the turf as a recovery hub to facilitate post workout and for our central warm up area.
Functional conditioning equipment like assault bikes, ski ergs, plyo boxes and medicine balls. Everything you need to challenge yourself and keep things interesting.
Reverse osmosis taps, new HVAC unit and new speakers and bathroom renos on the way!
Thatās Us.
Letās Learn About You!
Weāve had a blast telling you a bit about ourselves. But this isnāt about us, itās about you. Your journey, your goals, your results. So letās get to know each other, set some life-changing but attainable goals, and welcome you to our supportive community.
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