Our Partners
Kaos isn’t just a gym, it’s a multi-tenant facility where four independent specialist organizations operate under one roof. Pelvic health, injury management, Olympic weightlifting, and athletic performance. Each is delivered by its own credentialed expert, all accessible to our community.
Meet the Partners Book Intro Class4 Partner Organizations
All under one roof
On-Site Clinical Care
Physio & massage · Pelvico
CAF/VAC Direct Billing
Via Pelvico/Medavie
Specialist Expertise
Not a generalist mash-up
Independent & Aligned
Separate companies, shared standards
Why we built it this way
The serious athletes training at Kaos (postpartum mothers, CAF members, masters lifters, return-to-sport competitors) need more than coached classes. They need specialist coaching, pelvic health care, body composition tracking, and rehab support. Building all of that in-house would have meant doing each badly. Partnering with the best independent practitioners in each area means our community gets specialist-grade expertise without specialist-grade overhead.
Each partner is a separate company with its own license, insurance, billing, and ownership. We share space, standards, and a referral relationship. Not equity. That structure is intentional. It protects our community (you’re getting the actual specialist, not a Kaos employee playing dress-up) and it protects the partners (their clinical or coaching judgment isn’t subordinated to a gym owner’s bottom line).
114 Chain Lake Drive · One Roof, Five Organizations
Kaos CrossFit owns and operates the facility. Pelvico subleases its own dedicated suite. Cardinal, Primo, and GRND are independent contractors who deliver their services on-site. This is the only address in Halifax where you’ll find this combination operating together.
Kaos CrossFit
Pelvico Health Centre
Cardinal Performance
Primo Weightlifting
GRND Athletics
Pelvico Health Centre
What they do
Pelvico is a Halifax physiotherapy and massage therapy clinic specifically tailored to active people, covering both orthopaedic and pelvic health. While most practices are built around general-population care, Pelvico’s clinicians understand barbell sport, CrossFit, running, and the demands those place on the body. They treat the people we train.
Conditions they treat
- Sport and athletic injuries
- Lower back pain
- Sprains, strains, and other musculoskeletal conditions
- Postpartum recovery and return-to-sport
- Pelvic floor dysfunction (incontinence, prolapse, pelvic pain)
- Painful intercourse / sexual health concerns
- Pre/post-operative care for pelvic and orthopaedic surgeries
- Pelvic floor concerns specific to weightlifters and HYROX athletes
- Diastasis recti assessment and treatment
Why it matters at Kaos
Many of our postpartum athletes and CAF members were dealing with pelvic health issues that mainstream physio wasn’t addressing well. Having Pelvico at Suite 5 means specialized care happens where the training happens, coaches and clinicians collaborate, the athlete doesn’t have to choose between two appointments.
Cardinal Performance
What it is
Cardinal Performance is Catherine’s independent personal training company, operating inside Kaos. They work with a broad range of clients on general strength and conditioning, with a particular focus on injury management: keeping people training safely around what hurts, and progressing them back to full capacity.
Who Catherine works with
- Clients new to structured training who want a credentialed coach, not a YouTube workout
- Athletes managing acute or chronic injuries who need programming that works around limitations
- Post-physiotherapy clients bridging from rehab back to full training
- Members who want focused 1-on-1 attention alongside their group class membership
- People returning to fitness after extended time away, surgery, illness, life changes
Credentials & approach
CrossFit Level 2 · 10+ years personal training experience. Programming emphasizes biomechanical precision, progressive overload, and intelligent regression around injury, so the parts that work stay strong while the parts that hurt heal. The unrushed, individualized timeline is the value: clients come back stronger because they weren’t pushed back too soon.
Primo Weightlifting
What it is
Primo Weightlifting is JP’s independent Olympic Weightlifting coaching company, operating on Kaos’s platforms. Specialty: 1-on-1 Olympic weightlifting development for athletes who want a coach focused exclusively on snatch, clean & jerk, and the strength behind them.
Who JP works with
- Competitive lifters preparing for sanctioned meets
- CrossFit athletes who want to fix the lifts holding them back
- Masters lifters returning to barbell sport
- Beginners who want to learn Olympic lifts properly from session one
Credentials & approach
CSCS · NCCP Comp Dev Trained. Programming combines technical refinement with strength development. Primo clients often layer JP’s coaching on top of Kaos’s group Olympic Weightlifting program to accelerate technical mastery.
GRND Athletics & Performance
What it is
GRND Athletics & Performance is Jenn’s independent personal training company, operating inside Kaos. Specialty: sport-specific performance development and the bridge between rehab and competitive return.
Who Jenn works with
- Competitive athletes building sport-specific capacity
- Post-physiotherapy clients ready to load again but not yet ready for full team practice
- Adolescent athletes building long-term physical literacy
- Masters athletes maintaining performance across decades
Credentials & approach
Sports performance specialist. Programming emphasizes movement quality, force production, and the specific demands of the sport the athlete plays. GRND clients often layer Jenn’s sessions on top of their normal team practice or Kaos classes for targeted weak-point work.
🇨🇦 Serving Members & Veterans
Kaos is veteran-founded and located 20 minutes from CFB Halifax / Stadacona. Our clinical partner Pelvico Health Centre offers direct billing through Medavie Blue Cross for CAF members and through VAC (Veterans Affairs Canada) for veterans. For many serving members and veterans, this means specialized pelvic health, postpartum care, and general physiotherapy at little or no out-of-pocket cost.
Book with Pelvico →Institutional Affiliations
Beyond our on-site partners, Kaos holds these formal affiliations and neighbourhood partnerships that shape our programming, coaching standards, and athlete pathways:
Who To Contact For What
Multi-tenant facilities are great, but they can be confusing if you don’t know who handles what. Quick reference:
| If you want… | Contact… | How |
|---|---|---|
| CrossFit / HYROX / Oly classes | Kaos CrossFit | info@kaoscrossfit.ca · 902-404-5647 |
| Physiotherapy / massage | Pelvico | pelvico.janeapp.com · 902-332-8534 |
| General PT / injury management | Cardinal, Catherine | Catherine@cardinalperformance.ca |
| Olympic Weightlifting 1-on-1 PT | Primo, JP | johnpaul_primeau@hotmail.com |
| Sport-specific or athletic development PT | GRND, Jenn | GRNDATHLETICS@outlook.com |
| InBody scan booking | Kaos CrossFit | Book online · or InBody page |
| Insurance billing / CAF / VAC | Pelvico | Through Jane App |
| Judo / grappling training | Numa Performance Judo | teamnuma.com · neighbourhood partner |
| Media inquiries | Kaos CrossFit | info@kaoscrossfit.ca |
Coming soon
Returning to running after pregnancy
Kaos force plate testing includes a return to impact battery based on the 2019 postpartum return to running guideline (Goom, Donnelly and Brockwell). We ask that a pelvic health physio has assessed you first. Pelvico Health Centre in Suite 5 offers pelvic health physiotherapy and books separately.
See force plate testingPartner FAQ
Are Pelvico, Cardinal, Primo, and GRND owned by Kaos?
Do I need a Kaos membership to work with a partner?
How do referrals work between partners?
Does Kaos vet the partners?
Why doesn’t Kaos just hire these specialists as employees?
Are there discounts for using multiple partners?
Can I bring my own physiotherapist or coach into the facility?
One Address. Five Ways To Get Better.
Whether you need coached classes, specialist 1-on-1 work, pelvic health care, or body composition tracking, it’s all happening at 114 Chain Lake Drive. Start with whichever fits your need today. You can always add the rest later.
Book Your Kaos Intro Class Book with Pelvico