Meet Kelly · Owner · Personal Trainer
Your health is my business.
Kelly built Gym & Tonic around a simple idea: exercise should make everyday life feel more possible - not make people feel like they have to become someone else before they belong.
Meet Kelly
People first. Movement with purpose.
Kelly Ranta is the owner and personal trainer behind Gym & Tonic in Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands. Her work brings together personal training, group fitness and specialized older-adult exercise with a friendly, practical style that keeps the focus on what clients actually want to do in their lives.
For some people that means feeling stronger and more energetic. For others it means improving balance, getting up from a chair more easily, recovering confidence after a fall, travelling comfortably or maintaining the strength to remain active and independent at home.
Specialized older-adult fitness
Kelly’s training includes the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging’s Seniors’ Fitness Instructor Course (SFIC), developed with Western University’s School of Kinesiology, along with Level 1 and 2 Fitness for Older Adults training.
She has experience facilitating VON’s Stand Up program and working one-on-one with people living with Parkinson’s disease and people recovering from stroke. She is also a registered social service worker and is fully insured.
CCAA Seniors’ Fitness Instructor CertificationOfficial program information - Western UniversityWhy “Gym & Tonic”?
“Gym” is the physical side - strength, mobility, balance and staying active. “Tonic” is what movement can give back - confidence, energy, self-care, community and the feeling that comes from doing something good for yourself.
A Manitoulin lifestyle
The Gym & Tonic experience connects Kelly’s fitness work with her waterfront vacation property at 41 A Nemis Road and its on-site gym, creating one place where locals can train and visitors can stay, move and experience Manitoulin Island at their own pace.
Start with what matters
What do you want your body to help you do?
Tell Kelly where you are now and what you would like to keep doing, return to or feel more confident doing.
Talk to Kelly