Posted June 23, 2012 3:54 pm by

Gym bans skinny people

Sorry, skinny people — you can’t work out here.

One gym in Canada is taking the growing “plus-size friendly” gym trend to the extreme and banning too-trim gym rats from exercising at its facility.

Body Exchange in Vancouver has a strict policy that only allows plus-size women to join their fitness center.

Founder and CEO Louise Green told TheProvince.com last week that the gym is a “safe haven” for overweight people.

“Many of our clients have not had successful fitness pasts so I can see the anxiety before we get started and I can see the relief and happiness after we finish,” she said. “People are often too fearful to become active. There wasn’t a model that offered camaraderie.”

Marty Wolff, who competed on season three of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” owns and operates the community based health club Square One in Omaha, Nebraska with wife Amy, who appeared alongside him on the televised weight loss show.