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Opening a Gym in Australia: Is the Market Saturated in 2026?

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The Australian fitness landscape has transformed dramatically over the past decade. Between 2015 and 2024, the number of gyms and fitness centres across the country expanded at an unprecedented rate, driven by boutique studios, 24-hour franchises, and increasingly health-conscious consumers. Now, as we move through 2026, aspiring fitness entrepreneurs face a critical question: has the […]

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Legal Steps to Prepare Your PT Business for the New Year

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The end of the year brings more than just Christmas parties and beach holidays for Australian personal trainers. It’s the perfect opportunity to ensure your legal house is in order before the new year begins. While most PTs are brilliant at designing programs and motivating clients, the legal side of running a personal training business

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6 Selling Tips To Make Your Fitness Business Boom in 2026

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The Australian fitness industry is experiencing a profound transformation. After weathering pandemic closures, navigating the hybrid training revolution, and watching consumer behaviour shift dramatically, fitness professionals across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and beyond are entering 2026 with a critical question: how do we not just survive, but genuinely thrive? The businesses that will boom in 2026

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Personal Training Clients on Weight Loss Medication

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As more Australians embark on medical weight loss treatments, many trainers now find themselves training clients on weight loss medication without fully understanding what these drugs do, how they affect exercise performance, or what’s within their professional scope. Clients may casually mention, “I’ve just started Ozempic,” leaving trainers torn between curiosity, concern and confusion. In

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Training Clients with TFCC Injury: A Practical Guide for Fitness Professionals

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You’ve worked hard programming an intense session for your client, only to have them walk into the gym clutching a crumpled radiology report and saying, “My physio says it’s a TFCC tear.” It’s normal for trainers to freeze at a point somewhere between concern, confusion, and “Wait… what complex?” before realising that all your programming

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Wattbike Air-Pro: Obsessed With Performance on the Gym Floor

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If your members love performance training, generic spin bikes probably aren’t cutting it anymore. They want real numbers, real road feel and real results… and your coaches want tools they can trust for testing, rehab and high-intensity work. That’s exactly the gap the Wattbike Air-Pro is designed to own: a commercial-grade indoor bike built for tough

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A Guide to Understanding Music Licensing For Fitness Businesses

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The soundtrack of a fitness business does more than fill silence. It sets pace in a HIIT block, softens the edges of a busy floor, and helps a new member feel like they belong. It is also, in Australia, a legal and operational choice. If you play commercially available music in a business, you are

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The Plus Fitness Playbook To Successful Scaling

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The opening of Plus Fitness Mambourin last month marked a milestone for the brand, which has seen its trajectory turbo-charge since its 2020 acquisition by ASX-listed company Viva Leisure. Mambourin marks 200 clubs opened with around 200,000 members and more sites in the pipeline across Victoria and New South Wales. For Australian gym owners, a

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Promoting Progress Over Perfection: Guiding Clients In Pursuit of The “Beach Body”

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With summer just around the corner, it’s no surprise that many Australians are starting to think about how they’ll look and feel when the weather heats up. But new survey findings show that plenty of people are still chasing the idea of the “perfect summer body” and some are willing to take extreme measures to

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Are You Going To The Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Symposium 2025?

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As a fitness professional, you already know that real results go beyond the gym floor. While strength training, conditioning, and movement are powerful tools, your clients’ health outcomes are often shaped just as much by what happens outside their workouts – nutrition, sleep, stress, and lifestyle habits. That’s why the Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine Symposium

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New Mental Health App Provides Support For Australians

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A new mental health app, Supportive Mind, has officially launched as part of a collaboration between global tech leader Infosys and the Mental Health Foundation Australia (MHFA). Designed to improve mental health awareness and offer real-time support, the app gives individuals and mental health first aiders easy access to wellbeing tools at their fingertips. What

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