A big favourite at What’s New in Fitness because small training aids and tools can compliment your general fitness offering and bring alive your one-on-one PT sessions and your group fitness training and performance sessions (such as HIIT) by offering exercise variety and variations at a personal level and training intensity and that can make the difference between your members coming back or not! Check this out on a regular basis, there is always something new hitting (or about to) the Australian market.
Updated 30th August 2026. Sauna has quietly become one of the most talked-about additions to the Australian wellness landscape, and this August it reached a new milestone. The Big Sweat, a two-day national sauna festival hosted by Blue Mountains Sauna in Leura, brought together sauna operators, practitioners and enthusiasts from across the country on 22–23 […]
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If you’ve been training clients for more than a few months, you’ve had the conversation: someone mentions they’ve started using a “spike mat” for their back, or they saw one on a mate’s Instagram story, and they want to know if it’s worth trying, or whether you’d recommend one yourself. Acupressure mats (also called spike
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What prospective franchisees need to know about Australia’s fastest-growing wellness brand and its game-changing new offering. The Australian wellness industry is crowded, competitive, and full of franchises making nearly identical promises. Community. Movement. Recovery. Belonging. The language is familiar because almost everyone uses it. So when a franchise finds a genuine point of difference, one
If you’ve been thinking about introducing boxing into your fitness offerings but keep putting it off, this one’s for you. We sat down with British Olympic bronze medallist and global boxing fitness entrepreneur Tony Jeffries to get the unfiltered truth on what works, what doesn’t, and exactly how Australian gym owners can turn boxing into
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Article by Mish Wright. If you believe the current fitness headlines, there’s only one prescription for midlife women: lift heavy and lift often. Strength training is vital — no argument there — but the problem is the way it’s become the only message. Cardio is being quietly cancelled, as if running, cycling, swimming, or even
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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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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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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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Article written by Mish Wright. Let’s clear this up right away: the pelvic floor is a muscle. Like any other muscle in the body, it can get weak and dysfunctional, it can be too tight and dysfunctional, and here’s the good news – it can get stronger at any age or stage of life. But
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The Aussie thirst for gym facilities is as strong as ever and the greatest challenge for fitness business owners is retaining members in a highly competitive market. There are some pieces of equipment that you could expect to find in pretty much any fitness centre, such as weight plates, dumbbells and cardio machines, but what
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For a long time, the equipment central to group fitness was very slow to innovate. As a world leader when it comes to group exercise programming, Les Mills has been in a unique position to develop cutting edge equipment that integrates seamlessly into group fitness classes, improving safety and delivering maximum results. It’s been a
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From the arrangement of cardio equipment down to the colour of the walls, Juliana Mare chats to design experts to find out their top tips for gym floor design to maximise functionality and member enjoyment. The importance of gym flooring design for member retention What convinces a person to join a gym? Of course, factors
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