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Our Gym started in October 2020 with a simple idea: our community needed more.
More than just somewhere to train. A place to belong. A place to make friends, feel supported, challenge yourself and feel at home.
Owners Tim and Lauren are a local family who have poured everything into building Our Gym. What started with a big idea has involved a whole lot of blood, sweat, tears, long hours, hard lessons and plenty of learning along the way.
Tim has worked in the fitness industry for more than 20 years. Before starting Our Gym, he had built a successful career as a group fitness instructor and personal trainer, as well as teaching Certificate III and IV in Fitness at TAFE. He has gone on to become a Les Mills Advanced Elite Trainer across multiple programs.
Fitness has always been a huge part of Tim's life, but building a gym that genuinely brings people together has become something much bigger.
Lauren comes from a background in teaching and, after having their first child and starting Our Gym, discovered a real passion for supporting women through pregnancy, motherhood and their return to exercise. She is a certified Safe Return to Exercise MumSafeTM Trainer and Les Mills group fitness instructor, with a particular passion for helping women feel strong, capable and confident in their bodies.
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For us, Our Gym has never just been about the equipment, the classes or the four walls.
It's about our people.
As we've grown, we've put just as much thought into growing the right team as we have into growing the gym. We genuinely care about our people. Our team has become like family to us, because we spend so much of our lives together.
We invest our time, our energy, our resources and our trust into our people because we believe that when you invest in your team, they can invest in the community around them.
Our team brings decades of combined experience across fitness, group exercise, personal training and coaching. But experience alone isn't what we're looking for. We look for people who are committed to learning, growing, supporting one another and continually becoming better at what they do.
We're a team.
A champion team, not a team of champions.
We don't compete with each other.
We lift each other up.
We share knowledge, celebrate each other's wins, support each other through the hard days and continue to learn together.
We're united by a shared purpose: to create an environment where our members feel welcomed, supported, challenged and proud to be part of Our Gym. Because when our team lifts each other up, we're able to lift our entire community up with us.
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We never set out to build a gym as a business.
We set out to build something our community needed.
From day one, every dollar of our savings — and our family's savings — went into Our Gym. Every profit has been reinvested back into the gym, from new equipment and facilities to expanding our group fitness timetable and creating more opportunities for our members.
Six years on, that philosophy hasn't changed.
We're still a small business with a very big heart. Every membership, every class booking, every referral, every kind word and every person who chooses to support Our Gym genuinely matters to us.
When you support a local small business, you're supporting real people, real families and someone's dream, hard work and livelihood. For us, that support has allowed us to continue investing back into our community and building something we're incredibly proud of.
Our Gym has grown, but at the heart of it, we're still a local family-owned gym that believes fitness is about so much more than exercise. It's about the people you meet, the friendships you make, the confidence you build and having a place where you feel like you belong.
And now, we're taking our next big leap of faith.
Our Gym Raymond Terrace is coming soon.
A second Our Gym, built with the same values, the same passion and the same belief that a great gym can become so much more than a place to work out.