Northern Beaches Outdoor Training
Health & Fitness Report
Step into Life Group Outdoor Personal Training
Our Manly Members - Get Your First Three Step into Life Session Free. A $50 Value!
Step into Life Group Outdoor Personal Training offers outdoor exercise and group fitness programs in Manly. Step into Life is dedicated to providing a comfortable and fun way to get fit and healthy on the Northern Beaches.
Our Manly Lifestyle Editor interviews Franchise Owner Garry Robinson about group outdoor personal training, fitness and exercise in Manly.
Our Manly: Benefits of group outdoor personal training?
Garry Robinson: People get more out of exercise when they do it with others. Team sports have proven that. But, in the past, if you had a gym buddy you’d be restricted to their schedule. What I wanted to do when I started this business was organize everybody’s friends so that you’d always have somebody to work out with. It lowers the cost of having a personal trainer and you get the benefit of team training.
Our Manly: It makes losing weight sound fun…
Garry Robinson: You’re going to make friends. Our members have lots in common. They love training outdoors and having a laugh. Group outdoor personal training attracts fun-loving, sociable people. The group environment is very supportive. I encourage members to share their goals with each other. If everybody knows your goals, they can help you achieve them. Everyone shares in achieving your personal training goals and that feels great.
Our Manly: There is a serious side to getting in shape- for health reasons like losing weight, for instance. How does outdoor fitness and group training address that? Step into Life offers some pretty clever ways to track and improve your fitness. It starts with a thorough assessment, then what?
Garry Robinson: Step into Life uses unique database software to track each member’s progress from the beginning. Your personal trainer makes notes at every workout, recording times, reps, weight, distances, heart rate and enters that information into the database. This way, The trainer comes to each session fully prepared, knowing a member’s abilities; age, injuries they might have, how much weight they can lift, how hard they like to train, whether or not they are pregnant. That way a trainer can match the individual to the exercise.
Every four weeks we measure fitness, typically through a time trial. Every eight weeks we do a full fitness assessment. After a few of these, members get a report putting side by side all previous efforts in easy to read bar graphs. You can actually see your improvements visually and that is very rewarding.
Our Manly: Do you already have to be fit to get started with Step into Life?
Garry Robinson: No! We train people of all ages and fitness levels. The Step into Life system has been developed over fourteen years to ensure that no matter what fitness level you are at, you will be challenged accordingly. Everybody gets the right intensity of workout.
Our Manly: How do you make sure it doesn’t get boring?
Garry Robinson: When you hire a personal trainer, you are limited to what is going on in their head. And you don’t want to get stuck doing the same program over and over again. Since the body quickly adapts to routine, exercise has to be constantly evolving. Step into Life has hundreds of workout plans in its training system, all developed and tested by qualified personal trainers and sports scientists. It is very unlikely that you would do the same workout twice.
Our Manly: There are lots of interesting and fun ways to get fit these days.
Garry Robinson: It’s all about variety. Step into Life has employed respected fitness industry leaders to develop their programs and workout sessions. Our programs include kick boxing, boot camps, yoga and pilates style workouts, core conditioning as well as cardiovascular and resistance training. It’s never boring!
And people really like getting regular performance reports from Step into Life. No other Northern Beaches training group has such a comprehensive system.
Our Manly: Tell us how group outdoor personal training in the morning helps you sleep at night.
Garry Robinson: If you expose yourself to the first 30 minutes of daylight you’ll have a better chance at a getting good quality sleep at night. That’s in addition to all the other health benefits of exercising outdoors. Step into Life is very convenient for people with 9 to 5 jobs who want to exercise before or after work. You know you can just rock up and there are going to be some friends you can work out with.
Our Manly Members - Get Your First Three Step into Life Sessions Free. A $50 Value!
Our Manly: Our Manly members can get three free Step into Life sessions. That’s a great deal.
Garry Robinson: Since every workout is different, three sessions gives you a good feel for the variety on offer. You might do a cardiovascular session, a resistance workout and a kickboxing session. It also gives the trainer a chance to assess your fitness, to find out what your goals are and design a program that is unique to you. It’s a good idea of what a typical week is going to be like.
Our Manly: Where are Manly Step into Life sessions held?
Garry Robinson: We always start our sessions in Hinkler Park on Pittwater Road in Manly. It’s a great meeting spot with bathrooms, a place to lock up your bike and a car park. It’s discreet, safe and secure.
Our Manly: That’s great, Garry. Thanks so much for telling us more about group outdoor personal fitness in Manly. Step into Life has so many advantages.
Garry Robinson: The main point of difference is that it’s not just me in the park making up exercises. Step into Life is a comprehensive, structured training system with a lot of background and support. There is an incentive and reward system called Training Club, fitness assessments, regular fitness reports, and exciting new workout sessions for people of all ages and all fitness levels. It’s fun and it’s guaranteed to get results.
Our Manly Members - Get Your First Three Step into Life Sessions Free.
A $50 Value!