Strong Bayside

Strong Bayside Functional Training, Olympic lifting & Kids Fit! Everyone from all backgrounds & fitness levels are welcome here. Achieve your best shape while having fun!

A question we get asked a lot: "Am I too old, too unfit, or too injured to start strength training?" The honest answer i...
20/09/2026

A question we get asked a lot: "Am I too old, too unfit, or too injured to start strength training?" The honest answer is almost always no — the exercise just needs to be modified.

In the same class, on the same day, working the same muscle group, you might see one member doing a bench press with barbell and another doing a supported, lighter variation on the mat — both training the exact same movement pattern and muscle group, just at the level that's right for their body, right now.

This is the whole point of coached small group training: nobody gets handed a generic program and left to figure it out. Every exercise gets adapted — to age, to ability, to old injuries, to how you're feeling that day — without anyone missing out on the actual training effect.

Strength training was never meant to be one-size-fits-all. There's a way in for every age and every ability, including yours.

Genuine question: how many times have you tried to do this completely on your own?If it's more than you'd like to admit,...
18/09/2026

Genuine question: how many times have you tried to do this completely on your own?

If it's more than you'd like to admit, you're not alone — and it's not because you lack
discipline. Sustainable change is genuinely hard to create and maintain in isolation. It tends to happen far more reliably with support: a program that's actually built around your body and this stage of life, real accountability, and people around you who understand exactly what you're going through without you having to explain it.

That's the whole premise behind Strong Bayside's small group sessions. Not another solo diet attempt, but a coached, supported approach alongside women in the same season of life.

If you're ready to try it with support this time instead of alone, come in for a free trial
session. Comment below or send us a message.

We want to share something that happens more often than you'd think in our sessions: a member who couldn't lift the empt...
16/09/2026

We want to share something that happens more often than you'd think in our sessions: a member who couldn't lift the empty bar three months ago, now loading plates onto it and lifting more than she ever thought she could.

That's what real progress looks like here — not a number on a scale, not a dress size, just proof, session by session, of what your body is actually capable of when it's trained properly and consistently.

If you've been wondering what your own version of that story could look like, we'd love to help you find out. Your first session with us is completely free — come see what you're capable of.

Send us a message or drop a comment and we'll get you booked in

That's us full for Monday 14 September.If you missed it, comment WAITLIST and I'll let you know when the next round open...
14/09/2026

That's us full for Monday 14 September.

If you missed it, comment WAITLIST and I'll let you know when the next round opens. People on that list get first pick of spots.

And to everyone starting next week: bring a water bottle and turn up curious. Your first session is a baseline scan, some measurements and a chat — you don't need to have anything sorted before you walk in. That's rather the point.

We don't think starting gets enough credit for how genuinely hard it is.Walking into a new environment, not knowing the ...
13/09/2026

We don't think starting gets enough credit for how genuinely hard it is.
Walking into a new environment, not knowing the equipment, not knowing the people, unsure what your body can even do right now — and showing up anyway. That takes real courage, even if it doesn't feel like a big moment from the outside.

If you've already taken that step with us, we see it, and we're genuinely glad you did. If you haven't yet, please know that the first session is almost always the hardest part. Everything after that tends to get easier, because you're no longer walking in blind — you know the space, the people, and roughly what to expect.

Whatever stage you're at, the courage it takes to start (or to keep going) doesn't go
unnoticed here.

Last call for the Monday 14 September round of Strong, Optimised.If you've been losing weight and quietly wondering whet...
13/09/2026

Last call for the Monday 14 September round of Strong, Optimised.

If you've been losing weight and quietly wondering whether you're losing the right thing — this is the six weeks that answers it. Properly, with numbers, not a guess in a mirror.

6 spots left. Closes Sunday 13 September.

Comment STRONG or send me a message.

Something happens around week three or four.People stop caring about the scale. Not because it's stopped moving — but be...
10/09/2026

Something happens around week three or four.

People stop caring about the scale. Not because it's stopped moving — but because they've seen their scan, and the number on the scale has become the least interesting thing about their week.

That's the shift I'm actually after. Six weeks isn't long enough to change everything. It's more than long enough to stop guessing.

8 spots left for Monday 14 September. Comment STRONG and I'll send the details.

Here's some nutrition advice that's a little less exciting than most, but far more useful: you don't need a complicated ...
10/09/2026

Here's some nutrition advice that's a little less exciting than most, but far more useful: you don't need a complicated meal plan, you need three or four meals you can make without thinking.

Pick a small handful of simple, protein-rich meals you genuinely enjoy — the kind you can throw together even on your busiest, most exhausted days. Rotate through them, add whatever vegetables you have on hand, and that's genuinely enough for most people most of the time.

The reason elaborate meal plans so often fail isn't that they're wrong in theory — it's that they're impossible to sustain once life gets busy, which for most of us is most of the time.

Simple, repeatable and boring (in a good way) beats complicated and impressive, because you'll actually still be doing it in six months.

What's your go-to "too tired to think" meal that you know you can always fall back on?

Not local? The online round is the same six weeks — same protein coaching, same training, same check-in with me, over vi...
08/09/2026

Not local? The online round is the same six weeks — same protein coaching, same training, same check-in with me, over video instead of across the desk.

You choose how we measure you:

→ Come into Bentleigh whenever you can and get the full body composition scan, same as everyone else.
→ Or track from home with measuring tape and scales. No scan, but we watch your waist and your lifts instead — and waist going down while your lifts go up tells us the same story.

I'd rather be straight with you than pretend a number I can't measure. What I won't do is have you guess at a body fat reading on a bathroom scale and then coach you off it.

Spots are shared between in-person and online, and there are 15 in this first release. Starts Monday 14 September.

DM me OPTIMISED and I'll send you the details.

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877 Nepean Highway, Bentleigh
Melbourne, VIC
3204

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Monday 6am - 7:30pm
Tuesday 6am - 7pm
Wednesday 6am - 7:30pm
Thursday 6am - 7pm
Friday 6am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 12pm

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