Studio Fitt

🧘 Yoga is more than stretching — it’s a practical way to support your strength, mobility and wellbeing.

Regular yoga can help you:

✅ Improve flexibility and joint range of motion
✅ Build strength and body awareness
✅ Develop balance, coordination and stability
✅ Support breathing, relaxation and stress management
✅ Move with greater confidence in everyday activities

Yoga can be adapted to suit different ages, abilities, experience levels and goals. You don’t need to be flexible or experienced to get started.

Whether you want to move more freely, complement your current training, improve your balance or simply make time for yourself, yoga may be a valuable addition to your week.

🌿 Studio F**t yoga classes are available:

📅 Tuesday nights 5:45pm
📅 Friday mornings 10:00am

🧠 Your brain needs exercise too!

When we talk about exercise, we often focus on stronger muscles, better balance or improved fitness. But movement also gives your brain an important workout.

Physical activity can help support:

✅ Blood flow to the brain
✅ Attention and concentration
✅ Coordination and reaction time
✅ Confidence with everyday movement
✅ Social connection and participation

That is where our Brain F**t classes can help. Brain F**t sessions combine movement, thinking tasks, coordination and problem-solving.

Who are Brain F**t classes for?

They may suit people who want to:
• Keep their mind active as well as their body
• Improve coordination, balance and movement confidence
• Stay socially connected through exercise
• Maintain independence
• Challenge themselves in a safe, encouraging setting

Brain F**t is not about being the fastest, strongest or most coordinated person in the room. It is about participating and practicing new skill sets to help with memory and co-ordination.

Movement does not have to look one particular way to be valuable. It can happen standing, seated, using a wheelchair, with support, with adapted equipment, or through small movements throughout the day.

Everyone moves differently, exercise may involve working on strength, coordination, balance, mobility, endurance, confidence, or simply finding ways to participate more comfortably in activities for daily living. The right approach is individual and should be shaped around the person’s movement abilities and preferences.

The goal is not to compare bodies or abilities. The goal is to support each person to move in a way that is safe and achievable.

What does being “fit” actually mean?

There is no single body type, training style or performance level that ticks the box for everyone.

Being fit might mean:

1. Having enough strength to lift, carry and move comfortably
2. Improving your balance and confidence after an injury
3. Building your endurance so you can walk, work or play without feeling exhausted
4. Managing pain and returning to the activities you enjoy
5. Feeling stronger and more capable in everyday life
6. Training for a specific sport, event or personal goal
7. Supporting your health as you get older

Fitness should be individual. Your goals, starting point, health history, lifestyle and preferences all need to be taken into concideration.

You do not have to look a certain way, lift a certain weight or follow a particular training plan to be “fit”. The best fitness plan is one that is safe, purposeful and suited to you—and helps you do more of what matters in your life.

At our allied health studio, we can help you identify meaningful goals and create a plan around your needs, whether that involves an exercise scientist, myotherapist, personal trainer, physiotherapist or a combination.

Balance is more than just standing on one leg.

It is your body’s ability to control its position while you stand, walk, reach, turn and respond to unexpected changes in your environment.

Good balance relies on several systems working together:

• Vision — helping you understand where your body is in space
• The inner ear — contributing to your sense of orientation and movement
• Proprioception — information from your muscles and joints about body position
• Strength and coordination — helping you make controlled movements
• Reaction time — allowing you to respond when you trip, slip or lose stability

Balance can affect everyday activities such as walking on uneven ground, using stairs, getting in and out of a chair, participating in sport and staying independent as you age.

The good news is that balance is a skill that can be trained. Exercises might include supported single-leg stands, controlled step-ups, heel-to-toe walking, reaching tasks and strength exercises for the legs and trunk. The right exercises depend on your current ability, goals and any health conditions or injuries.

If you have experienced a fall, feel unsteady, or avoid activities because of balance concerns, all of our exercise professionals can help assess the contributing factors and develop a suitable plan for you in our programs.

You don't need a 45-minute gym session to break up a 6-hour sitting marathon. What your body really needs is regular movement variation. 🪑⚡

When you sit in one posture for hours, your hip flexors stay shortened, upper thoracic spine locks up, and neck extensors work overtime.

Here is a nice quick and easy 60-second "movement snacks" to reset your spine:

Thoracic Extension over Chair Back: Cup hands behind your head (if you can), keep lower ribs tucked, and gently extend your upper back over the top of your chair. (5 slow breaths)

If your first reaction to an ache, tweak, or persistent tendon flare-up is to stop moving completely... you might actually be delaying your recovery. 🛑

While acute trauma (like an ankle roll or fresh fracture) needs short-term protection, chronic pain and tendinopathies thrive on calibrated load, not complete rest.

Here’s what happens when you stop moving altogether:
📉 Tissue Capacity Drops: Tendons and muscles adapt to what you demand of them. Rest decreases their tolerance.
🧠 Nervous System Sensitivity Increases: Pain thresholds lower when joints are immobilised for too long.
🔄 The Deconditioning Cycle: You rest, pain settles, you return to activity, and the tissue flares up immediately because it’s no longer strong enough.

The Allied Health Approach:
Instead of complete rest, our therapists identify your optimal loading zone—exercise that stimulates healing and rebuilds tissue capacity without overloading the irritated structure.

Spring is officially here, and with the warmer mornings comes the perfect reason for a fresh routine. 🌿

You don't need to completely change your habits or lifestyle—just a bitesize new habit. Some examples include
💧 Drink 500ml water before your morning coffee
🚶 A 15-minute sunshine walk
⏰ Getting to bed 20 minutes earlier

Something is coming to Studio F**t...

It's competitive.
It's fun.
It's for EVERYONE.

No matter your age.
No matter your fitness level.
No matter where you're starting.

One F**t cup.
Three KB trees.
And
One wooden spoon.

🏆 The F**T Cup.

Coming soon...

One Pack. Endless Possibilities.
🔗 Why limit your health to just one lane? Our 10-Pack Wellness Packages are designed for the person who wants it all. You buy 10 credits and use them however YOUR body needs them this week:

✅ Need to fix your diet? Book our Nutritionist.
✅ Feeling stuck in your lifting? Book a PT Session.
✅ Body feeling beat up? Book a Massage.

It’s the most flexible way to stay fit and healthy.
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