Providing personal training and group fitness since 2006.
Train with us in our fully equipped, custom-built gym in the heart of the City. We love coaching our clients in a supportive and motivating training environment, ensuring your training experience is rewarding and fulfilling.
We have a broad range of training options to suit every one, including CrossFit and Bootcamp, however personal training is our key service. At each session we focus on you! We evaluate your strengths & weaknesses and tailor training programs that meet your needs and help you reach your fitness goals.
Owner and head trainer, Bernie Dowling has been running around Canberra working in the fitness industry for close to 20 years. Bernie’s love of fitness and people is the perfect combination for challenging, supportive and inspiring training sessions. Bernie trains regularly himself, is an experienced CrossFit athlete, loves CrossFit for himself and has been to the CrossFit Australia regionals in 2010 and 2012. His favourite TV show is Vikings and his favourite Canberra restaurant is Italian and Sons. When Bernie isn’t training with clients he can usually be found at the gym training himself or at home renovating. If he had more time each week he would work on his stretching and flexibility.
Kristy says the best thing about being a Personal Trainer is getting to know her clients and witnessing their evolution both physically and mentally. In terms of training, Kristy searches for a healthy balance of mobility, stability, strength and aerobic training. Kristy’s favourite movie is the Breakfast Club and favourite restaurant is the Elk and Pea, Braddon. If she had more time each week Kristy would do more yoga and when she isn’t training clients you might find her gas-bagging, stretching, rehab-ing, pre-habing, laughing, lunching, brunching and walking up mountains.
Lachie thinks meeting and helping a variety of people improve their physical condition are the best things about being a personal trainer. His personal favourite training is running and boxing and if you could give him any holiday he’d love to go to the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens Tournament. Lachie’s favourite Canberra Restaurant is the Kingo and if he isn’t there, or training in the gym you might find him on a running track. If Lachie had more time each week he’d use it for stretching and reading and if Lachie could tell his younger self something it would be to learn another language and get a haircut.
Tara loves seeing people transform and enjoy training. Her personal favourite type of exercise is CrossFit but if she had more time each week she would not only train more but with a wider variety of training. Her dream holiday destination is Africa and her favourite Canberra restaurant is the Dumpling House. Tara would tell her younger self to save money and start training earlier.
For Jason the best thing about being a personal trainer is showing people what their body and mind is capable of doing. For his own training, Jason likes Crossfit and strength training. His favourite holidays are those where he isn’t relaxing and where there is some adventure, he lists Tebet (Everest) Africa (Kilimanjaro) and PNG (Kokoda). Jason’s favourite TV show is The Unit and his favourite restaurant is Grease Monkeys. When Jason’s not training clients he can be found training himself or with my fiancé. If he could tell his younger self something it would be not to settle for second, strive to be the best you can be and go for what you want.
What do you want to get out of your training?
Improve your health overall? Hope to lose some weight? Finally conquer that goal? Do you need some rehabilitation? Perform at your best in your chosen sport (Elite exercise programming)? Company and support while you get some regular exercise? There are so many reasons to train with us.
Bottom line – if you want to train with us, we’d love to train with you!
Personal training involves personal exercise and coaching sessions, all about you and the goals you set. Because we have a gym which was custom built to provide personal training, training with us means you enjoy the benefits of an indoor environment with easy access to the outdoors, high quality equipment, privacy and workouts tailored to your needs, goals and abilities.
Your personal trainer will work with you to ensure you are getting everything you need from your sessions. You can train as many times each week as you like and may choose to combine your PT sessions with any of our other program, including Boot Camp, HIIT29 or CrossFit.
Personal Training 1:1 sessions – from $80 per sessions
Personal Training 1:2 sessions – from $50 per person per session
HIIT29 is our high intensity, low impact, interval training program. With plenty of opportunities to train each week, these classes are tailored to maximise value, results and success and are only 29 minutes long — anybody can find time for that!
Introductory membership pricing $39 per week
(limited number of places available)
We have been operating Bootcamp at Lake Burley Griffin since 2005. It runs all year round, rain, hail or shine (but mostly shine!).
It’s great value and a highly flexible way to train as our Bootcampers can attend as many sessions as they like each week — morning and evening.
$150 for 4 weeks of unlimited sessions
CrossFit is functional movement performed at high intensity that is constantly varied. Each day there is a different workout and everyone does that workout – no matter which session you attend. Sometimes the aim is to complete the workout as fast as you can and other times the aim is to perform movements as many times as possible.
Almost everyone can do CrossFit! Some of our CrossFitters are amazingly fit and others are doing amazingly well but perform at a moderated/scaled level. Everyone works hard and pushes hard to improve while supporting each other — it’s a great way to train. From $55 per week, see website for more pricing info
Try CrossFit Smash for free – book into a free induction session today
We offer a range of options for organisations to provide corporate fitness and coaching packages to boost the health, fitness, productivity and well being of their teams. If there’s something you want for your team/company get in touch and we’ll design something to suit you.
Options include: Fitness challenges, ongoing fitness training packages (corporate boot camps, group fitness sessions), health assessments, corporate events, staffed gym hire with customized training packages and corporate personal training.
We train a lot of clients who have rehabilitation needs and we can work closely with your health professional to navigate the path to success.
We offer a rehabilitation training package in conjunction with Matthew Croger at Capital Clinic Physiotherapy. We work together to provide a measured approach to fitness and rehabilitation with close professional monitoring of your ability and improvements. If you are suffering from an injury and want to manage and rehabilitate the injury while returning to exercise and improving strength and fitness, this is a sound way to start.
Testimonials
“Each session with Body to Burn is challenging and fun. They listen to my goals and motivate me to push past perceived limits. My sessions have installed a sense of confidence and pride in my body and well-being – thank you!”
Testimonials
“5 years on and still finding a purpose to continue turning up twice a week.”
BodytoBurn HQ
Ground Floor 7 London Circuit,
Canberra ACT 2601,
Australia
