Training / Burleigh Heads
Personal Trainer in Burleigh Heads — Mobile Strength Training for Adults Over 50
I come to you. Groups of two or three, or one to one, at your home or a park nearby. All the equipment arrives in the car.
I’m a mobile personal trainer working in Burleigh Heads, and I train adults over 50. There is no studio to drive to and no membership to hold — I bring the weights to your living room, your garage, or a park down the road. I’m a physiotherapist by training, though what I run through this business is strength coaching rather than treatment. Everything is measured on the first session and retested six weeks later, so the question of whether it is working has an answer rather than an opinion.
Why mobile makes sense here
Burleigh is a difficult suburb to drive across at the wrong time of day. The highway end backs up through most of the morning, parking near the beach is competitive from about eight, and a forty-minute session turns into ninety once you count both directions and the walk from the car.
That gap is where training quietly stops. Not because anyone decided to give it up — because twice a week became inconvenient, then optional. Removing the drive removes the most common reason people fall off in the first three months.
The apartment question
A good part of Burleigh’s over-50s live in apartments along the Esplanade and back toward Burleigh Waters, and the first question is almost always whether there is enough room.
There usually is. A session needs about three metres by three metres of clear floor, which most living rooms have once a coffee table moves. Everything I bring is adjustable and quiet — no dropped barbells, nothing hitting a tiled floor above a neighbour. If the space genuinely will not work I will say so on the first visit, and we will use the building’s common area or a park instead.
Where sessions run in Burleigh Heads
Most people train at home, which is the simplest option and the one that survives a bad week. Beyond that, the beachfront parkland along Goodwin Terrace works well for a morning session, and the flat ground near Tallebudgera Creek suits anyone who would rather not train indoors.
The headland at Burleigh Head National Park comes up often, and it is worth being direct about it. The hill is genuinely useful conditioning and I use it with people who are already walking comfortably. It is not where anyone starts. Loading a set of stairs before the legs can hold a controlled sit-to-stand is how people end up sore enough to stop.
If you already belong to a gym in Burleigh and would rather use it, that works too. You are paying for it either way.
Who I train in Burleigh
- You have been told to do some weights and had no idea where to start.
- You have just been diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis.
- You are through menopause and can feel the difference.
- You have retired to Burleigh and noticed things getting harder since.
- You still surf, golf or walk the headland, and want another decade of it.
And who I don't
If you have had a recent fall, use a frame or a stick, or are carrying pain nobody has looked at yet, the right first call is a physiotherapist or your GP. Assessment is a different job from coaching, and you should have the first before you buy the second.
Tell me and I will point you at someone in Burleigh who does it. That costs you nothing and I would rather you got the right thing.
What a session looks like
Two or three people, matched on rough ability, capped at three so I can still correct every repetition. Everyone in the group runs their own program against a shared warm-up, so two people can be doing the same movement at very different loads without either of them standing around.
Four tests on day one — a thirty-second sit-to-stand, grip strength, single-leg balance and a loaded carry — repeated at six weeks. They take about ten minutes and they are the difference between thinking you are getting stronger and knowing it.
If you would rather not train in front of anyone, one to one is the better start, and there is no expectation of moving into a group later. The full detail on both formats is on the training page.
What it costs
Small group is charged per person and comes out considerably below one to one, which is the practical reason most people manage twice a week rather than once a fortnight. Final pricing is being confirmed — call and I will tell you plainly what it costs and what it includes. Travel within Burleigh is not charged.
Beyond Burleigh Heads
Burleigh Waters, Miami, Palm Beach, Varsity Lakes, Mermaid Waters, Elanora, Currumbin and Reedy Creek are all a short drive and run on the same terms. The rest of the Gold Coast is covered as well, from Coomera down to the border. If you are further out, ask, and I will tell you honestly whether the travel works well enough to be worth your money.
This is personal training, not physiotherapy
Alpine provides strength and conditioning coaching only — no assessment, diagnosis, or hands-on treatment. Please speak to your GP before starting, and if what you need is physiotherapy, tell me and I'll refer you on.
If you came here for something specific
Common questions
One to one is normally priced per session and small group is priced per person, which is why the per-person figure is always the lower of the two. What matters more than the headline rate is what a session includes — whether programming, retesting and equipment are part of it or charged separately. Alpine’s pricing is being finalised. Call and I will tell you plainly what it costs and what is included.
Rates vary widely depending on whether you are paying for a studio, a gym membership on top, or a trainer who travels to you. A mobile trainer has no premises to fund, which removes one cost from the equation, and there is no membership to hold. Alpine’s rates are being confirmed before launch rather than quoted here and then changed.
At twice a week, $400 a month works out to roughly eight or nine sessions, so about $45 to $50 each. For one to one that would be unusually low; for small group it is closer to normal. The more useful question is what you get for it — a program that progresses, and a retest at six weeks that tells you whether it worked.
Enough to train twice a week for at least six weeks, because that is the point at which the numbers move and you can judge it on evidence rather than on how you feel. One session a week you can sustain beats two you cannot. If the budget only stretches to one, small group is usually how people make twice a week work.
Yes. A session needs roughly three metres by three metres of clear floor, which most living rooms have once a coffee table moves. If the space genuinely will not work, the building’s common area or a park nearby will, and I will tell you which after a look on the first visit.
No. I bring the equipment to you. If you already belong to a gym in Burleigh and would rather use it, that works too, but nobody needs to join anything to train with me.
Burleigh Waters, Miami, Palm Beach, Varsity Lakes, Mermaid Waters, Elanora, Currumbin and Reedy Creek are all within a short drive and are covered on the same terms. Further north and west across the Gold Coast is fine as well — ask and I will tell you honestly whether the travel works.
Come and try a session in Burleigh
Two or three people, or one to one. All equipment supplied.