Pittwater Life Febraury 2024 Issue
LAND VALUES QUERIED 1991AUSSIE-FIRST: BAYVIEW’S NEW ELECTRIC BOAT CHARGER GUIDE TO LOCAL SMALL GYMS / SAILOR JOHN FORBES SEEN... HEARD... ABSURD... / AV SOCCER / THE WAY WE WERE
LAND VALUES QUERIED
1991AUSSIE-FIRST: BAYVIEW’S NEW ELECTRIC BOAT CHARGER GUIDE TO LOCAL SMALL GYMS / SAILOR JOHN FORBES SEEN... HEARD... ABSURD... / AV SOCCER / THE WAY WE WERE
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Small gyms but perfect<br />
Why more and<br />
more people<br />
are turning to<br />
smaller local<br />
gyms to meet<br />
their fitness<br />
goals in <strong>2024</strong>.<br />
CHANGE: Small<br />
spaces are big<br />
on wellbeing<br />
News<br />
There are a host of small,<br />
bespoke and boutique<br />
gyms across <strong>Pittwater</strong><br />
that provide an antidote to<br />
the big chains where you<br />
can sometimes just become<br />
a “number”. While some<br />
gyms rely on people joining<br />
and don’t mind if you never<br />
attend as it doesn’t affect<br />
their revenue model, the<br />
smaller fitness studios want<br />
people to turn up regularly.<br />
Core Culture at Newport<br />
and No-Nonsense at Avalon<br />
are just two examples of the<br />
“fitness downsizing” trend.<br />
Pierre Ainscow opened<br />
No-Nonsense gym three years<br />
ago with his wife Nina, in a<br />
shopfront next to Oliver’s Pies<br />
in North Avalon. Eighteen<br />
months ago they opened<br />
a second one. Previous to<br />
that they had been running<br />
a mobile fitness business<br />
called Momentum, with a<br />
popular product line called<br />
No-Nonsense. They rebranded<br />
and the phrase ‘no nonsense’<br />
is the ethos they work to.<br />
“I feel like there’s a bunch<br />
of noise in the fitness<br />
industry at the moment and<br />
it’s all quite sensationalist,<br />
especially on social media,”<br />
said Pierre. “People with<br />
unobtainable appearances<br />
lifting ridiculous weights,<br />
which takes a dedication that<br />
most normal people just can’t<br />
afford to give.”<br />
Pierre says they run small<br />
groups capped intentionally<br />
low, and help people achieve<br />
more realistic and tangible<br />
goals.<br />
“I prefer people not to<br />
have aesthetics goals or<br />
numbers on a scale – I’m all<br />
for people losing weight, but<br />
I’d rather a goal was walking<br />
to Barrenjoey Lighthouse<br />
without getting out of breath.<br />
“We want to cut out the<br />
noise. There are only so<br />
many ways to exercise and<br />
ultimately a squat is a squat,<br />
no matter what approach you<br />
take.”<br />
It’s a lovely, very human<br />
approach that very much suits<br />
its location. It’s also backed<br />
up by real science. Nina has a<br />
bachelor’s degree in Human<br />
Movement and all of the trainers<br />
are degree-educated with<br />
a depth of knowledge. But the<br />
end result is never intimidating,<br />
like some gyms.<br />
“Most of the people who<br />
22 FEBRUARY <strong>2024</strong><br />
The Local Voice Since 1991
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