Northside Movement

We just got a notice from the ATO.

Well, not Northside — but the infamous Bulleen bootcamp institution “Witfit” that I (Mike) and the great man Lukas Grounds used to run.

If the ATO is seeing this, the ABN was closed and there’s something funny going on with your system..
But that’s beside the point.

Back in 2009 we would drive down to the oval, car loaded to the brim with various bits of fitness equipment, a whiteboard and a Bose speaker.

We’d throw random exercises up on the board.. things we thought would feel hard if packaged together. We’d aim to burn everyone out by the end, because it made us feel validated as coaches that got people sweaty. And we’d pump 90s bangers on the small and portable Bose speaker.

It was playful. And it was certainly fun.

That was 17 years ago.

Some things have changed.
Some things haven’t.
90s bangers for life.

And here’s what we think about now.

Training is used as a tool to build the person up, not to break them down.
Randomly writing exercises onto a board because burn-is-best isn’t training.
Our validation as coaches is based on the elevation, feeling and improvement of the person in front of us. It’s not about us.

This week we start a new 4 week training block in the Group Program that took us over 3 hours to write up. In fact, we’re still tweaking it. And we know what we’re doing (mostly).

We spend countless hours thinking about this stuff as we want what is best for our people.

And we do this because things can be serious, challenging and intentional - whilst simultaneously being playful and fun.

Northside.
Less algorithms. Less AI. Less random stuff.
More human. 🙂

P.S. The Winning Winter Challenge starts Monday 13th - If this sounds like you’re jam, the link is in our bio.