Synergise Health and Fitness Centre

Meeting of the minds…. Since joining the Geelong Canoe Club I have met some amazing people. These two ladies top my list! Jay from runs an awesome program - She Paddles as well as a runs children’s programs and runs birthday parties on the water. If you want to gain confidence in the boats, she’s your go to # # . Suzanne from Selki Watersport supplies the best wear gear and really helpful, down to earth advice on what to invest in to make your paddling experience the best it can be. She is also a fabulous friendly face for the Geelong Dragon Boat Club inc. who run free trials for those who want to experience the water as part of a fun and friendly team # # #

A meeting with like minded women!

We have all started our own small business and met up today in Geelong for a coffee and a chat about how we can support each other.

Meet Jodie (left) who has Synergise Health and Fitness Centre and runs a range of exercise and gym session for all levels.

That's me Susannah in the middle with Selki Watersport. I retail quality watersport clothing.

Jay is on the right with Outside Adventures and she runs fantastic canoe and kayak paddle sessions.

Really looking forward to working together.

Meeting of the minds…. Since joining the Geelong Canoe Club I have met some amazing people. These two ladies top my list! Jay from Outside Adventures runs an awesome program - She Paddles as well as a children’s programs and kids birthday parties on the water. If you want to gain confidence in the boats, she’s your go to # # . Suzanne from Selki Watersport supplies the best wear gear and really helpful, down to earth advice on what to invest in to make your paddling experience the best it can be. She is also a fabulous friendly face for the Geelong Dragon Boat Club inc. who run free trials for those who want to experience the water as part of a fun and friendly team # # #

A meeting with like minded women!

We have all started our own small business and met up today in Geelong for a coffee and a chat about how we can support each other.

Meet Jodie (left) who has Synergise Health and Fitness Centre and runs a range of exercise and gym session for all levels.

That's me Susannah in the middle with Selki Watersport. I retail quality watersport clothing.

Jay is on the right with Outside Adventures and she runs fantastic canoe and kayak paddle sessions.

Really looking forward to working together.

What an awesome morning to finish of a week of gratitude! After Saturday’s floods and watching the water rise to within 5 mm of the gym floor (my gosh! Talk about someone watching over us!) we kicked of Monday morning in party mode and ran the theme of testing our limits and celebrating our wins all week.

This morning we reran our fitness test and I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting to see any improvement in our results. After a really tough winter where most of us battled chest infections and fatigue due to COVID, Flu and other health challenges, we all felt like we were lagging in our cardio capacity and even in staying consistent in our workout routines. But we all have done what we could, when we could and though our performances on the gym floor didn’t feel like groundbreaking moments, getting together each day left us all feeling better mentally and kept us from backsliding even further.

What an amazing and pleasant surprise when we smashed through the test - all of us reaching new personal bests and recovering so much faster than our last test in Autumn! The improvements each day felt so small we barely noticed them, yet the cumulative effect was profound! I’m not lifting my heaviest ever, weighing my lightest, looking my most sculpted or jumping my highest, or even feeling my youngest. But I am the fittest, most flexible, able to do the widest range of activities for the longest and fastest to recover than I have ever been! Not all progress comes with bells and whistles, but the best rewards come quietly, bit by bit, almost unnoticed.

And best of all, I get to share the experience with my crew of awesome people who train with me! Such a wonderful catch up this morning at our breakfast ar Rosie’s where we all realised how far we have come over such a dark time, and how much brighter the future is before us. Not because our circumstances changed, but because we kept plodding on in spite of our circumstances. True Strength - mental and physical is gained in the ordinary when surrounded and inspired by extraordinary people. Love my tribe!

Hey team awesome, with Marnock road currently a river, we finally have a good reason not to go to gym 😂😂😂😂. Synergise is temporarily swimergise…. Come join us at Roses Jones for a coffee and a laugh instead this morning # #

Is another challenge really the best next step for your health and fitness journey?
We’ve been running 6 week challenges for years, and the results have been amazing – and long lasting for many of our clients. Challenges are a great way to reboot the system, detox and realign your nutrition and training so you can really see some dramatic changes in a relatively short time. They plant the seeds for great habits, and with the right mindset, set you up for an ongoing healthy lifestyle. I did my first challenge 4 years ago, and it really was the best option for me at that time.
But what I have noticed since COVID is that challenges are not the best option for many of our clients. After so many false starts between lockdowns/isolations, shifts in our priorities, mental fatigue and uncertainty, the pressure and commitment of a challenge can actually be counterproductive. As we step out of the fast lane and take stock of what is really important to us and the need for a more balanced lifestyle, what most of my clients need now is a long term strategy with gradual but sustainable lifestyle changes and the opportunity to regain confidence and trust in themselves.
Our Winter Warriors course is a 3 month program designed to help you learn the fundamentals of mindset, training and nutrition so you can start where you are at and improve each area at a pace that aligns to your values, priorities, resources and lifestyle. We have the rest of our lives to enjoy our health and well being, so its important that we learn to love the journey as much as the results, and don’t sacrifice our long term health by rushing into short term gains.
Week Zero kicks off this week as we set ourselves up for success, identify our core values and build out our reason for committing to the program in the first place. We will be taking stock of where we are at – finding our true starting point, and deciding on our next steps, micro goals and standards as we strive for progress over perfection. We will also be covering the general principles of nutrition before diving into our whole foods eating strategy which we will explore more fully over the first month.
I will be sharing snippets of the program with you here on our page, but the real value and content will be shared via our training app and private facebook group. Come join us at the Synergise Sanctuary (The program is included for all Synergise foundation members), or message me to join us online for just $15.00 per week. You don’t need to live in Geelong to benefit from our Winter Warriors program! The knowledge you gain will serve you a lifetime, and even better, you get to be an active part of our wonderful tribe that Thrives.

A lot of transformation has occurred over the last three months since Synergise came to life - both in the facility, within its community, and also with myself. In that time, we have gained a lot of clarity about who we are, where we want to go, and who we want to attract to grow with us.

Thanks so much to everyone who has supported us during the transition! It’s time now to consolidate and focus on what we really value, and let all else fall away. I created this page to promote our gym and help those looking for their safe place to find us. My ongoing profile issues have meant this page is unable to reach a wider Audience. We have set up a new page - Synergise Health and Fitness and will be closing this page and continuing the next chapter there.

Please come and join us as on Facebook at Synergise Health and Fitness as we kick off our Winter Warriors program from Monday. Follow my foundational members as we spend the next 3 months learning more about nutrition, mindset and training to build bodies and lifestyles that will serve us not just for our short term goals, but for life! Better still, come join us at the gym and do the program with us # # #.

Love my tribe and love the road we are travelling together # # #

Needed this this morning, and feel so much better for having done it….. is it something that might benefit you too? This weekend I was feeling pretty s**t - those who know me know that’s not something I admit to easily (or often). Since moving to Synergise, I was finally getting my health back, doing classes, joining Strong fit and remembering that pre-COVID energy and sense of fun that came naturally from working out. I started to feel like maybe It’s my turn to live too - over Covid I allowed myself to be consumed by those who needed my energy more, and there were always so many who needed it that I stopped doing the things that fire me up and eventually burnt out.
Exercising again brought me back to life! Though scary at first - I knew I had lost strength, I was easily out of breath and not sure I could handle finding out just how weak I had become - or how badly I would pull up after the first class! Sound familiar? Lol. This past fortnight I fell back into that old pattern - running classes but not doing them and letting my consequent low energy fuel my tiredness and doubt in my worthiness, ability to train and my old friend depression managed to catch up with me.

I realised the tiredness wasn’t just physical, it was emotional - i had gone back into old patterns and picked up old baggage, of self doubt, shame and self sabotage. Joy, hope, optimism weren’t just things I couldn’t see or feel, they were things I convinced myself I didn’t deserve. Time to start working on me again - doing something I normally don’t enjoy at first, but that usually brings relief lol time to meditate. Kyle provided the perfect narrative for me this morning, and I hope he can do the same for you. He starts by getting us to write down the source of our own shame - the things we heard as children, the things we hear (and even repeat to ourselves) now. If you are feeling shame, I strongly recommend you give this meditation a go. The relief for me was instant - still more work to do to break the patterns that keep bringing me here, but definitely on the right track after meditating # # #

Guided Meditation For Releasing Shame - Kyle Cease What are some shame-based sentences you say to yourself? Maybe something you heard as a child, from a spouse or from yourself?In this meditation, Kyle guides...

Community - just spent an amazing weekend celebrating community - that of my Synergise Health and Fitness Centre tribe and the way we all pull together to help each other achieve their best, that of the Geelong Canoe Club who rocked up and helped out at Saturday’s working bee, and that of our gorgeous Yoga teacher Madhu who hosted a wonderful dinner for her own tribe - Yoga for the People on Sunday.

IN a society that seems to be struggling right now, I am so blessed to be surrounded by community oriented people. Those who understand the joy of being part of something bigger than themselves…. Who understand that if we all give a little, everyone gains a lot. There will always be takers as long as people believe there is scarcity, but the givers are the ones who most often experience the joys of abundance.

Where everyone is valued, seen, heard and connected with, we come to understand that what we do and who we are matters. We are valuable in our own right, and our strengths combined can more than compensate for our individual weaknesses.

So many of us have been trying to be everything to everyone, burning ourselves out thinking we have to do it all by ourselves, when the real benefits of our journey come from working together, learning from each other and helping each other out. Deep down, we all want, need and even value the same things. We have knowledge to gain from our mentors in the community, and knowledge to share with those who follow our path. It doesn’t just take a village to raise a child, it takes a village to raise a healthy adult too!

Love my tribe and adore the volunteers who have come together to create this magical place! So blessed to have found this space and have the honour of sharing it with more of the community.

COME AND TRY DRAGON BOATING

Workout of the week team awesome! Ben has put together a lovely little fitness test that you can do at home, or join us in class for that extra push. Will take you between 9 and 25 minutes depending on your fitness level. Give it a go this week and post your time. We will be repeating every 4 weeks or so to measure your progress. Not enough of a chalkenge you say? Then finish it off with our death by E.M.O.M. Starting with 4 jumping Lunges, 2 Vups and 1 Ninja Get up and adding one of each every minute till you can’t complete it within the minute. Most of our amazing crew got through 8 rounds (just) lol. Great sweatfest and push to be done onsite or at home # # . Remember to post your results here and/or on the board in the gym # # #

Synergise Health and Fitness Centre updated their business hours.

Synergise Health and Fitness Centre updated their phone number.

Synergise Health and Fitness Centre is now on WhatsApp.

Working Bee Saturday 19 March 2022 at 10am

Please come along and help at the working bee. You will need to bring your own gloves, brooms, rakes, shovels and a wheelbarrow if you have one to help out as the Club has a limited supply. There is a long list of jobs to complete.

We have new members arriving at the Club each week looking to store their craft. At the committee meeting on Monday 28th Feb 2022 a motion was moved and passed to allow each financial member to store only one boat at levels 1, 2 or 3, (Level 1 being the lowest level). If you have a second or more craft it must be stored at level 4 or above.

There are many craft which do not have name plates attached to them so they will be moved to another area of the Club and then moved on if not claimed before 19June 2022. If you are not aware of the procedure regarding unclaimed craft please refer to By Laws 7 and 8 on the Club website.

The gym is open for you to observe, ask questions and maybe join in a class. Please introduce yourself to Jodie.

Renovations are underway thanks to our awesome crew of Vicki and Andy Plowman, plus more than a little help from the amazing Alex Brunacci! Sooo excited to see the vision coming to life! Can’t wait to share it with you all when we open on Tuesday! Added some before shots of the gym and boat shed plus a few peaks of the awesome amenities we all share as members of the Geelong Paddle Club….Yoga by the river anyone? Love my new extended tribe and love love love the new home away from home we are creating for you!

Our new gym motto…. Community is everything, and we have the most amazing people in our tribe # #