Working with Celeste and Lift is an investment in my future wellbeing and healthy ageing that I will never regret.
Catherine Reilly
Lift for Life
Being strong, staying mobile and building a healthy cadence around your own fitness is how you live a longer, stronger, better life. That belief is why we're here.
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What Lift for Life means
Our belief
Strong, Mobile, Consistent
The three things that carry you through a long life
Cadence beats intensity
Being strong, staying mobile and building a healthy cadence around your own fitness is, we believe, what gives you a longer, stronger, better life. Not a six-week transformation — a rhythm you can hold for decades. Most people don't need to train harder. They need to train in a way they can keep doing, with enough challenge in it to keep making them more capable.
How we work
You Don't Figure It Out Alone
Guidance, support, accountability and positivity
The part most gyms leave out
Knowing what to do is only half of it. Along the way we give you guidance so you're not guessing, support when life gets in the way, accountability so the plan actually happens, and positivity because progress comes easier when someone is genuinely in your corner. You bring the effort. We'll bring the map and the encouragement.
Who's welcome
All Ages, All Abilities
Knowledge and confidence in your own body
Everyone starts somewhere
We welcome all ages and all abilities through the door, and we'd rather you leave with more than a stronger body. We want you to leave with knowledge and confidence about how your body works, what it needs and how to move it well. That understanding is what keeps people training long after the first goal has been ticked off.
If you arrive with an injury
From Rehab To Real Training
Learn to train safely, then build from there
A path forward, not a holding pattern
If you wander into our world carrying an injury or managing a condition, our accredited exercise physiologists help you learn how to train safely, working alongside your medical team where that helps. The aim isn't to keep you in rehab. It's to build enough strength and confidence to move you into a more traditional training program with a personal trainer.
Real life
Life Will Test You
Motivation, energy, hormones, stress and time
We plan for the messy weeks
Life will certainly test your motivation, your energy levels, your hormones, your stress and the time you have to chase everything you want. We don't pretend otherwise. Programs are built to flex around busy seasons and hard weeks, so a rough month becomes a dip in the line rather than the end of it.
Why this matters
It Radiates Outward
A small amount of time for yourself changes more than you
You become the example
We believe exercise, and taking a small amount of time for yourself, has lasting effects that radiate well beyond you — better energy, a steadier mood, more patience and capacity for the people around you. Over time you become an example of what healthy habits can do, and that's often what gets a partner, a parent or a friend started too.
We hope to see you in the studio soon.
Lift for Life isn't a program you sign up for. It's how we think about training and how we work with people every day — whether you're with us for six weeks or six years.
We're believers in mindset, movement and motivation. Real change comes from showing up consistently in a space where people know your name and know what you're working towards.
Dedicated fitness pathways built around you
Whether you're chasing a fitness goal or managing a health condition, we have a dedicated pathway built around you.
Personal Training
Private, personalised training to boost your strength, flexibility, and heart health, designed to fit around your busy schedule. No lock-in contracts.
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Exercise Physiology
Science-backed programs for chronic conditions, injury recovery, and pain management, designed by our ESSA-accredited exercise physiologists who learn and understand your history.
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Your team of expert PTs and EPs ready to help you lift for life.
Tim Bailey-Coles
Exercise Physiologist
BExSc(Hons), MClinExPhys, AEP, AES
Cathy Lloyd-Prowse
Personal Trainer
Older Adults Specialist
Kris Mount
Managing Director, Head Trainer
BExSc(Hons), MClinExPhys, AEP, AES
Celeste D'Amico
Exercise Physiologist
B.HlthSc(SpExSc), M.ClinExPhys, AEP, AES
Nigel Apostel
Personal Trainer
Strength & Conditioning
Laura Diaz
Personal Trainer
Exercise Science
Daniel Walsh
Personal Trainer
Strength & Conditioning
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your studio
Your premium training space in Marrickville
12/76B Edinburgh Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204
View MapNo queues for equipment. No distractions. Just you, your EP, and the tools you need to get back to your best. Our Marrickville studio is purpose-built for focused, one-on-one exercise sessions.
Happy Lifters
Sometimes people say things about our service, studio and smiley faces. We're super proud to show them off.
Tim is a delight, is very clever and knowledgeable, is genuinely interested in my progress
Jaculin Kearney
I couldn't be happier with my choice to join Lift. … I'm still thrilled with the results. 10/10.
Greg C
If you want results and a few laughs along the way, Tim’s your guy.
Kimberlie van Oudheusden
If you are looking for a trainer who is at the highest level, look no further than Kris & the Lift Inner West team.
Jason Urbanowicz
Have been training with Kris over the past year, he is absolutely fantastic!
Alex
Kris is great … after the 8 weeks, I went from 20% body fat to 16.8%.
Flo F
Jeremy O'Connor