Steps to Greatness · Katoomba
You have been to places that were not built for you.
Training for women who have been told to push through, keep up, or start again. Fourteen days, built around your body, at your pace.
Fourteen days of training with Lachlan, at no cost to you.
It was never your discipline.
You have probably been told, in one way or another, that you did not stick at it. That if you had wanted it enough you would still be going.
That is not what happened.
You were in places built for volume, not built for you. A program written for somebody else will fail almost anyone, and it failed you.
Lisa came to me after the cheap gym, the bootcamp and the six week challenge. Thousands of dollars across a few years. What she had to show for it was a fractured shin from work that was never meant for her body. She trains here now, stronger than she has ever been.
The failure was never hers. She was in the wrong place.
Nobody has looked at you properly.
You have been handed a program by someone who never watched you move.
Sol had lower back pain for years, and saw a chiropractor once or twice a week just to keep going. During her first assessment I noticed one of her legs looked longer than the other, so I sent her to a podiatrist. The podiatrist was sceptical, tested her anyway, and measured a difference of an inch and a half.
A lift in her shoe. The back pain went. She went from two visits a week to one every couple of months.
Nothing there was fixed by trying harder. It was fixed by somebody looking first.
Why it feels different here
Not everyone gets to stay.
Women feel safe here, and that is not luck. It is protected.
People who take away from it have been asked to leave, and they always will be. I have turned away business over it and I would do it again.
You are not the one being tested. That standard is there for you.
When I first walked in, I thought I was destined to be someone who'd be frail and weak. Now this is beyond my wildest dreams.
There is nothing you can tell me that I have not heard.
I have lost count of the women who have walked through that door, sat where you will sit, and said something out loud for the first time.
There is nothing I have not heard before. There is nothing I have not worked with before. This is what I do, day in and day out, and I have been doing it for thirteen years.
You will not have to explain yourself to me.
You do not have to be ready.
When Gabi started she could not walk down a flight of stairs. Fifteen minutes was her limit, and she did not think she belonged here.
She told me once, quietly, that what she really wanted was to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Then she waved it away.
That's silly. I could never.
I asked her whether it actually mattered to her. She said it would mean the world. Twelve months later she stood on top of the Harbour Bridge.
She did not get fit and then come. She came first, and the rest followed, slowly, the way it really does.
Reviews on Google
You do not have to take my word for any of this.
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I never ever thought I would join a gym. It took a lot for me to overcome my fears (too unfit, too unco-ordinated, too old etc etc). But here I am, five years later, thrilled with my decision to join STG.
Right from the start I felt that Lachlan was genuinely interested in helping me to be the best I could be. I found that my initial fears were completely unfounded.
Sometimes I've been amazed at what I've been able to do!
★★★★★ Natalie Evans
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For someone who never set foot in a gym for 64 years walking through the door was daunting. I'm so glad I made that first step because Lachlan is a great trainer, so supportive and makes me feel I can do this! And the camaraderie of the other members is fabulous.
★★★★★ Jenny O'Baugh
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The tailor made training, the non judgemental environment, the people and the laughs are the best!!!
I am sad when I miss a session. Attending is often the highlight of my day.
★★★★★ Angela Balog
14 Days to Greatness
What actually happens.
- Your first session is an assessment, not a sales meeting. We go through what you are dealing with, how your body moves now, and what you want back.
- Then I write a program for your body. Not a general one.
- Three sessions a week is my recommendation. You are welcome as often as you like. Just tell me, so I can manage what your body is carrying.
- You are part of the community from the first day.
- You start exactly where you are. Nobody here is ahead of you.
By the end of the fortnight you should feel a difference in the way your body moves and how it feels, and see clearly what changes next.
Fourteen days of training with Lachlan, at no cost to you.
I didn't know what to expect when I came across Steps to Greatness, however I took the leap of faith. It's not just a gym. It's a family.
Two things people ask me.
It is not the cheapest way to train in the Blue Mountains. It was never going to be.
The cheapest gym is the most expensive one you quit, because the price is never only the membership. It costs you in months and years of your life. It costs you the effort you put in for nothing. It costs you a little more of your confidence every time it does not work. And it costs you everything you do not do while you wait to feel like yourself again.
You have already paid that, over and over again.
Start in the right place, one built for you, and you get exactly what you deserve. Exactly what you needed. While having a great time doing it.
And there is less time in it than you think. Christie works eight to ten hour days, sometimes longer. Her session is the one hour that is hers, so it does not move. In the weeks before she turned fifty she hit personal records on every lift.
Lynda came to me at sixty two with a bone density warning from her doctor. She now deadlifts ninety kilograms, more than her own body weight. Her doctor looked at the follow up scan and called it remarkable.
Come and see.
Fourteen days, and at the end of them you will know whether this is your place. That is the whole of it.
Fourteen days of training with Lachlan, at no cost to you.