Let's go down a memory lane...
Let's go down a memory lane of Training Day's journey so far.
Our Burwood gym is where we started in 2012.
In the first email we sent you when you first joined we mentioned that there was a reason why our journey started in the suburb of Burwood.
Rewind the clock back to the mid 1990's, Wayne our founder grew up in the suburb of Burwood in Sydney NSW. His childhood was nothing short of rollercoasters, and a significant event happened during his time living in Burwood that later inspired our first location. It was a decade later when life took him to Melbourne, he first picked up a pair of dumbbells. The gym then became his outlet for all the negative feelings that had been built up during his childhood. Eventually his time in the gym helped change his victim mentality into a proactive one. As he watched his body adapt to the challenges he was voluntarily giving it, so did his mind.
Our Burwood gym represents rising up from where we fell. This is where our mission started, to help others do the same.
Our Clayton gym is our second baby, conceived in 2018.
Six years after our mission had started, we had now gathered a team of passionate comrades who also shared and believed in the mission. We wanted to bring TD to more people.
Our Clayton gym represents our first big triumph.
But as the scale of our gyms grew, so did the challenges. We were overwhelmed by the business challenges that came along with the growth, and had to learn and grow quickly ourselves to meet our expectations.
As our team and experience in the industry grew, our reputation grew along with it. TD Clayton quickly became an altar for a community of like minded people.
Our Scoresby Gym was born in 2023.
But the story starts from 2020, less than two years following our Clayton gym opening, just as we were adapting to our new found growth, the global pandemic hit.
As with other similar businesses, we were forced to shut our doors, on and off over the course of two years.
Since opening our doors in 2012, this was no doubt the biggest challenge we've ever faced. A lot of sacrifices were made and tears were shed in order to keep Training Day alive over those two years.
We had to dig deep to remind ourselves why we do what we do.
We took those two years away from the gym floor, to read, learn and develop our management skills, built better structures and processes, when we finally came out of lockdown, we bounced back higher than we were capable of prior.
TD Scoresby represents our rebirth.
Even though our gyms have been birthed from the same passion, drive and vision, each of our gyms represent something different to us, and they each have their own charm!
If you're on our Ultra Membership, you can access all of our clubs, and every clubs' classes. Be sure to do the occasional visit to another TD gym for a switch in scenery. We'd love your feedback.
Thank you for going on a journey with us! Let us know if we can help you with anything.
“I've grown most not from victories, but from setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.” - Serena Williams