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O2 Active Exercise and lifestyle therapies for the prevention and management or injury, disability and disease. At O2 Active we don't believe in dull work outs.

All classes and private sessions are lead by qualified instructors who will motivate and inspire you through the session. Our fitness classes are varied and designed to push you to your comfortable limit, keep you safe and entertained. Variation is the key to results, no work out is ever the same. Energise, revitalise and create the lifestyle you desire… the body will naturally follow! Regardless of your age, fitness level or ability we would love you to join us on our mission to create a fit, happy and supportive local community! A range of classes run each week at a variety of locations throughout Perth. Check out our website for the full timetable www.o2active.com.au

Bone is living tissue, and it responds to load.Strength & Osteo is our strength training class, based on current best pr...
18/10/2026

Bone is living tissue, and it responds to load.

Strength & Osteo is our strength training class, based on current best practice for bone loading and muscle hypertrophy (building muscle size and strength). Every class is run by an Accredited Exercise Physiologist or physio who knows your history, coaches every working set and progresses your load only when your technique is ready.

The program follows the principles of LIFTMOR, the Australian trial that tested supervised high-intensity resistance and impact training in postmenopausal women with low bone mass (Watson et al., 2018).

Three levels, one pathway:
🔹Level 1 builds your foundations.
🔹Level 2 introduces the barbell lifts.
🔹Level 3 is high-intensity bone loading.

Classes run in Swanbourne, North Fremantle and Cottesloe.

Everyone starts with a 1:1 assessment, where your exercise physiologist or physio works out the right level for you. No referral needed.

Book via the link in bio.

Swanbourne NorthFremantle Cottesloe

Bone is living tissue, and it responds to load.Strength & Osteo is our strength training class, based on current best pr...
18/10/2026

Bone is living tissue, and it responds to load.

Strength & Osteo is our strength training class, based on current best practice for bone loading and muscle hypertrophy (building muscle size and strength). Every class is run by an Accredited Exercise Physiologist or physio who knows your history, coaches every working set and progresses your load only when your technique is ready.

The program follows the principles of LIFTMOR, the Australian trial that tested supervised high-intensity resistance and impact training in postmenopausal women with low bone mass (Watson et al., 2018).

Three levels, one pathway:
🔹Level 1 builds your foundations.
🔹Level 2 introduces the barbell lifts.
🔹Level 3 is high-intensity bone loading.

Classes run in Swanbourne, North Fremantle and Cottesloe.

Everyone starts with a 1:1 assessment, where your exercise physiologist or physio works out the right level for you. No referral needed.

Book via the link in bio.

18/09/2026

That mask is measuring every breath he takes.

VO₂ is the most oxygen your body can actually use when you’re working as hard as you can. It’s the ceiling on your aerobic capacity — and unlike almost every fitness number you’ve been given, it isn’t estimated. It’s measured.
There are two versions of this test, and we’ll tell you which one you’re doing.

If you already train at genuinely maximal intensity — Zone 5, the point where the pace is unholdable and talking is out of the question — we run a VO₂ max test. A true max needs you to reach the point where your oxygen use flattens out even as the effort keeps climbing, and that takes a body that’s been there before.

If you haven’t been training at that intensity, we run a VO₂ peak test instead. Same mask, same data, taken to the highest point you can safely reach. It’s the right test for most people and it gives us everything we need to build your zones. We just call it what it is.

The test itself is simple and horrible in equal parts. You start easy, the treadmill steps up every few minutes, and it ends when you’re done.

You walk away with your number, where it sits for your age and s*x, and training zones built from your own physiology instead of a formula your watch guessed.

The American Heart Association has recommended since 2016 that cardiorespiratory fitness be treated as a clinical vital sign — measured and recorded, like blood pressure. Most people have never had it measured once.

Exercise, clinically dosed.
08 6186 7965 · North Fremantle

15/09/2026

Rule #1: do what makes you happy.

Nobody comes to work at our clinic for the paperwork. We do it for the small returns — someone reaching overhead without bracing for it first. Someone rolling over in bed without planning the route.

It’s not dramatic. It’s just a good thing to get to do on a Tuesday morning.

13/09/2026

Your GP hears from us in the same week.
Not a form. A letter that says what we tested, what we found, what the plan is and when we will check it again.

It sounds like admin. It is actually the thing that stops you being the person who has to remember, repeat and carry your own history between every practitioner you see.

Small detail. It changes how the rest of your care goes.

10/09/2026

Why did we ask to see you walk, when it is your back that hurts?

Because the pelvis sits in the middle of a chain, and it takes whatever the ground gives it. Every step, the force from your foot travels up through the ankle, the knee and the hip before it reaches the pelvis and the spine.

If something further down is not doing its share — a stiff big toe, an ankle that has never fully recovered from a rolled ligament in your twenties, a hip that has quietly lost range — the pelvis ends up absorbing what the leg did not.
Which is why treating only the sore spot can work brilliantly for a fortnight, and then stop working.

It is also why we work closely with podiatry when the picture points that way.

Caitlin spent Saturday with Professor Rob Newton — one of the leading voices in exercise oncology, and the reason a lot ...
07/09/2026

Caitlin spent Saturday with Professor Rob Newton — one of the leading voices in exercise oncology, and the reason a lot of Australian cancer care now treats exercise as part of the treatment plan rather than something to get to later. 🧡

One idea we keep coming back to: if you have a headache, you don’t take the whole bottle of medicine. You take the right dose, at the right time. Exercise is the same.

For someone in treatment, that usually means:
✔️ Shorter sessions, more often.
✔️ A plan that changes with your cycle, not one that ignores it.
✔️ Strength work kept in, not dropped, because muscle is what carries you through.

You don’t have to feel well to start. You have to start where you actually are — and that’s what our EPs are trained to work out.

Swipe through to see how we approach it. 👉
Referrals welcome from GPs, oncologists and surgeons — or book an initial assessment yourself at o2active.com.au/bookonline.

GLP-1 medications are a bullet train to a result. Fast. Effective for a lot of people. That's not the question.The quest...
11/08/2026

GLP-1 medications are a bullet train to a result. Fast. Effective for a lot of people. That's not the question.

The question is what's being built alongside them — because that's what determines whether the result holds when the dose steps down or stops.

A recent trial for one medication in this class gave us a look. In the placebo group, patients held less than half of their loss within a year, and more than 60% needed to go back on something.*

That's one drug, and different medications in the class may look different. But it's enough to name the gap: if the adjunct lifestyle work isn't happening during the medication phase, stopping isn't a plateau. It's a rebound.

Our role as exercise physiologists isn't to prescribe or discourage — that's a doctor's call. Our role is to make sure the muscle, bone and habits are being built underneath, so when the medication stops (or the dose steps down) the result actually holds.

That means we track more than the scales. Grip strength. Leg strength. Blood pressure. Body composition. Because the scales will plateau — they always do — and if that's the only metric, a plateau reads as failure and people quit.

Weight loss becomes weight management. The goal isn't the number you hit. It's the number you hold.

Exercise, clinically dosed.

*Figures from one recent maintenance trial for one medication in this class — verify before publication.

Three studios. One clinical approach.O2 Active isn’t a gym with a rebrand — every class is built by exercise physiologis...
06/08/2026

Three studios. One clinical approach.

O2 Active isn’t a gym with a rebrand — every class is built by exercise physiologists and physiotherapists, dosed for the body doing it. That’s what makes it work.

📍 EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY · North Fremantle
Clinical strength, bone loading and rehabilitation. Home of Strength & Osteo, Strong Women, Men’s Mobility Strength and EP Small Group (1:4).

📍 ERIC ST. PHYSIO · Cottesloe
Semi-Private Rehab across the week — physio-led group rehabilitation for post-surgical, complex musculoskeletal, and osteoarthritis presentations. Strength & Osteo Friday. Osteoarthritis Exercise Rehab Saturday.

📍 MOVEMENT STUDIO · Swanbourne
Yoga. Pilates. Strength. Vinyasa, Mat Pilates (Foundations & Strong), Studio Reformer and Strength & Osteo — taught with the same clinical eye.

Swipe through for each timetable.

New to O2 Active? $88 for 2 weeks unlimited classes and open gym at Exercise Physiology (North Fremantle) and Movement Studio (Swanbourne).

Exercise, clinically dosed.

🔗 Book online · o2active.com.au

Physiotherapy Yoga Pilates StrengthTraining Perth NorthFremantle Cottesloe Swanbourne

15/07/2026

Exercise, clinically dosed. A snapshot of last week in the clinics and studio.
Every rep, every set, every session — prescribed with intent. Load, dose, progression, recovery. Nothing generic. Nothing left to chance.
This is what exercise looks like when it’s clinically dosed.

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