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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

23/10/2026

Why we lift heavier than you might expect.

Bone adapts to load, and it needs a genuine challenge to do it. Light "toning" weights aren't enough of a signal. That's why Strength & Osteo is built on current best practice for bone loading and muscle hypertrophy (building muscle size and strength): progressive strength training that challenges your bones and the muscles that pull on them.

Muscle and bone work as a team. As your muscles get stronger, they pull harder on the bones they attach to, and that pull is part of what keeps bone strong.

Heavier doesn't mean reckless. An Accredited Exercise Physiologist or physio coaches every working set, and your load only goes up when your technique is ready. Level 1 starts with the fundamentals (hinge, squat, push, pull and carry), so nobody is expected to walk in lifting heavy.

Twice a week is the minimum dose used in the research behind our program, so we recommend two classes a week.

Classes run in Swanbourne, North Fremantle and Cottesloe. Everyone starts with a 1:1 assessment to find the right level. No referral needed.

Book via the link in bio.

20/10/2026

👩‍🔬Three Questions That Could Prevent Your Next Fall

If you’re over 65, ask yourself:

🔹Have you fallen and hurt yourself in the past year?
🔹Have you fallen two or more times in the past year?
🔹Are you afraid you might fall because of balance or walking problems?

If you answered yes to any of these, a new trial of nearly 12,000 older adults says it’s worth acting on.

People who screened positive at their GP were offered a short, tailored home exercise program for balance and leg strength. Across the practices offering it, there were 9% fewer falls and 6% fewer fall-related injuries.

The catch is that only about 1 in 5 people actually received an exercise plan. The program only works when someone builds it with you and you do it.

What this means for you:

🔹A yes to any of the three questions is worth raising with your GP or an Accredited Exercise Physiologist.

🔹Balance and leg strength can be trained at any age.

🔹Ten minutes a day at home is a realistic place to start.

At O2 Active, we test your balance and strength and build a falls-prevention program around your body, your goals and your week.

Book an assessment at o2active.com.au.

Source: Latham NK et al. JAMA Netw Open 2026. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.39240

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20/10/2026

👩‍🔬Three Questions That Could Prevent Your Next Fall

If you're over 65, ask yourself:

🔹Have you fallen and hurt yourself in the past year?
🔹Have you fallen two or more times in the past year?
🔹Are you afraid you might fall because of balance or walking problems?

If you answered yes to any of these, a new trial of nearly 12,000 older adults says it's worth acting on.

People who screened positive at their GP were offered a short, tailored home exercise program for balance and leg strength. Across the practices offering it, there were 9% fewer falls and 6% fewer fall-related injuries.

The catch is that only about 1 in 5 people actually received an exercise plan. The program only works when someone builds it with you and you do it.

What this means for you:

🔹A yes to any of the three questions is worth raising with your GP or an Accredited Exercise Physiologist.

🔹Balance and leg strength can be trained at any age.

🔹Ten minutes a day at home is a realistic place to start.

At O2 Active, we test your balance and strength and build a falls-prevention program around your body, your goals and your week.

Book an assessment at o2active.com.au.

Source: Latham NK et al. JAMA Netw Open 2026. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.39240

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

18/10/2026

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.
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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.

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.

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1/124 Stirling Highway
North Fremantle, WA
6159

Telephone

+61411642152

Website

https://o2active.com.au/

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