Comparing industry prices honestly.
There are at least eight ways to buy training in Brisbane.
This page sets them side by side: what each costs, what the money actually buys, and when each is the right choice.
Some may suit you better than this practice does.
Advertised Australian ranges, checked August 2026, from industry sources.
The single-coach row carries this practice's own published prices.
| Format | Cost | Best when |
|---|---|---|
| Gym membership | $10 to $30 per week | If you are on a tight budget, if you work night shifts and train late, or if you prefer large classes like pilates, yoga, cycle. |
| Gym membership with occasional PT | Membership plus $70 to $120 a session | For someone on a budget, who wants an occasional technique check or a fresh program to run on their own. |
| Group HIIT and bootcamp franchises | $35 to $60 per week | If you're on a budget, want to train with several friends at once, or if you just want to network more than you want results. |
| Small-group training | $40 to $80 a session | A reasonable middle if you want a little coaching attention at less than the one-to-one rate and you are happy to share it among a small group. |
| Chain PT studios | $70 to $120 a session | If location and open scheduling matter most, and it doesn't matter which trainer takes the session. |
| Mobile or at-home PT | $90 to $160 a session | Getting to a gym is what actually stops you training, or when you'd never set foot in one. |
| Online-only coaching | $100 to $300 a month | For people who travel constantly, or anyone with no coach near them worth using. If either of these fit you, we offer online coaching exactly for your situation. See online coaching → |
| Single-coach private practice This practice | $97 to $500 per week by frequency | When the result and getting it fast matters more than anything else, and when you would rather have the answers directly instead of slowly figuring it out over decades. |
Gym membership
$10 to $30 per week
Access to equipment and a group class timetable. Prices vary between budget chains and premium clubs. Most charge joining fees and offer discounts for signing a term-based contract.
Best when. If you are on a tight budget, if you work night shifts and train late, or if you prefer large classes like pilates, yoga, cycle.
Negatives. No one notices if you stop showing up. Nobody is watching your form, preventing injuries, or explaining the various machines.
Gym membership with occasional PT
Membership plus $70 to $120 a session
The same access, with sessions bought from a new trainer still working the floor. Usually sold in packs.
Best when. For someone on a budget, who wants an occasional technique check or a fresh program to run on their own.
Negatives. Occasional sessions don't carry a plan forward. Progress isn't tracked or reviewed. So each block of sessions starts from scratch.
Group HIIT and bootcamp franchises
$35 to $60 per week
The F45 and BFT model. A timetabled class, the same session for everyone in the room, a coach running the floor rather than working with you.
Best when. If you're on a budget, want to train with several friends at once, or if you just want to network more than you want results.
Negatives. The session is written before anyone walks in, so it cannot answer your history, injuries, or your goal. Technique is corrected only when a trainer happens to be beside you.
Small-group training
$40 to $80 a session
2 to 10 people sharing a trainer, all following the same workout with one trainer supervising.
Best when. A reasonable middle if you want a little coaching attention at less than the one-to-one rate and you are happy to share it among a small group.
Negatives. You're buying a fraction of a coach, and sharing a workout designed for everyone. The attention divides by the number of people in the room, and the session runs at the pace of the group.
Chain PT studios
$70 to $120 a session
One-to-one sessions from a roster of employed trainers. Sold in packs or on a membership.
Best when. If location and open scheduling matter most, and it doesn't matter which trainer takes the session.
Negatives. The model prices for session time, so everything else (measurements, diet, reviews) is either absent or costs extra. Trainers are usually newer, and often rotate and turn over, so the person who learned your history in March may not be there in July.
Mobile or at-home PT
$90 to $160 a session
A trainer who comes to you, with whatever equipment fits in a car.
Best when. Getting to a gym is what actually stops you training, or when you'd never set foot in one.
Negatives. The cost premium buys their travel time, not experience or knowledge level. Strength progress is also limited to what fits in the car.
Online-only coaching
$100 to $300 a month
A written program, food guidance, and check-ins through an app.
Best when. For people who travel constantly, or anyone with no coach near them worth using. If either of these fit you, we offer online coaching exactly for your situation. See online coaching →
Negatives. Other online coaches hand out copy-paste programs and diets. Finding a highly competent online coach is a needle in a haystack.
Single-coach private practice
$97 to $500 per week by frequency
Every session with the same coach, getting the whole practice: assessment, programming, nutrition, supplementation, posture and technique correction, and measurements. Every client receives every inclusion. Price varies by how often you train, not by what you get.
Best when. When the result and getting it fast matters more than anything else, and when you would rather have the answers directly instead of slowly figuring it out over decades.
Negatives. One coach means finite hours, and this practice runs weekday daytime only. Late nights, weekends and several locations are all outside what it can do.
The case against this practice.
There are several things a large gym or a chain studio does that a single-coach practice cannot. They open at 5am and close at 10pm, or they're 24/7. When your trainer is away or unwell, another one is on the floor. Statewide locations mean a change of office doesn't disrupt training. These also cost a great deal less.
I train people who are serious about getting what they want. I reward aspiration and effort with results.
If this isn't you, or if any of the above sounds better, take them.
Most people here have tried something else first.
Some have trained themselves for over a decade and finally admitted they're not experts. They had put in the years but had very little to show for it.
Others are new and want the result quickly, or are new and find the gym intimidating or bewildering. There are dozens of machines, thousands of exercises, hundreds of protocols, thousands of supplements, and any number of ways to injure yourself or lose a year working it out.
The intimidation Q is answered in the FAQ.
A few have a date in front of them. A wedding, marathon, a 40th or 50th, and they want to look or perform their best on it.
Injuries picked up in a class bring people here too. I also get those already with a trainer but wanting more knowledge depth than they were getting.
What was missing from them was rarely effort. It was usually years with nothing measurable to show, no way to tell what worked, hordes of conflicting information out there, or the discovery that an AI assistant is a poor coach.
Who this practice is built for.
People who take their health, performance, and how they look seriously (and are usually short of time).
The clients who do best here look past the general population to what is new and not widely known. They try new methods, biohacking and protocols most people have never heard of, in order to reach a result faster. What I teach them is the evidence-backed version of each: routine blood work interpreted to refine the plan, nootropics where they earn their place, and the current exercise and nutritional science applied to them specifically.
They want a coach who's at the edge of the research rather than one repeating a course he sat years ago. Isaac is self-admittedly obsessed with self-improvement and with finding methods that return more than they cost. His clients are either the same, or they can see the value in having somebody that obsessive working for them.
Who this practice is not for.
If a very tight budget is the deciding factor, one of the other formats may serve you better. Several start at a tenth of the cost, which is why they're on this page.
Anyone who wants to work up a good sweat and otherwise be left alone will get that from a group class.
There is little point paying for a coach if being accountable holds no interest, because the measurements, reviews, and accountability are what decide and drive results.
Training alongside other people is not on offer here and will not be.
The hours are weekdays, 6am to 7pm, which also rules the practice out for anyone who can only train late at night or at the weekend.
Common questions
Is a personal trainer worth it compared with a gym membership?
It depends on what's stopping you. A gym membership in Brisbane costs $10 to $30 per week and buys access to equipment, but nobody writes anything for you, nobody guides you, and nobody notices if you stop showing up. One-to-one coaching costs more but it buys knowledge and experience: what to do, in what order, corrected as you do it, and changed when the measurements say so. Someone may find the membership enough. But when a year of effort produces poor results, gym access wasn't what was missing.
How much does one-to-one personal training cost in Brisbane compared with group training?
Advertised rates as at August 2026: group HIIT and bootcamp franchises run $35 to $60 per week, small-group and semi-private sessions $40 to $80 each, and one-to-one personal training $70 to $120 a session. Furlani Fitness prices by frequency rather than by session, from $97 per week for one 30-minute session to $500 per week for five 45-minute sessions, with every client receiving every inclusion.
Is group training as effective as one-to-one personal training?
For a general fitness effect, group training may work and it is cheaper. Its limit is structural, and no amount of effort changes that. The session is written before anyone arrives, so it's not tailored to you or your history, injuries, or specific goal. Technique is corrected only when a trainer happens to be beside you. Group training is the better buy if you're on a tight budget, if you want to train with several friends at once, or if you just want to network more than you want results.
What is the difference between a chain personal-training studio and a private practice?
Mostly in what you are buying. A chain studio sells session time from a roster of employed trainers. The measurement, nutrition and review between sessions are absent or cost extra, and the trainer who learned your history may move on. A single-coach practice sells the whole engagement to one person. That buys continuity and a plan that accumulates, at the cost of finite hours and a single location.
More of the practice
- Personal training How the one-to-one coaching works.
- Online coaching The full practice, wherever you train.
- Pricing Memberships and session costs.
- Questions Straight answers on format, policies and cost.
Not sure which of these you need?
The first consultation is complimentary, 30 mins, and it settles the right format before any commitment. If that format is not this one, you will be told so.