Personal Training and expert Mindset Coaching in a super friendly environment where progress is championed!
Beliefs and values
What matters to us
Passion
We believe life is better lived with passion and purpose. We thrive on helping our members feel inspired, motivated and alive.
Growth
Progress can only happen through growth. We create continual opportunity for our members to learn and grow so they can become the ultimate version of themselves.
Freedom
Everyone deserves to be pain-free, energetic and confident. We believe in striving to overcome barriers and limitations to enjoy the freedom of living life on your terms.
“After many years at different gyms and training programs, I was ready to give up exercising altogether and put up with the pain. Now after every training session, I can’t wait til my next one as I walk out that door feeling amazing. I love our sessions and am excited about what I will be like in a few months time…..Watch out world! Thank you from the bottom on my heart”
~ Liz Geehman
our approach
Who We Are
Strong Women Can is a face-to-face and online community that gives you access to everything you need to prioritise your health and fitness, so you look and feel amazing.
The best part is, we don’t just give you the tools you need. We also give you the community and support you need to create an empowering transformation in your body and your mind.
We train women in our boutique studio in Hampton East, and online. Our training programs are designed especially for women, and specialise in helping you build lean muscle, move pain-free, boost your metabolism and regulate your hormones.
To ensure you feel supported outside the studio, we run regular programs in nutrition, mindset, and women’s health. These programs help you to focus on creating real and sustainable change and allow you to join other women with the same goal.
We work with absolute beginners, pre and post-natal women, and women with injuries, all the way up to super fit women who are competent lifters and love a challenge. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had 2 years break from exercise, or have never stepped inside a gym in your life, wherever you are right now is perfect and we can help you discover your true strength.
our philosophy
What We Believe
Strong Women Can stands for possibility. Every woman is incredibly strong in her own right, but not many women know it yet! We believe we could all benefit from a little help in accessing more of our own strength and power. Whether you want more physical strength, emotional strength, or inner confidence, it’s all intertwined.
We started Strong Women Can on the mission to empower busy women who want to look and feel amazing to prioritise their health and happiness. And we believe strength is a vital part in this. Learning to be physically strong and confident in your own body also requires mental and emotional strength. The path to health and happiness is through overcoming your own internal barriers, your own judgements, and your own self-doubt, while also discovering what you are truly capable of.
Learning to embrace your flaws and thrive regardless is true strength.
We are here to help women learn that they are and always will be worthy of health and happiness. Not after they’ve proven themselves, not tomorrow, but TODAY. RIGHT NOW.
Personal Trainer, Mindset Coach and Mentor
Pippa's Story
Pippa is the beating heart of Strong Women Can. She started the company fuelled by a deep desire to help people overcome the barriers that stop them from leading a life of rich experiences, ultimate fulfilment and personal success.
The inspiration behind this burning desire came from her personal experience. After years of pain and injury, constant personal disappointment and all the negative impacts that came as a result of ‘letting go’ of her health for too long, Pippa reached an all-time low and quit her job. Vowing to turn things around and do everything in her power to help prevent anyone from going through what she went through, she then set to work to build Strong Women Can!
Since this self-made promise, Pippa has become obsessed with finding out what gives people ultimate fulfilment and success in life. She is a dedicated student of human behaviour and all things health-related, specialising in fitness and mindset. In fact, she believes that you can’t truly succeed in one without the other.
Pippa has a unique ability to see greatness in everyone. Regardless of where you’re starting out from, she can calibrate quickly, help you feel comfortable, assess carefully for injury or pain, and safely guide you to pain-free, strength and performance-based movements. Pippa sees no boundaries in her clients. She works with a huge range of people from those wanting to walk pain-free again, to those looking to mentally and physically push their boundaries every day.
She doesn’t see fitness as a sign of success. Success is personal and can’t be measured in numbers and stats.
All Pippa cares about is working with people who are committed to change.
The Team
Meet the crew
Pippa Burfield
Pippa is on a mission to help women feel strong, confident and self-motivated. As a Meta Dynamics trained coach and top personal trainer, Pippa combines her expertise in human behaviour, fitness and health to help her clients achieve their fitness goals, connect with what really matters to them, and learn how to become a more authentic and inspired version of themselves.
Alice Walton
As co-founder of Strong Women Can, Alice is passionate about delivering excellence for our members. Coming from a background in customer service and support, Alice’s high standards keep us all on our toes and ensure we are constantly innovating and improving. Alice loves being outdoors and keeping healthy and has a particular passion for cooking nutritious, delicious meals (that the rest of the team love her for!).
Tania Neumann
Tania brings a heap of experience gained over years of coaching and training in the industry. A specialist in strength and conditioning, she has a CrossFit background and is passionate about helping ladies lift and reveal their true strength. Tania has a super friendly, approachable and patient style perfect for those starting out or wanting to level up their results.
Jacqui Toohey
Jacqui has 3 decades experience in the women's health, rehabilitation, sports management and strength training space. A mum of 3 children, she coaches women in all life stages but with a particular passion for those in the 'messy middle' (perimenopause & menopause), empowering them to fuel, feel and function better.
Anna Farrington-Short
With over 15 years as a personal trainer, Anna has made it her mission to help people reach their full potential in mind, body, and spirit. As a nutrition consultant, lifestyle coach, massage therapist, and hypnotherapist, she blends a variety of techniques to create a truly holistic approach to wellness. Anna’s background as a competitive gymnast and coach gives her a deep understanding of movement, strength, and dedication, while her degree in psychology helps her connect the dots between mental and physical health. She is passionate about lifelong learning and loves empowering other women to improve their health, happiness, and well-being.
Vicki Ryan
Vicki is a mum of two [energic!] boys and an avid runner with many marathons and ultras under her belt. She has a passion for women's strength training and has been coaching women to achieve their fitness goals for over 10 years.
Claire Hawkins
Claire chose a career in strength training after initially feeling extremely intimidated by the weights area in the gym and doing hours on the treadmill which led to weakness and a broken humerus! She found herself a female trainer who inspired her to lift and she fell in love with this type of training. She now uses the skills she's learnt in stunt performing on movie sets (!!!) and in inspiring other women to show them what's possible!
Chanthy Lee
10 years of Taekwondo influenced Chanthy's curiosity for human movement and training philosophies. She loves training squats, leggy plyos, balance and core. She has just completed a Degree in Exercise Science. Her PT/coaching career began at a boutique gym and boxing bootcamp, but Chanthy has been coaching Crossfit for the last 3 years. Her heart is in helping others to discover their true capacities, sense of play and most importantly, their absolute love of oneself.
Evelyn Kelly
Evelyn's interest in health and fitness stemmed from witnessing firsthand the importance of nutrition and its role on health and disease. Growing up with a sibling who was terminally ill, her passion and drive to want to help others through improved eating habits and exercise developed from a very young age. Evelyn has completed a Degree in Nutrition and is also certified trainer. "I love to see people living life to the absolute fullest and believe that being in optimal health is the secret key to unlocking this".
Thea Dupay
Thea has been living in Australia for 20Years and is a proud mum to Fergus, her miniature schnauzer. After an 18-year career in Publishing, she decided it was time for a change. Having trained with SWC for over a year, Thea experienced, for the first time, the true meaning of community--feeling a deep sense of belonging and connecting with empowering, like-minded women Now.
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
If you like a personalised approach for faster results, then we could be a good fit. It doesn’t matter how old you are or what your level of fitness or experience is, we have the expertise to work within your limits. To find out more, book in a visit and check out our space.
That’s absolutely fine. Most of our clients are. Which is why we have a structured approach to ensure we safely guide you through an exercise program that is designed especially for your body and your level of fitness.
Yes of course. We do not believe in yelling at you as you “drop and give me 20”. We are also not interested in causing you to limp around for an entire week because you are too sore to walk properly. This type of training slows progress and we know that the more comfortable you are with your training, the more you will turn up to get more results.
Yes. Most people these days have some sort of niggle or injury due to our repetitive and sedentary lifestyles. We are experts at programming exercises that not only avoid the pain, but also work to eliminate the pain whenever possible with corrective movements and strength work.
Then you’re going to love our programs! We use little to no cardio (unless you are training for a specific event). Cardio is not the best use of your time in the gym if you want to maximise your results. We focus on building muscle for a strong, lean and toned body.