OUR MISSION

At Primal Health Club, we promote down-to-earth, innovative approaches to improving your personal development. Our approach is designed to help you cultivate the ability to adapt to the various settings and situations encountered in everyday life. We work with you to design a training system, which will improve your self confidence and aid in work life balance. At Primal Health Club we will focus on improving your intellectual, physical and emotional health and wellbeing.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

The best project you’ll ever work on is YOU!

At Primal Health Club we are committed to preserving the character of an earlier age. We are dedicated to old fashioned values such as integrity, loyalty, respect and acknowledging the importance of our local community.

We are community focused and locally family owned, we provide many forms of training to meet a variety of needs. Our services range from rehabilitation through to elite performance. Strongman/women, Functional training for life, Specific Senior classes, Powerlifting, Sports specific programming, Weightlifting, PRIMAL HIT, Primal Fitness Training, Group classes or general health and wellbeing.

We have qualified staff with Paralympic Games, World Championships and Commonwealth Games experience. The world’s best in our local community. There is a space for everyone.

Team Primal are able to support a number of programs such as return to work, off site training, team building activities, education as well as some very unique organic programs.

OUR VISION

Training at Primal Health Club you will experience a very different approach which has been created from our unique training backgrounds.

We are more interested in function than mere appearance! We will enable you, through increased self-confidence, to contribute to all facets of your life.

You will be able to take responsibility and know that you have the strength and vitality to face all of life’s challenges.

OUR STAFF

Jasmine – Club Manager

Jasmine has been a part of the Primal team for three years. Starting her journey as a barista in the café to working her way to our club manager.

She has a great passion for health and fitness within the gym and for any outdoor activities. You can always find Jasmine looking for her next adventure or challenge.

Jasmine has a great enthusiasm for introducing and helping everyone make health and fitness a part of their life. Come and see Jasmine to help you get started on your fitness journey today or to support you to achieve your health goals.

Look out for Jasmine sweating it out in the club or keeping the Primal team in line.

Favorite quote. “Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do. Not a punishment for what you ate”

Dea – Personal Trainer

She comes with a crazy 30 years experience in Personal Training and Group Fitness, we could not ask for a better fit. Dea has a great passion for fitness. Being inspired by her love of being fit, running, sports, and dance. It was inevitable that she found a job the involved fun and fitness.

Dea has had an amazing experience in the fitness industry, as a trainer and group fitness trainer she has been able to travel the world and work. Growing her knowledge as well as exploring different cultures. She is very grateful that she has been able to work as a trainer not just in her hometown, but around the world.

Apart from making people sweat, Dea loves spending quality time with her family and friends.

Come and see what the fuss is all about, you will not be disappointed with the passion she has for fitness and her clients. Dea will be running our new HIIT class on Monday and Thursday nights at 6pm.

“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything”

Beth – Instructor

Beth teaches our Monday X55 classes.

Beth bounds through the club with energy and enthusiasm for all things Group Fitness!

Having been a member at Primal she was inspired to become a Radical Instructor and is in the process of adding Power and Factor F to her repertoire, so watch this space!

Beth loves working at Primal because she loves to be surrounded by positive people trying to improve themselves.

Beth’s fitness tip is “Treat fitness like a job, you turn up most days for money so why not turn up to the gym most days for your health?”

Scott Upston

Scott joined his first gym at the age of 15. Enlisted in the Army at age 17 and served for the next 21 years all around our great country and the world. Scott is a returned veteran seeing operational service in Iraq and Sinai.

He retired in 2010 and took up employment with the Australian Paralympic Committee as the Senior Coach Powerlifting and worked across other programs including Wheelchair Rugby , Basketball and Ambulant Rowing. Scott has coached at the highest level Paralympic Games, World Championships and Commonwealth Games. All of Scott’s athletes have tasted success ranging from Paralympic Gold, World Championships or the opportunity to represent their country. (See Testimonials Page)

Scott also has had success as a strength athlete competing internationally and nationally in a number of sports powersports, powerlifting, strongman and bodybuilding. He has experienced the highs and lows achieving a World Championship in Powersports also “Bombing Out” (no result recorded) at Oceania Championships.

As a coach his philosophy is “round peg , square hole” finding solutions and making them fit for everyone he works with. As an athlete his mindset is “if it was easy everyone would be doing it”

Due to a cut in Government funding Scott was made redundant in Aug 2014. He is currently contracted by the Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee working as the Head Coach Powerliftng. He still volunteers his time to work with a number of athletes in the Australian Paralympic Powerlifting program helping them work towards their dreams of Gold Coast 2018 and Tokyo 2020.

His dream has always been to open his own gym – Primal Health Club will be that and more. Community focused, it will offer up the opportunity for all members of the community to be part of the journey supporting everyone in their health and fitness goals whether it’s representing their school, our country or just general wellbeing.

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Check out why people love
Primal Health Club…

Tash Stamatakis recommended

Friendly and accommodating staff, excellent range of gym equipment and machines, clean facilities and good vibe! Highly recommend!!

Aaron Hately recommended

Awesome gym. Walk in greeted by nice staff. Always there to help out in anyway they can. Put on your fav tune and smash out a workout on a great variety of equipment

Mitchell McKenzie recommended

The staff are lovely and the facilities are awesome, couldn’t ask for a better gym

Brayden O'Meara recommended

I recently signed up at Primal Health Club Benalla and couldn’t be happier with my decision! There’s a vast range of cardio machines to use, as well as plenty of well-maintained weighted machines and free weights to use. The staff are super friendly and have made me feel very welcomed upon signing up. I would recommend Primal Health to anyone who may be considering signing up to a gym.

Primal health club, What an awesome gym!!!
Been going to primal gym since they opened and have not looked back. Love where it’s at right now. The staff are going above and beyond to bring the best out in me, a big. Thanks guys.

Karen Earle recommended

Primal health club has a great range of equipment and classes! The trainers are fantastic and very professional. PT’s are well worth the money, Wayne does a fantastic boxing class and Dee’s HIIT class. Very glad I joined.

Mandy Meadows recommended

Primal Health . Scott , Tanya and their amazing staff are a breath of fresh air for Benalla. The gym is amazing. The service is above and beyond. The most important thing for me is the personalized treatment each member receives . Everyone is important. Thank you

Recently stayed for a few days in Benalla and just needed to keep up with our fitness journey, so my husband and I visited Primal three days in a row, each during for their open gym time. The space is large, bright and welcoming and the facilities and equipment are top notch- lots of bikes, treadmills, elypticals, weight machines, ergs (bike, row and ski), free weights (with Oly lifting platforms), kettlebells and so, so much more! Thanks for having us.

Cassidy Mailer recommended

A helpful and friendly environment with personalised gym programs and plenty of quality equipment to keep you busy.

Khalvin Cowcher recommended

Moved over state and was looking at anytime fitness, luckily they were closed and I found primal fully equipped with equipment and services best gym ive been to so far

Next level! So far above any other gym I have ever been to. Locally owned and run, by some pretty amazing and unbelievably knowledgeable people. Could not recommend this place any higher.

Vas Krishnan recommended

I was visiting Benalla for a few days and was pleasantly surprised to find Primal Health Club fully equipped and more than happy to have me in for a session. Would highly recommend to anyone in the area or visiting.

Ali Abdo recommended

Really enjoyed training here. They got some great equipment. Plenty of bars. Plenty of squat areas. Awesome bench press with self unrack mechanism. Staff were great. They got almost everything you need. They even have a kids area and a cafe in house. Will go back next time we are up here.

Best gym in town.Really friendly and supportive staff.