Beyond Physical

My approach focuses on what matters most to you—whether that's building physical and mental wellbeing, rehabilitating from an injury, or learning the foundations as a beginner. We'll define a clear pathway and assess your progress along the way to ensure you maintain traction toward your goals, no matter how big or small. Working at a pace that suits you, I provide comprehensive support and guidance designed to help you build autonomy and confidence in your training journey.
As a fully qualified nutritionist, I help clients build proven and sustainable systems for long-term health and wellness. I specialize in body composition changes, sports and performance nutrition, and providing both the knowledge and practical implementation support needed to create lasting habits. My approach focuses on understanding your unique goals and current lifestyle, then developing tailored strategies that steer your health in a positive direction and deliver results you can maintain.

What do I do?

I offer personalised training and nutrition services designed specifically for your goals and preferences. In my private studio, you'll receive tailored programming across strength, reformer pilates, boxing, motor skills, and conditioning, delivered with consistent encouragement and accountability. As a fully qualified nutritionist, I specialize in body composition changes, sports performance, and building sustainable long-term habits. Together, we'll create a comprehensive approach that not only helps you achieve your desired results but ensures you maintain them.

During your complimentary nutrition consultation, we'll explore your goals and current habits to create a clear path forward. We'll discuss your training background, previous diet experiences, typical eating patterns and more. Together, we'll define what success looks like for you and identify the practical support you need to achieve your goals, ensuring we're aligned before beginning our work together.
During your complimentary consultation, we'll discuss your exercise history, goals, and define a pathway to begin, assessing along the way to ensure you keep traction to what you’re wanting to achieve - no matter how big or small. We'll address what matters most to you, whether that's building on your physical and mental wellbeing, rehabilitating from an injury, or learning the basics if you're new to exercise. Together, we'll establish a pace that works for you while ensuring you receive comprehensive support and guidance to build autonomy in your training journey.

About me

I specialise in giving people the guidance and resources to become their best authentic self. I do this through various skillsets such as strength training, reformer pilates, boxing, goal setting, nutrition advice and lifestyle coaching.

A bit about the concept of Beyond Physical:

It's common knowledge that exercise is a powerhouse in maintaining good health physically and mentally, but why is the uptake on such activities so low? Why do we have endemic levels of mental health illnesses and a seeming lack of association between purposeful movement and positive mindsets? And why is escapism so rampant?

I decided to combine my 12+ active years experience as a fitness professional and niche in on using my skills and past experience in shaping who I am today as medicine to help people regain a sense of acceptance and purpose within themselves.

I share metaphorical tools and resources to have my clients disarm old coping mechanisms with prevalent and efficient systems for the present and now that regulate wisdom, knowledge and curiosity. I thrive on helping people regain control of their life through accountability, various thought provoking mindset shifts, responsibility whilst learning about what their bodies are capable of.

Stephanie Leahy

“David is a phenomenal trainer. He works with you on your own individual needs and goals, the sessions feel super personalised every week. He's helped me remain consistent with exercising. Highly recommend David's private sessions and the challenges are awesome too! Fun, professional and welcoming.”
Ashley Nolan

“I began my journey with David 8 years ago while recovering from a caesarean birth. David put me at ease straight away and was so knowledgeable, patient and kind. Since then, I have become more fitter, faster and stronger than ever. David is extremely relatable, supportive and understanding. He has excellent communication skills and always endeavours to get back to me promptly as he also supports me outside of our workouts.”
Anita Bruzzese

I've been training with Dave for many years now and he has been instrumental for keeping me on track with both my fitness and nutrition goals. He's always there to keep me motivated and always passes on his vast array of knowledge in a easy to understand way. I'd highly recommended Beyond Physical to everyone, especially those who sometimes need a little mental push!
Marg Doherty

“I have trained with David Smith for over 8 years and thoroughly recommend him. He understands the body and the beneficial and adverse effects of various exercises and explains the need to do them correctly. He is sensitive to my capacity and goals as an older woman with hip replacements.”
John Petrou

“David is an extremely approachable and knowledgeable personal trainer. I had many back and neck issues and David systematically helped me get rid of them through core strength and mobility exercises. Would highly recommend him to anyone”
Johnathan Morey

Just completed Beyond Physical's 8 Week challenge with David. (My first challenge with David, second challenge I've done). I was able to increase my speed on the beep test, and increased strength and stability in all testing areas. David kept it fun, engaging, and made me want to come back every week! No 2 weeks were the same, even including some Boxing and Games nights. Able to work with people of all abilities, and remind us that we are all on our own journey!
Renee Lee

“Dave has been the most important person in my life for over 10years. He has supported me from a retired sports person to an active
aging body. Dave has instrumentally improved my mind, body and soul by sharing his extensive knowledge, unconditional kindness and personal experiences. I love this guy and I guarantee you and your friends will too.”
Jeenah Franks

“I have been seeing Dave for a few weeks and he’s kindness, knowledge and patience is next to none. It’s so great seeing a coach who explains thoroughly what the correct technique is when going through the excercises to make sure you learn good habits instead of unlearning bad habits. 10/10 would reccomend!”
Shane Hortle

“Excellent fitness training from a real professional! David is very good at understanding a person's goals and has a personal approach. David assisted me with regaining my confidence in physical improvement after a couple of years out of practise. The variety of exercises ensured I learned along the way from David, delivered with warmth and patience. I recommend Beyond Physical for a personal and caring approach to personal fitness!”

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So I sit here battling with the justification of keeping an online social media presence. I feel this needs to be addressed for those who may feel your ship is being steered by external pressure, or maybe it’s to solidify my opinion, haha. Here’s my deal. I’ve been told in the past if I don’t post x amount of times daily then I’ll be left behind in the algorithm juggernaut that is Facebook and Instagram. I have had this constant pressure (self inflicted) of not living up to the expectations of others and almost the parallel threat of my business tumbling if I don’t inundate my audience with posts. Rest assured - I’m still doing the non-Insta appealing things in my life. I train consistently, I meal prep, I stay active. And I get this serves as inspiration for some. But it’s also the vast majority of what is posted, along with controversial comments picking apart fitness styles and nutrition, inflating their ego in the process. I’m not interested in playing that game. Over the last couple of months of focusing on what I think matters, my business has been able to thrive which I’m thankful for, and it’s clicked that social media doesn’t have to determine how I make this happen. I have since learnt to ride my phases and post when I want to, not to fill space for the sake of it. It just so happens I’ll ramp things up, and then disassociate from my social media. It’s a cycle I’ve started to embrace instead of resent, it’s kinda my thing now 😂 To those who post solid advice, and continue to motivate their audience. My hat is off for you. It’s difficult to keep content rolling. I might join you for a while 😅 ✌️

Investing in yourself is fundamental to health. Both physical and mental. We know that. So why can it be so hard? Nothing else matters if you don’t have health. The conundrum people face is if you’re not currently ill, in chronic pain or have some other health condition, then there’s always time to start tomorrow, right? Working out today, isn’t going to yield you an immediate return on investment. It’s for something you cannot necessarily see. The workout you do, in conjunction with the other workouts you will do, help the future you. I have a routine that fluctuates and every few months I switch the gears depending on how I feel, but I’m still showing up. A series of consistency and showing up, regardless of whether it’s a record breaking workout or just to intuitively move your body is so damn important. That statement isn’t “instagram-able”. It’s boring. But it’s true. Find joy in what you do, wrap into investing in the future you, and you’ve found the key to your well-being. So when you’re questioning whether it’s a good idea to get up and get moving in any capacity. You should have your answer. ✌️

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Happy birthday beautiful! When I think back on it, I’m so grateful to of met you, let alone spend the last 7 years creating wonderful memories. Love you to the moon and beyond 🎈❤️

www.beyondphysical.com.au Celebrate the website launch with me! I’m putting up 2x complimentary sessions. Check my booking system out and snap up the limited spots left! I’m determined to bump my training up a notch during the winter months. Share your journey beside me and put those goals that have been on the back burner to the front 🔥

How a personal trainer celebrates the new website launch! About me, what I do, my why and a booking system are all live 🎉🎈 “Hurry up, these are heavy” - David 2023 Link in bio

I had a conversation with someone close to me about having a shit deal of cards dealt to them today. Which prompted a long conversation leading to this post. I hope it might help someone else too. It’s long, but I think worth it, strap in. 1/ You DO have enough time. It’s hard to not call out someone who says they don’t have enough time. No one can tell me hand on heart they’re just “too busy”. I’m harsh when I say it’s a cop out, but it’s just true. That being said, the reason behind a statement like this usually comes from being lost on where to start. Know that some things you benefit from don’t require 26 hour days. 2/ Discipline. This is the hard one. Sometimes you want nothing more than to do the opposite of a session/exercise. But sometimes these are your breakthrough moments. You need to deploy discipline often, against every fibre of your being. I've always been of the opinion that showing up, outweighs WHAT you do. 3/ Realign with your purpose. It's easy for this to become a bit fuzzy when you're not wanting to train or improve aspects of your lifestyle. But positioning yourself next to your goals will often serve as a strong reminder on WHY you need to show up. Progress doesn't come from wishing or even thinking of how to go about it, it comes from action, no matter how small. 4/ Patience. To connect the above together. You need patience. You need to be firm, but accountable to keep yourself on track. Nothing will change if you're not putting effort in, and effort based on your expectation of perfection and unrealistic goals is exhausting. Expect results down the track through lots of little steps broken down into weekly/daily targets. Don't underestimate the power of just showing up and doing the bare minimum, it will always beat doing nothing. 5/ Expectations. Your idea of what passes as progress likely needs to be dialled down. You don’t need to do 6x 1 hour sessions a day, meal prep every meal or whatever for the rest of your life. Most people need to adjust their goal posts and actually celebrate the smaller wins in accordance to where they’re at currently in life. Your capacity might change, but effort never should.

Have you heard strength training is superior to cardio? Strength training is the use of resistance, triggering muscular contraction to build the strength, anaerobic endurance and size of skeletal muscles. Here's why the saying is common. How you package up strength training can be endless. There are different rep/set ranges to reach different or similar total volumes, fatigue management and quality assurance, different time under tension and planes of movement. Ultimately, you want to be able to produce 10-20 sets spread across the week where you are challenging yourself without the expense of quality. How you get there, is ultimately a consistent and evolving game! Below are some benefits of strength training and why it is usually held in at a higher priority then traditional cardiovascular training: Muscle growth Symmetry restoration Stability and coordination Burn more calories during workout (pending on exertion levels) and at rest Optimise the functionality of the muscle fibres Improve mobility/flexibility Mind muscle connection Improves HEALTH span - slightly different to life span, as in the quality of life in your later years. Note: This post isn't to denounce the benefits of cardiovascular activity. There are a lot of benefits to this style of training too. I'll do another post on this later down the track. Also, no real applicable photo, so here’s one of me and Joseph 🤳

What better way to start back then to reintroduce myself and my passion 👋 in a stroke of genius, I think I kinda summed up my stance in the fitness industry. I specialise in giving people the guidance and resources to become their best authentic self. I do this through various skillsets such as strength training, reformer pilates, boxing, goal setting, nutrition advice and lifestyle coaching. A bit about the concept of Beyond Physical: It's common knowledge that exercise is a powerhouse in maintaining good health physically and mentally, but why is the uptake on such activities so low? Why do we have endemic levels of mental health illnesses and a seeming lack of association between purposeful movement and positive mindsets? And why is escapism so rampant? I decided to combine my 10+ active years experience as a fitness professional and niche in on using my skills and past experience in shaping who I am today as medicine to help people regain a sense of acceptance and purpose within themselves. I share metaphorical tools and resources to have my clients disarm old coping mechanisms with prevalent and efficient systems for the present that regulate wisdom, knowledge and curiosity. I thrive on helping people regain control of their life through accountability, various thought provoking mindset shifts, responsibility whilst learning about what their bodies are capable of.

14.04.2023 💍❤️

www.beyondphysical.com.au

Celebrate the website launch with me! I’m putting up 2x complimentary sessions. Check my booking system out and snap up the limited spots left!

I’m determined to bump my training up a notch during the winter m

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What do I do?

About me

Stephanie Leahy

Ashley Nolan

Anita Bruzzese

Marg Doherty

John Petrou

Johnathan Morey

Renee Lee

Jeenah Franks

Shane Hortle