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Queensland-based fitness group TotalFusion has opened its latest health and wellness club in the Brisbane of Morningside - ending a chapter in a long running planning dispute.

Opened on 1st February, TotalFusion Morningside offers six purpose-built group fitness studios, an open gym floor, yoga, functional training, cycle, Reformer Pilates, a Run Club, wellness services, infrared saunas, hot and cold plunge pools and float tanks.

Described as “Queensland’s biggest gym facility”, the 5577 metre² gym premises was completed and ready to open at the end of 2020. However, a lengthy planning dispute between site owner BMI Group and neighbouring business Australian Country Choice was only resolved in December last year.

How, the TotalFusion Facebook page advises “step inside an inclusive space that welcomes all ages and fitness levels, so regardless of what your starting point looks like, you can gain confidence in training here. Our full service health and wellness club offers everything you need to move more and feel better.”

Behind the TotalFusion concept, Leon McNiece, who, with his wife Michelle McNiece founded the Goodlife Health Club chain, has developed a space that brings a range of studio modalities together under one roof.

Having discovered ‘fusion’ classes - combining yoga, Pilates, functional fitness and high intensity interval training (HIIT) - in the USA, the pair saw the advantages of combining fitness needs in the one class - strength, mobility, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness.

With TotalFusion this had been expanded with mindfulness, nutrition and community, appealing to a wide demographic.

Introducing the TotalFusion concept in a 2019 interview, McNiece explained “we really felt that putting all those studios under one roof at an affordable price (is) where the market was going (offering) the best combination of membership facilities that you can provide for people.”

Leon McNeice was inducted into the Fitness Industry Roll of Honour, presented by the then Fitness Australia, in 2019.

Image: TotalFusion.

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