Welcome to Team Esteem
Welcome to our website! We are dedicated to empowering busy professionals embrace a fit, strong, and healthy lifestyle. With more than 20 years of experience in the fitness industry, we pride ourselves on using research-based training methods tailored to help you reach your individual goals. Our approach focuses on strength, conditioning, and mobility designed to enhance your overall well-being. We can help you move better, look better, and feel better. Book in for a free assessment to get started.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
I have joined Esteem Fitness Studio about 12 months ago without ever having been to a gym before. Rex started me off on an all-round strength training program that we now changed into a more weightlifting-focussed one. I am training in a semi-private setup and love that this is a small gym where people of all ages and fitness levels train alongside. Rex also offers a variety of other activities, such as bootcamps, dedicated weight loss programs (‘shredding season’) and he supports gym members who participate in weightlifting tournaments. I have participated in some of these extra activities and found them really fun. I am thoroughly enjoying my gym sessions and I am loving the results I have been achieving. I will be training with Rex for a long time.
Ulli
When I started seeing Rex four years ago I was recovering from a knee injury that wouldn’t go away. Demoralised, I thought I wouldn’t squat or lift heavy again. Rex has helped me regain confidence in my body and what it can do. He’s taught me when it is safe for me to push and when I need to step back. Since training with Rex my technique has improved and I’m stronger than I’ve ever been. My squat has increased from 105 to 120kg, an all time best beyond my wildest dreams and I know there are more PBs on the horizon. Thank you Rex.
Lucia
I started training with Rex during Covid times and thought it was going to be temporary until things normalised. However, each training session made me realise how much I had to learn about fitness and exercise in general. Three years on, I'm still training with Rex and I feel fitter than I've ever been. If you're looking for someone to help you achieve your fitness goals in a realistic and pragmatic way, then I highly recommend Rex because what you see is what you get. You won't regret it!
Warren Jansen
I didn't want much - just to be able to carry the groceries, hang the washing out, walk up a set of stairs unaided. Fast forward 5 years and I can do all that and so much more. My mate John recommended I go and meet with Rex at Esteem Fitness. A single moment that (and I am not exaggerating) changed my life.
Rex does so much more than set a program or just train me. He gives me the time and space to foster my own personal drive, and inspires me to challenge my thinking. He knows his stuff and is very skilled at encouraging his clients to give their best.
Training with Rex, I am always learning and eager to get to the gym. I have gained so much confidence and strength. In case you are wondering, I recently deadlifted 173kg. Not too shabby for someone who used to cry at the thought of holding a couple of kilos or stepping up onto a box without having something to hold onto! I am excited to see where we go next - I will be training with Rex for a long time to come.
Sharyn
Mandy
Rex will listen to your goals, plan how to get you there and encourage you every step along the way. He will pick up on your weaknesses or imbalances and work to correct them to ensure you are performing at your safest and best. It’s a complete learning experience with amazing rewards.
I first started working with Rex Kanis in 2012 when he arrived in Canberra. Over the past 14 years, my engagement has moved to small group fitness training and of late, 1:1 personalized fitness and training sessions. Over this entire period, Rex has been consistently attentive, supportive, professional and progressive. He not only designs tailored training programs to address my current aspirations, events and activities, but he systematically monitors my performance and goals with an aim to repair existing injuries and increase strength, flexibility and capability.
Rex is highly intelligent and brings a level of active engagement in every session. His communication skills are outstanding, as is his industry knowledge and training techniques. While Rex encourages ownership and accountability from all his students, and actively seeks input and feedback, Rex will also provide guidance to his clients if their athletic endeavours are ill-advised or poorly planned.
Rex’s fitness studio is always welcoming, clean and well-equipped, and he takes an active pride to ensure that all sessions run smoothly, on time and are beneficial to his clients. His approach is very client-centric with an extraordinary level of flexibility and collaboration. Like myself, many of the current Esteem Fitness members are long-term clients or have experienced other service providers and have returned to Rex. We not only enjoy our group and individual sessions with Rex but have benefitted greatly over the years due to his expertise and diligence, pushing us to meet aspirational goals at a pace that matches our physical and mental fortitude. Rex is exceptionally well regarded by all – especially those who seriously want to be better!
Karen
I began training with Rex in 2011 after several years of searching for exercise-based solutions to some postural problems.
With the benefit of careful instruction and guidance from Rex I soon changed some long-term bad exercise habits and through twelve months of weekly training sessions, Rex helped me to regain a level of fitness and mobility that I had previously assumed was no longer possible.
While I often described his style of instruction as 'precision pain' I appreciated Rex's dedication to finding the exact exercises needed to strengthen my 'dormant' muscles and to take the strain off others.
Importantly for all his clients, Rex is famous for being skilled in the art of distraction. His dedication to humour, storytelling and other theatrics made his sessions fun and alleviated the discomfort and frustration that can otherwise so easily accompany training.
Louise
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