VIC Active

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A Statement from VIC Active founder, .coach.

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🚨 WE’RE BACK 🚨

VIC Active is delighted to announce that from 6PM on Friday, 29 October, fitness centres will be open fully to vaccinated individuals, and will be subject to a 1 person per 4sqm limit.

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WHY AREN’T FITNESS CENTRES OPENING AT THE SAME TIME AS HOSPITALITY?

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Glad to see the Victorian Opposition has heard our message.



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🚨ARE ANDREWS, SUTTON AND WEIMAR FIT TO LEAD VICTORIA?

🚨VIC ACTIVE NEEDS YOU TO THINK ABOUT THIS VITAL QUESTIONS…….

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🚨RE-OPENING FROM LOCKDOWN 6.

🚨WHY CAN’T FITNESS CENTRES RE-OPEN ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE?

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Victoria is currently in the midst of a physical and mental health catastrophe.

The link is clear. Physical activity is a key, critical way to manage health & wellbeing.

Studies have shown that enforced sedentary behaviour can lead to depressive feelings and low moods in healthy people within seven days.

Make sure you not only look after those around you but also yourself.

We need to get Victorians active again and connected to their friends and communities as soon as it is possible.

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ATTENTION REGIONAL VICTORIA:

Following the State Government’s update, VIC Active and Fitness Australia can confirm that:

➡️COVID check-in Marshals are not required in unstaffed exercise facilities in Regional Victoria.

This is a major win for our industry, it highlights the government's trust and confidence in our facilities, members & staff.

Please ensure you have extra signage in place, encouraging members to use the VIC QR check-in when entering & exiting your facility.

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🚨LOCKDOWN 6

🚨RECORD MENTAL HEALTH CALLS TO LIFELINE

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ATTENTION VICTORIANS:

Following the State Government’s announcement VIC Active and Fitness Australia can confirm that a small change has been made to Victoria’s restrictions.
From 11.59PM tonight the following restrictions will apply:

➡️Group limits will be removed from physical recreation and sport (including gym classes).

➡️Limits of 100 people per indoor space and 300 per outdoor space will continue to apply to physical recreation facilities, as will density requirements of 1 person per 4sqm.

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🚨VIC ACTIVE CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL

🚨VICTORIAN FITNESS CENTRES TO REOPEN

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ATTENTION VICTORIANS:

Following the State Government’s announcement, VIC Active and Fitness Australia can confirm that from 11.59pm tonight the following COVID-Safe setting will apply statewide:

➡️Exercise facilities can reopen with a density quotient of 1 person per 4sqm.
➡️Maximum patron cap of 100 people per space indoors and 300 per space outdoors.
➡️COVID Check-in Marshals must ensure attendees check-in in exercise facilities.
➡️Group limit of 10 people.
➡️Masks will continue to be required everywhere indoors and outdoors.

VIC Active statement to follow.

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ATTENTION VICTORIANS:

Following the State Government’s announcement, VIC Active can confirm that from 11.59pm tonight the following COVID-Safe settings will apply statewide:

Physical recreation & sport:
➡️ Open, subject to a density quotient of 1 person per 2 sqm when using a COVID Check-in Marshal, otherwise density quotient of 1 person per 4sqm applies
➡️ Maximum capacity 300 people per indoor space and 1,000 people outdoors
➡️ Maximum group size 50 people

Community sport:
➡️ Open for all ages, training and competition
➡️ Density quotient of 1 person per 2 sqm applies when using a COVID Check-in Marshal, otherwise density quotient of 1 person per 4sqm applies
➡️ Maximum capacity 300 people per indoor space and 1,000 people outdoors
➡️ Spectators allowed within venue and space limits
➡️ A COVID Check-in Marshal is an employee who is responsible for ensuring that each person who enters a venue uses the Service Victoria QR code to check in on arrival (or an alternative record keeping method, where relevant)

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We’re advocating for the rights of fitness centre operators, their employees and members.

Publicly and behind the scenes we’re fighting for our industry.

In the meantime,

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VIC Active and would like to thank the nearly 11,000 Victorians who signed our petition calling on the Andrews Labor Government to take an evidence based approach and avoid drastic and unsustainable shutdowns of our state's gyms, fitness centres, and yoga and pilates studios.

A big thank you to for sponsoring and tabling our petition in Parliament today.

But the fight is not over. VIC Active will continue work tirelessly to remind the Andrews Government and the CHO that the fitness industry is an essential service and integral to avoiding a physical and mental health catastrophe.

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ATTENTION VICTORIANS:

Following the State Government’s announcement, VIC Active can confirm that from 11.59pm on Thursday the 17th of June the following will apply:

Regional Victoria:
➡️Density quotient of 1 person per 4sqm for exercise facilities
➡️Maximum venue capacity of 300 per indoor space and outdoor patron capacity of 1,000 people
➡️Maximum group size: 50 people indoors

Metropolitan Melbourne:
➡️Exercise facilities can reopen with a density quotient of 1 person per 4sqm
➡️Maximum venue capacity of 150, including no more than 50 indoors
➡️Maximum group size: 10 people

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ATTENTION VICTORIANS:

With only two days until our petition closes, VIC Active and Fitness Australia ask that every single fitness centre member, employee and owner to sign this petition that will be tabled in the Victorian Parliament early next week.

Our purpose is simple:

To request that the Legislative Council call on the Andrews Labor Government to reverse its attacks of the fitness industry and immediately reopen gyms, fitness centres and yoga and pilates studios.

We have to STAND UP to make a difference!

Please click on the link below to sign and support!

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/index.php?option=com_rsform&view=rsform&formId=74&Itemid=1054&petition_id=360

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ATTENTION:

VIC Active and Fitness Australia ask every single fitness centre member, employee and owner to sign this petition that will be tabled in the Victorian Parliament.

Our purpose is simple:

To request that the Legislative Council call on the Andrews Labor Government to reverse its attacks of the fitness industry and immediately reopen gyms, fitness centres and yoga and pilates studios.

We have to STAND UP to make a difference!

Please click on the link in our bio,
➡️ scroll to e-petition
➡️ View & Sign e-petitions,
➡️ click e-petition 347 to sign and support!

ATTENTION VICTORIANS:

VIC Active, with the support of Fitness Australia, has been overwhelmed with support from Victorians who want to see their local fitness centre open.

We need to harness this support to avoid a physical and mental health catastrophe.

We’re asking you to sign a petition that will be tabled in the Victorian Parliament.

Our purpose is simple:

To request that the Legislative Council call on the Andrews Labor Government to reverse its attacks of the fitness industry and immediately reopen gyms, fitness centres and yoga and pilates studios.

Please click on the link in our bio, scroll down e-petition, click View & Sign e-petitions, click e-petition 347 to sign and support!

Thank you to for fighting for out industry.

Exercise and activity is not a 'luxury', it is a necessity. Exercise facilities must be open.

VIC Call to Arms 🔈 https://bit.ly/3pyFbgx

We are encouraging all Gym, Fitness Facility, Pilates and Yoga studio owners where it's COVID-19 safe to take a photo out the front of their closed facility and post the image on their social channels and tag the below accounts:












Repost, re-share now and tag us in your own posts and use the hashtag - let's make some noise.

It’s imperative that our community makes a stand, but we need to ensure that everyone is following the current lockdown restrictions at all times.

Check out today’s Herald Sun featuring
Just one of the many fighting for our industry 👊🏼🙌🏽

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🚨IT’S TIME TO PRODUCE THE DATA THAT DEMONSTRATES THAT THE “BEAST” IS OUT OF CONTROL IN FITNESS CENTRES.

🚨CHO SUTTON CAN’T - BECAUSE IT DOESN’T EXIST!

🚨VIC ACTIVE IS SORRY BUT IT’S TIME TO CALL CHO SUTTON OUT - THIS IS BU****IT!

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📍6.8 MILLION GYM VISITS IN VICTORIA SINCE NOVEMBER 2020.

📍ZERO COVID CASES LINKED TO FITNESS CENTRES.

🚨CHO SUTTON HAS GOT IT WRONG – FITNESS CENTRES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COVID SAFE!

STATEMENT - From VIC Active Spokesperson, Tim Schleiger

LOCKDOWN 4.0 – a monumental kick in the guts…….

The fourth COVID lockdown – re-badged as a “circuit breaker” by the clever people in the Premier’s marketing team – is a monumental kick in the guts to all Victorians.

While we have transmission in the community, we need to be vigilant - but do we really need to lockdown? It is interesting that the NSW Premier does not think so!

We have been here before and have had 15 months to find a way to live with this virus. After a fourth outbreak it is stating the obvious that our hotel quarantine system is sadly below par.

VIC Active reminds members that fitness centres are COVID-Safe. There has not been one COVID case linked to a fitness centre in Victoria.

The DHHS dismissed our data and yet the Government’s own budget announced last week was framed around a mental health catastrophe.

We have demonstrated that we are COVID-Safe and that we were critical to the health and wellbeing of Victorians, using academically and scientifically collected evidence.

It is testament to the strength and courage of the owners, managers and fitness professionals who are still in business and serving Victorians. VIC Active shares the comments of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Lord Mayor Sally Capp who are calling for the Victorian Government to support impacted businesses. There is no JobKeeper, no JobSeeker and no relief from the ATO during Lockdown 4.0.

The regional fitness industry has been hit hard – demonstrated by the number of fitness centres that have been put up for sale and not to mention the number of staff that have left the industry due to the increasing lack of job security as a result of these continual lockdowns. This can’t keep happening!

One last word……. VIC Active also asks all Victorians who are eligible for vaccination to step forward and do so. The media hysteria about vaccine complications is feeding anxiety in the community. Every vaccine has risks but at 5 in a 1,000,000 those risks are manageable.

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ANNOUNCEMENT:

Following the State Government’s announcement, VIC Active can confirm that fitness centres will be forced to close at 11.59PM tonight.

Even before the pandemic, fitness centres were already highly regulated, clean and sanitary environments.

The link between physical activity and mental wellbeing is clear.

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ANNOUNCEMENT:

Fitness centres are still open!

Following the State Government’s recent announcement, Victoria is set to return to some COVIDSafe Settings from 6:00PM Tuesday 25 May.

➡️Masks will be mandatory for all fitness centre staff, however there is NO mask required if you are exerting yourself.

Business as usual!

Make sure you keep your physical and mental health and wellbeing a priority.

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This weekend, thousands of Victorians will head to their gyms. Whether they're hitting the weights, sweating it up with some cardio, taking part in a class - or even just stopping by for a chat - the gym holds a special place in many weekend rituals.

Fitness centre are vital community hubs where Victorians can exercise, de-stress, socialise and belong.

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