A gym owner moves Enterprise Fitness to a new location in Melbourne, renting a truck and loading equipment with his team before a 4:30 pm deadline. The move marks a shift from his old Brunswick gym and the launch of a removalist side business, with his team now grown to 19 people.
Today is moving day. This is a day that I've waited for 3 and a half years since buying the property. The sun is shining here in Melbourne, and so it should be. The end of an era and the dawn of a new one is upon us. We're at Budget Rent-A-Truck and we're gonna rent a truck, funnily enough, being at Budget Rent-A-Truck. And we're gonna move as much gym equipment as we possibly can in a day. And the goal is to be— have enough gym equipment at Victoria Street so so we can start training clients at 4:30 today. It's now 12 o'clock, so we've got a few hours to get shit done. We're not gonna be able to move everything. I've got the other movers coming, the professional guys, to disassemble the racks and the cable machines because ain't no way we're moving that. So they're coming Friday. So our goal is to move as much as we can today. Let's see how we go. This is me. Keys, keys, wallet, phone. All right, buckle up, baby. Here we go. A few minutes later. Let's do it, Papa. All right, uh, the tailgate's not big enough. We are— go put these two sides on the tailgate and hold this one up. Like we said, spin around that way, Tom. Spin around, come that way. Where's Kate? Kay, it's all upper body. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Kay, it's all chest. No, no, no, no. It's all upper body. Try to get your shoulders in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice, good, good, good. It's on, it's on, it's on, it's on. A little bit more and we're all the way on it. 3, 2, 1. Oh no, I thought he did. Good, good, good, good, good. It's all the way on, so we're sweet. Yeah, beautiful. Yeah, we're all good, we're all good. Stop, stop, stop, stop. How are we doing today? Yeah, all right, mate. All right, it's a bit busy today, isn't it? Grand opening coming soon. So we're actually opening up our own removalist company and Price Fitness removalists. Got some staff members here as well. So Cristiano's just a new employee. James is the actual— he's actually our apprentice for the removalist company. Removalist R Us, mate. We would fucking kill it. I'm feeling excited to move to a new place. Um, I want to be the first to get some bicep curls in as well. Oh my days! Oh wow, so there is an alarm. I'll just turn it off before it goes off. And then look how simple this is. Look how simple this is. Fresh. 1, 2, 3. 3, 4, 5, done. Beautiful. Very easy. We're on. Oh, here he goes already, the first one. Go to the side, look at that, it hits the light. There it is. Hey, look at the size of that shower head. Beautiful. Damn, you're down here. Little speaker on there. Having a shower. Wait, is there a rattle on it? Oh boy, that can max out. Have a little fucking shower. Hey, let's talk the leg day. You think I can hold the weight at the top? Keep going, keep going! Hit the top! Hit the top! Don't hit the aircon! We just moved in! We have equipment here. Yes, the guys have just realized The fart smells like new. Yeah, somebody just farted. Hey, I don't know if you can feel this still. Do it again, do it again. I didn't get it on camera. Come back again, come back up. Take off your shirt. You look like Madame Tussauds. Skinny boy. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Let it rest on the dolly. Just hold the other end. Hands up. 3, ready, 2, 1. Dolly's off. Hold it, hold it, hold it. Yep, good. No, no, no, no. 3, 2, 1, big push. I remember coming here for the first time in 2012 and checking this out, and I remember thinking to myself, if not now, when? I moved from Beldis in Brunswick here with 3 guys, and 3 guys became 6, and 6 became 12, and 12 became a team of now 19. And is it bittersweet? No, it's fucking exciting. This is the end of an era, the beginning of a new at Victoria Street. We did so much with— when you look at this building the way it is, it's quite bare. We did so much with so little. And now moving into Victoria Street, I really feel that we're going to be able to do so much because we have so much more, so much more in us, so much more to give. Said to my team last Tuesday, this is not a homecoming of us moving to a nice facility is not a homecoming. It's day fucking one. Let's fucking go. Welcome to Enterprise Fitness. I'm going to swing, and I'm going to swing as hard as I ever have, and also back myself into a corner where I I don't have another option. Either go bankrupt or make this a success and make this everything that I want it to be. So that's what I'm working towards.
