Know the person
Start with your goals, preferences and the life around your training. Listen before choosing the work.
Our North Star
Stronger for the life you want to live.
For your sport. For a full week. For the things you love. You might want to feel stronger, find a rhythm or keep your independence. Whatever brings you through the door, we begin with what matters to you.
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Human first. Athlete second.
There’s room for your starting point.
You do not need to arrive fit, experienced or competitive. There is room to learn, ask questions and find your feet. You may recognise more than one starting point below. Tell us yours.
Training within a full lifeA place for training alongside everything else.
What might matter
You may want to build strength, fitness and consistency in an ordinary week. Work, leadership, parenting or caring may be part of the picture. You want a rhythm that fits your life, rather than another plan that asks for a different one.
A question worth asking
What would you like training to give you? What does a realistic week look like?
Help to explore
Coached Strength & Conditioning follows a shared program, adapted by a coach to your starting point and the day. Private coaching offers more individual attention.
Explore Strength & ConditioningYour starting conversation
Talk with the team about your goals and availability. New S&C members complete onboarding before ongoing coached training.
Link to this starting pointFinding a way in or backYou do not have to know where to begin.
What might matter
This may be your first gym, or your first Session in a while. Training alone or following an app may have left you unsure what to do next. You may want time to learn and someone to ask.
A question worth asking
What has helped before? What made it difficult to continue? What would help you feel comfortable starting?
Help to explore
One-to-one onboarding gives you space to learn the lifts and the why before the coached floor. Share concerns so the team can help you find an appropriate next step.
Explore individual supportYour starting conversation
A Free Intro is a conversation with the team, with no obligation to join. If you know your pathway, adult onboarding can be booked directly.
Link to this starting pointTraining for a meaningful goalFor your sport. For the craft. For the joy of it.
What might matter
You may be preparing for a sport or event, enjoying the process of getting stronger, or learning a skill simply because it matters to you. Competition is not an entry requirement.
A question worth asking
What are you working towards? What do you enjoy about training? How does it sit alongside the rest of your week?
Help to explore
S&C offers a shared program adapted by your coach. Athletic Development has an individually written program around your sport, goals and season. The choice starts with what you need.
Explore Athletic DevelopmentYour starting conversation
Discuss your goals with the team, or explore adult and athlete onboarding. A goal does not automatically decide your membership.
Link to this starting pointDeveloping as a young athleteRoom to learn, grow and enjoy the work.
What might matter
For the young person: confidence, skills, enjoyment and their own goals. For a parent or guardian: understanding the coaching, suitable support and how it fits around school and transport.
A question worth asking
Ask the young person: what do you enjoy, and what would you like to learn? Ask the guardian separately: what support and practical arrangements do you need?
Help to explore
Junior coaching and the Junior 6-Week Intro are for ages 10 to 18. The school-holiday performance day is a different offer for ages 8 to 15. Coaching is adapted to age and stage.
Explore junior coachingYour starting conversation
Check the relevant age range and speak with the team together. The Junior 6-Week Intro includes its own onboarding Session.
Link to this starting pointStaying strong as an older adultStrength for the life you want to keep living.
What might matter
You may want to keep doing everyday tasks, enjoy time with family, pursue interests or protect your independence and quality of life. Your starting point and ambitions are your own.
A question worth asking
What would you like to keep doing, or feel more confident doing? What support would make training useful and enjoyable?
Help to explore
Coached S&C and private coaching offer different levels of support. Your coach works with your experience, goals and relevant constraints; age alone does not choose your program.
Explore coached trainingYour starting conversation
Begin with a conversation about what matters to you. The team can explain onboarding and help you choose suitable support.
Link to this starting pointHow we coach
First, we listen.
Then we work together.
A useful plan starts with a conversation about your goals and the life around your training. Then we demonstrate, watch, explain and adjust with you. You should understand the work and feel able to ask why.
Strength & ConditioningA shared program, adapted to you by a coach.
Athletic DevelopmentAn individually written program around your sport, goals and season.
What you can expect from your coach
Teach the work
Explain the purpose in plain language. Demonstrate, observe and give a useful cue so you can understand what you are doing.
Adapt thoughtfully
Your coach adjusts the route with you while keeping the purpose clear. The plan serves the person.
Build useful progress
Notice confidence, skill and repeatable action as well as performance. Compare your progress with your own starting point.
Protect a welcoming room
Know people by their preferred name. Coach without humiliation or pressure. Leave room for questions and different starting points.
Play the long game
Build capability you can keep using. A useful Session today should support your next one, not cost you the chance to return.
Find the right coaching and starting step
Strength & Conditioning
A shared program, adapted to you by a coach. Every semi-private Session is coached and capped at eight.
Explore S&CAthletic Development
An individually written program for your sport, goals and season, delivered on a coached floor.
Explore Athletic DevelopmentPrivate coaching
One-to-one or two-to-one coaching when you want more individual time and attention.
Explore private coachingJunior coaching
Age-appropriate learning and progression. Explore the ongoing pathway and the distinct junior starting offers.
Explore junior optionsNew adult S&C and Athletic Development members complete onboarding before ongoing coached training. Junior starting offers have their own age ranges and onboarding.
Better Every Day.
Progress you can understand.
Progress can be a movement that makes more sense, a skill you want to practise or a rhythm you can return to. We look at your own starting point, alongside the numbers. The aim is useful strength, confidence and understanding, built with patient coaching and a clear next step.
Why the work matters
For everything after the Session.
The Session is part of a bigger life. Your reason might be enjoying your sport, carrying everyday things, getting outside, keeping up with family or staying independent as you get older. You decide what is meaningful. We want the work here to support more of that life, not become its whole measure.
More than a place to train
Good things
with good people.
Making the world a better place starts with how we treat people in this room: welcoming someone new, teaching something useful and making space for different starting points. Beyond the floor, our club, school and workplace partnerships bring coaching and education to groups. Community events offer time to catch up and enjoy good company.
Your next step
Bring what matters to you.
You do not need a perfect plan to begin. A Free Intro is a conversation with the team: a 15-minute phone call or a 30-minute visit. Bring your questions and the things you want training to help you do. We can explore the next step together. No obligation to join.
Book a Free Intro Explore the coaching optionsMeet everyone
The people in your corner.
Meet the coaches, leadership and community team, and independent practitioners at Virtus.
Coaching
Virtus team
Aiden Hinson
Senior Performance Coach & High Performance
National-level triple jumper. Exercise & Sport Science student.
The athlete's athlete.
National-level triple jumper and Exercise & Sport Science student. Elite athlete and coach in one, passionate about athletic development and resilience.
Virtus team
Jordy Love
Head of Coaching and Development
Driven by his years in high performance.
The standard-setter on the floor.
Leads how Virtus coaches: the programming cycle, coaching standards, and developing the next generation through the Virtus Academy.
Virtus team
Maddy Morrison
Senior Performance Coach
Years of real world coaching and lifting experience. Making humans better every step of the way.
Strength, simplicity, and straight talk.
Years of real-world lifting experience and a passion for keeping things simple. Here to help you move well, train hard and feel strong.
Leadership & community
Virtus team
Lachlan Wallace
Founder & Director
Founded Virtus in 2014. Over a decade coaching everyday humans and athletes.
The big-picture guy who sweats the small stuff.
Over a decade of coaching, leading with one intention: do good things with good people. Evidence-based training with care, humour and clarity. The heart behind Better Every Day.
Virtus team
Dakota Watson
General Manager
Completing a Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology.
Your biggest cheerleader with a plan.
Completing a Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology. Blends scientific knowledge with care, humour and connection so everyone who trains with her feels supported.
Virtus team
Georgia Templeton
Growth & Community Manager
The storyteller who makes Virtus shine.
Leads community, social and the member experience. The energy and creativity behind how the Virtus family connects.
Virtus team
Annette Wallace
Facility & Member Care
The warm welcome that keeps the place humming.
Annette looks after the people and the place: the check-ins, the little details and the hundred small things that make Virtus feel like a third home.
Allied health
Independent practice
Greg Dea
Sports Physiotherapy · Prepare to Perform
25+ years across five countries, from armed forces to Olympic and World Cup champions.
At Virtus since 2016. Greg has worked with elite sport at the highest level and now points that experience at weekend warriors, parents and athletes who want to return to sport and life stronger.
How I can help
Pain that will not shift, injuries old and new, returning to sport safely, and anyone told to "just rest" who wants a better answer.
Greg works metres from the training floor. Assessment and rehab flow straight into coached training when you are ready, with your coach and physio pulling in the same direction.
At 1/2 Torca Terrace, Mornington VIC 3931
Independent practice
Nina Keller
Psychology · Mind Haus Psychology
Registered psychologist supporting the mental side of performance and life.
Nina works with the things that hold it all together: stress, mindset, habits, and the seasons of life where everything feels heavy.
How I can help
Stress and overwhelm, performance mindset, habit change, and support through the hard patches.
Training and headspace are one system. Nina works alongside the coaching floor so the mental and physical work reinforce each other.
At 1/2 Torca Terrace, Mornington VIC 3931
You don't need a Virtus training membership to book. Each practice manages its own appointments, fees and clinical records. Your information isn't automatically shared with your coach.
Life at Virtus
The third home.
Loved on Google and Facebook.
Real feedback from real people, published on platforms where we cannot edit a word of it.
★★★★★
Great atmosphere, friendly team, and a really welcoming environment. Can definitely see why so many people recommend this gym!
July 2026 · Google
★★★★★
After being at Virtus for 4 years, I have never been better as an athlete, but also as a person. This people-first gym helps its members to achieve their goals and do the things they love not only through strength & conditioning but by also creating a suppo…
November 2025 · Google
★★★★★
This Mornington strength and conditioning gym genuinely stands out from the rest. Since joining Virtus, the growth I've had - in coaching, education and confidence has been absolutely incredible! It's more than just a strength and conditioning gym; the team…
November 2025 · Google
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