I’m Billie.

I am a strength and powerlifting coach. I also co-own The Strength Fortress, a strength and powerlifting club, a third space, and a positively brilliant little community hub near my home in Maidstone, in Melbourne’s inner west.

I love introducing people to strength and barbell training. I think negative gym experiences are far too common, and can often be corrected with some decent support. The assumption that we should be able to navigate the gym alone limits people. My greatest passion lies in helping people get started — learning the fundamentals of how to lift safely and effectively, and how to progress their training to achieve serious results.

I love sport, and I love opening someone’s mind to the idea of sport. Exercise and hard training are brilliant for you, but you can take that one step further if it interests you. Sport can provide structure, direction and goals for your training. It provides a mode of self-challenge, an opportunity to formalise your results and recognise your efforts, and a way to express yourself in an entirely different way. I enjoy paving the path and bridging the gap between dabbling in the gym and actually letting it become an exciting and fulfilling hobby.

I am passionate about community. The Strength Fortress is my great pride and my life’s work for 1000 different reasons. A major one is that it provides a third space and an opportunity to foster community and connection in an increasingly digital and detached world. We bring people together under our roof, and it’s a great joy.

If you’re in Melbourne, I’d love to share what I know about barbell training under our roof at The Strength Fortress. Or if you’re from far and wide, you can find more information about online remote coaching under the coaching page.