Revealed: Fraser Coast’s best gym 2023

Meet the charismatic couple behind the gym voted the region’s best this year, and find out how much they won the 2023 poll by. Watch the video:

Cambel Black thanks Fraser Coast Chronicle readers for voting Maryborough Fitness Health and Bodyworks the Fraser Coast Best Gym for 2023

We put the call out to our readers to nominate the Fraser Coast’s best gym and received hundreds of responses online.

We can now reveal, as voted by our readers, Maryborough Fitness Health and Bodyworks is the Fraser Coast‘s best gym for 2023.

The local, family-owned business dominated the polls gaining 28 per cent of the votes, 14 per cent more than runner-up Hervey Bay 24 Hr Gym.

To owners Chris and Tina Black, the win is recognition for the “awesome” customer service the gym has consistently provided since first opening in 2008.

The duo aspires to make every customer feel “important” and want to create an environment where people of “all shapes and sizes” feel welcomed.

Chris and Tina Black are the owners of Maryborough Fitness Health and Bodyworks, voted the Fraser Coast's Best Gym for 2023.

Maryborough Fitness Health and Bodyworks survived the 2008 global financial crisis, competition from franchise gyms, the Covid pandemic and the 2022 floods to become the success story it is.

Chris said he was thankful for the local community who he says had helped “see us through everything that has occurred”.

The couple has passed down their passion for physical activity to their children, Cambel and Allana, who now help manage the facility.

The family says the business is “bigger” and “better” than it has ever been, and if Maryborough Fitness Health and Bodyworks continues on the track it is on, it is likely to be one of the Fraser Coast’s best gyms for years to come.