Best personal trainers in Toowoomba 2025 revealed

From a person who found fitness passion later in life to a young man who has risen in the face of adversity, these are the stories of the best personal trainers in Toowoomba.

Pictured are a handful of the amazing personal trainers in the running for Toowoomba’s best PT.

Winner: Annemarie Lyons at Health by numb3rs (13% of votes)

Annemarie Lyons from Health by Numb3rs has been voted the top personal trainer in Toowoomba in 2025.

Annemarie Lyons has had a passion for fitness for a long time, but it wasn’t until she was about 50 that she decided to turn her passion into a profession.

The 61-year-old personal trainer has been voted the Best in Toowoomba and she said although many of her peers were a few years younger than her, getting her certification was the best decision she’s made.

“Yes, everyone else was younger than me, but it just felt right. I was passionate about it so it didn’t feel awkward,” she said.

“Age is a number and if you think old, you will be old. I don’t feel you’re ever too old to follow your passion.”

After doing coaching part-time Lyons started up her own gym and Health by Num3rs has been running for about 10 years.

“It’s really important particularly as we age because we lose bone density, we lose muscle mass, it’s important to keep up the strength work,” she said.

From boxing, to yoga, strength training and pilates, Lyons can do it all.

2nd place: Riley O’Toole at Anytime Fitness (9% of votes)

Riley O’Toole from Anytime Fitness has been voted in the top three personal trainers in Toowoomba

Anytime Fitness trainer Riley O’Toole, 23, is missing one thing that most other PTs have, and it is certainly not determination or grit.

Mr O’Toole was born with kidney failure and he has been living with no kidneys since a failed transplant when he was 15.

“That put me in, I would say the unhealthiest point in my life,” he said.

“You’ve got two choices, you either lay down and die or you can do something about your circumstances and make them the best you can given the cards you’ve got.”

Mr O’Toole, who had always been a keen runner, slowly got back into exercising, and said it helped him physically and mentally.

His donor was his mother and Mr O’Toole said after the transplant didn’t work he struggled with the guilt of having put his mother through the donation for it to be unsuccessful.

“The second-hand survivor’s guilt was probably the worst form of depression I’ve ever experienced in my life,” he said.

Mr O’Toole has been a haemodialysis patient since then, and he said looking back he never could have imagined he would be standing here today, let alone lifting weights.

“If you had told me that I would be potentially one of the most popular trainers in Toowoomba I would have laughed in your face and called you a liar,” he said.

3rd place: Jake Stoner at Complete Body Toowoomba (7% of votes)

Jake Stoner from Complete Body has been voted in the top three personal trainers in Toowoomba.

After realising work as a sparky wasn’t filling his cup Jake Stoner was in search of a career where he could work closely with people to make a difference in their lives.

“Just getting to see people walk through the door on day one and seeing the change in them,” he said.

“It’s very rewarding that, as good as it makes me feel to do a job like this, it has a massive impact on those people around me.”

Mr Stoner said he had one piece of advice for people trying to get into the habit of consistent exercise.

“Understand why you want to do it,” he said.

“Motivation is fleeting, but if you have a strong enough ‘why’ and you understand why you want to do something it’s going to be a lot easier.”