GSD Performance - Colin Barnes

Our Story

About GSD Performance

GSD Performance was established in 2019 as a boutique small group class and personal training facility to challenge the status quo in the fitness industry. We work on every aspect of “fitness” – mindset, movement and nourishment to enhance your ability to Get Sh#t Done and live your best life.

We live our best lives when we Get Shit Done. We’re here to support the development of a strong mindset, moving your body well, and nourishment of that body and mind. We are a boutique gym making a big impact on the lives of our people.

No matter where you are on your journey, coaches and clients alike will inspire your progress. Our coaches educate you across our 3 pillars of fitness. Our clients push each other to better themselves and have a great time doing it. We rise the tides as one.

GSD Performance

Who We Are

Our Values

Our coaches lead by example. We never ask our clients to do something we are not prepared to do ourselves.

We show empathy to each other, as coaches or clients. We have the opportunity to make everyone’s experience inside our 4 walls the best part of their day. This is a rare privilege we don’t take for granted. We enjoy what we do and we spread that energy to those around us – we embrace the struggles in our workouts as we know they help build the resilience to face them in other aspects of our life. We “sweep the sheds” – leaving the gym in as good a state as we find it every time.

Effort over everything. Our best effort each day is all we ask of our people. We are focussed on the process, that with consistency brings the outcome.

When it comes to our 3 pillars, movement, mindset and nourishment – we retain a state of awareness. We don’t strive for perfection, we establish a balance that optimises our outcome.

We celebrate our wins, we celebrate the opportunity to move our bodies well, we celebrate the opportunities to eat good food, we celebrate our opportunities to learn and growth with each other.

Meet Our Founder

Colin Barnes

GSD Performance - Colin Barnes

Growing up, I was the skinny kid, happy to just fit in, and not stand out at anything. Played lots of sports at an average level, never really wanted the ball to come to me in case I stuffed up, and used to hate any form of attention in a group situation.

Fast forward a few years, one of my favourite places to be is out in front of a large group of clients, teaching them how to move better and motivating them to push themselves.

I started training in gyms in my mid teens, determined to make myself stronger, and put some muscle on to my skinny frame. My passion for health and fitness has evolved over the years, as I realised more and more that fitness is not just about what you do in the gym.

After a bit of a mental and physical breakdown in my late twenties from pushing too hard to get ahead in my corporate career, I realised I needed to get balance back in my life. This was a pivotal point for me, I prioritised my well being, constantly working on my mindset and how I reacted to stress, kept physically active consistently and focused on fuelling my body better. From that point forward my peers would constantly comment on my relaxed nature at all times. I also worked much harder on developing people around me, not trying to do everything myself, but focus more on giving back.

In 2016, I took my passion a step further and did my fitness qualifications on line, just for interests sake. A pivotal seminar, and a part time coaching opportunity at my gym at the time (I was helping them with some business/finance/admin stuff on the side) and the rest is history.

Since that date, I have taken everything in, drawing on experiences in my 20 year corporate career through my coaching to relate to clients and come up with strategies to improve their lives. We start with mindset, understand where you’re at and what steps we can take to get you on the path to your goals, we work on improving your movement, teach you some new skills and ensure you enjoy your training, we also educate you on how to nourish your body with nutrition and recovery.

I got into this with a goal of helping people however I could, and look forward to helping you GSD!!