Senior fitness in Perth

The City of Victoria Park's aquatic centre, open from 5.30am on weekdays. Four pools — an outdoor 50m, an indoor 25m, a leisure pool and a hydrotherapy pool — plus a steam room and spa, a gym, and a group fitness programme that includes aqua classes. Casual adult swim entry is $8.20 and gym or group fitness is $20, which makes it one of the cheapest ways into warm water in Perth's inner south-east.

A City of Canning centre running three distinct aqua classes rather than one generic timetable: Aqua Fit as a cardio and conditioning session for sixteen and over, Aqua Stick using rubber bands on a bar for added resistance, and Revitalise Aqua, a low-impact class the city describes as designed for people over fifty. A second pool runs the same programme at Riverton. Bookings open twenty-two hours before each class.

A Canning Highway gym for people over 50 and nobody else, with classes capped at eight and led by physiotherapists. There is a six-week starting programme, one-to-one sessions, and physiotherapy in the same room.

Strength coaching aimed squarely at middle-aged and older adults, one to one or online, taking people from those finding daily tasks hard to those training around an old injury. Running coaching and gait assessment are offered alongside.

An Innaloo practice on Ellen Stirling Boulevard running reformer classes and a gym floor alongside the physiotherapy rooms, with an infrared sauna on site. A standing over-fifties strength class runs under its own name rather than being folded into the general timetable. HICAPS is on site, so health fund claims are processed at the desk.