Alumni Spotlight 4- March 2025

James - FIT College Graduate, now Owner TNT Pakenham  

My name is James, I'm a Fit College graduate from 2024 and I'm the new owner of TNT Pakenham. I was inspired to come with PT because I've trained my whole life, Cricket, boxing, strength training, running. I was in construction for 13 years and I was sick of just waking up every day and doing something I didn't like. And every day I'd just be thinking about my training after work, boxing, strength training, whatever it was.

And that's just, I knew that's what I wanted to do Fit College just worked with my schedule and it was very flexible. I wanted to keep my full time job while I was still studying. I thought they had a really good structure of it was broken up well, like we do our theory in the classroom. It wouldn't just be flat out in the classroom, we'd be out on the gym floor learning what we just learnt in the theory. I think we made some really good friendships there too.

I definitely didn't expect to be a business owner so quickly after just finishing my cert 3 and 4. But the opportunity came and I was just in the right place at the right time and my partner backed me and here we are today. We provide strength training classes, boxing classes, circuit classes, cardio classes, we've just started a run club, we've just started kids boxing, we've got a big open gym and a kids area for all the mums at 9:30.

What I love about being a PT and a gym owner now is just it doesn't feel like work. When I come into work I can do a 12/16 hour day and it feels like I've just had fun at the gym all day. Just want to say thanks to Fit College for the course. It was well structured. It was very easy to get my cert three and four and very easy to get into my career.