NDIS strength and conditioning, Sydney
Structured gym-based training for NDIS participants who want to get stronger for a sport, not simply keep moving.
Most NDIS exercise support stops at general activity. Strength and conditioning is a different job. It asks what your sport or your daily life actually demands of you, then builds the capacity to meet it, with the load written down and progressed on purpose.
Our S&C coaches work alongside your physiotherapist or exercise physiologist rather than separately from them, so the gym programme and the rehab programme are one plan.
Built around a goal, not a diagnosis
We work with participants who have something specific they are training towards. That might be competition, a community sport, or being able to do something at home that is currently out of reach.
Para-athletes in competition
Athletes training for club, state, national or Paralympic level. Programming is written around your classification, your event and your training calendar.
Community sport
Participants who play a sport week to week and want to hold up to the demands of it across a season rather than breaking down mid-year.
Strength after a long gap
Participants returning to training after surgery, a long admission or an extended period of inactivity, where the first job is rebuilding tolerance before anything else.
Wheelchair and seated athletes
Upper limb and trunk programming for wheelchair sport, seated throws and para-cycling, with attention to the shoulder load that comes with daily propulsion as well as training.
Measured, written down and progressed
We test before we prescribe. At Five Dock that includes force plate testing, which gives us a number for how much force each side can produce and how quickly. For participants with an asymmetry, whether from a limb difference, a neurological condition or a past injury, that number is the difference between guessing and knowing.
What a block looks like
- An assessment session covering strength, movement and whatever your sport asks of you.
- A written programme with sets, repetitions and loads, not a list of exercises.
- Sessions coached in the gym, with the loads reviewed as you go.
- Re-testing at the end of the block, so the next one starts from evidence.
Working with your other supports
If you already have a physiotherapist, an exercise physiologist or a support coordinator elsewhere, we are happy to work alongside them. Tell us at the first call and we will make sure the programmes agree with each other rather than pulling in different directions.
Where it happens
Both clinics have a full gym floor. Five Dock also has the anti-gravity treadmill and force plates. Sessions are one to one, so the room is not shared with three other people on different programmes.
Questions we get asked
Can NDIS funding pay for strength and conditioning?
Do I need to be an athlete?
Is this the same as a gym membership?
Tell us what you are training for
A free 15 minute call is enough for us to say whether this is the right fit and what a first block would involve.
Plan managed and self managed welcome · No referral needed · Five Dock & Gladesville