Two coaches. One room. You, known by name.
Steven leads Halligan's Fitness. Danielle coaches alongside him. Together, over 50 years of getting real people — especially women 40+ — moving again and keeping them moving.
6+ AUSactive titles
Incl. 2024 National Group Exercise Instructor of the Year
34 years of coaching people back to themselves.
Steven has spent 34 years helping real people move — from Weight Watchers Australia's only male online PT to elite athletes, from someone returning to exercise after twenty years off to the woman navigating menopause who's been told "just walk more."
His speciality is longevity: coaching people 40+ into strength, mobility and consistency they can carry for decades. Injury-aware, joint-kind, and honest about what actually works when life is busy.
He is AUSactive's 2024 National Group Exercise Instructor of the Year, a multiple-time national finalist, and the coach behind Halligan's Fitness since 1991.
Qualifications
Certificate III & IV in Fitness. AUSactive registered. Ongoing continuing-education in strength for 40+ and injury-aware programming.
Specialisations
Strength & longevity for 40+, injury-aware programming, group fitness, functional fitness, return-to-exercise.
The coach who makes the room feel like yours.
Danielle has coached for 20 years, with a specific focus on the women who tend to fall through the cracks of most fitness programs — women returning after a long break, working through menopause symptoms, or navigating pelvic-floor considerations after birth or surgery.
She leads a chunk of the weekly timetable and is the person most likely to know your kids' names, your last knee flare-up, and the week you finally strung four classes together. Where Steven brings the programming, Danielle brings the behaviour change.
Qualifications
Certificate III & IV in Fitness. Menopause-aware coaching. Pelvic-floor-informed movement.
Specialisations
Women 40+, menopause and peri-menopause, return-to-exercise, low-impact training, habit and behaviour change.
The awards wall.
2024 · AUSactive Awards
National Group Exercise Instructor of the Year
2023 · AUSactive Awards
Functional Fitness Trainer of the Year — National Winner
2023 · AUSactive Awards
People's Choice Small Business — National Winner