About

Our mission is to provide you with a unique fun-filled fitness experience that will inspire you to find your balance in life. Balance isn’t just something you need when you’re learning to ride a bike. It’s the harmony between body, mind and soul. Achieving balance is about living a life that’s filled with a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. Time and again we tend to eat too much, sleep too little, work too hard and laugh too seldom. We should try to find the harmony between stressing and stretching, squats and shots and burgers and bench presses.

Our clubs are friendly places. It doesn’t make a difference what shape you’re in, because you’ll always fit in. Our facilities are world-class, immaculate and our services are always innovative. We value and respect our member’s needs at all times and take ownership of requests and challenges. We strive to educate our members on a healthy lifestyle and treat our members with integrity.

We are very proud of Planet Fitness Platinum that launched in the heart of Sandton in November 2008. We have no doubt that our market share will continue to grow in the future. In fact, Planet Fitness is currently in the process of an exciting national rollout, which will eventually culminate in 40 world-class fitness centres – to be established in all major growth areas of South Africa.

In 1989, Rivera came to South Africa to do consultancy work for various groups, including the Sports Connection, but ended up settling here permanently after marrying a beautiful South African lady. After a few years in the country, Rivera identified a gap in the local health and fitness market and decided to start his own chain of health clubs. This was during the days of the Health and Racquet group, then a very dominant player in the health and fitness market, and Rivera’s ideas were to say the least, scoffed at.  However, Rivera had an unflinching conviction that his ideas could work.

Importantly, Rivera not only had raw passion but sheer determination as well, to turn his vision into a reality. Rivera remembers that to open the first Planet Fitness 10 years ago in Benoni, he and his colleagues had to work 18 hours a day, almost 7 days a week. It was that tough, remembers Rivera, and they were new in the market, this made it doubly difficult for them, he says.

18 years later, Planet Fitness now stands at 23 health clubs, one premium health club and are on the brink of launching a new low cost budget chain. Notwithstanding the rapid growth of our group to date, Manny and the rest of our Directors fully appreciate that expansion has to be controlled – and that this factor will be crucial to the future success of their business.

Ultimately, it remains a question of building solid foundations and making sure that market demands are met with only the best facilities and service professionalism. It is indeed an exciting time for Planet Fitness as we move into a new phase of development and we eagerly look forward to the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. There are great things to come – we invite you to join us on our adventure!

This is a group environment personal training session, so we will not put you on the spot – promise! You can expect the following in this session: Goal setting (our fitness professional will help you to pick the goal that is right for you), a fitness assessment, program design, club induction and tour. So you will know where everything is, how to use the facility and also how to measure your progress.