Day ends F45 reign of 'unbeatable' world champ
It took a world record to do it, but Peter Day finally ended the reign of F45 Playoffs world champion Jayce Love-Attard.
Day, 25, took out the F45 Playoffs event at the Australian Open of Surfing in Manly.
The extreme test of fitness and strength pits the competitors on a course containing ten different exercises, 45 seconds on and 15 seconds rest.
The competitors then receive a score out of 1000 for their efforts.
Until this weekend no-one has been able to touch Love-Attard. He won the event last year at Manly as well as the World Championship in the US.
Day, stung by finishing second to Love-Attard at the World Championship finally got his revenge.
“(Love-Attard) has been undefeated until yesterday, he has never lost and I got him by just nine points,” Day said.
“It feels really good, he only just got me in the states.
“Everyone has been saying he is unbeatable, he has had this aura. This time last year he beat everyone, he owned it again in the US.
“But I broke the world record, I got 917. The record before that was 887 so it was a great effort. I am just stoked, it hasn’t sunk in yet.”
Day and Love-Attard are close though and actually compete in the same team for the teams event.
Not surprisingly their team, F45 Seaforth won the event.
After returning from the US as an F45 Training ambassador and visiting a number of franchises around the country Day decided to buy his own and now owns and runs F45 Training Seaforth.
Being a local boy made the win all the sweeter.
“I am just so stoked for the win, the individual and the teams,” he said.
The guys are all over the moon and it’s great for us being local too. The whole event has just been awesome.”
F45 Training has exploded in popularity in the last year.
The team behind it has hopes that the F45 Test will become the main fitness test used by sporting teams around the country, replacing the outdated but still much-used beep test.
Rob Deutsch, the founder and owner of F45 Training is also hoping to make a big move into the US this year and is in talks with NFL and NBA teams to take it on board.
“The beep test is just aerobic. It has no peer to it, no functional ability, no strength component,” he said.
"We think this is the most all-encompassing fitness test out there.
"We already have a lot of sporting teams here in Australia taking it on as one of their measures. We have rugby teams using it, AFL teams using it and we are speaking to NFL and NBA teams about using it.
“We have already launched it at Huntongton Beach for the US Open of Surfing and we have it at American college football games and the deal we have done with IMG-WME allows us to push into America a lot more.”
This time last year F45 had 125 franchises here, now they are up to 310.
But that is small fry compared to Deutsch’s ambition in North America.
“We only want to see about 400 franchises in Australia which should be in June this year,” he said.
“In the States we have 40 at the moment, our goal is to have 175 this year and then we want to set up a minimum of 500 a year until we have 8000 franchises there.”