About RIPT fitness

About RIPT fitness

RIPT fitness is based on the southern end of the beautiful Sunshine Coast. We make the most of our beautiful beaches and stunning recreational grounds so you can train outdoors in a beautiful our environment and fresh air. If you want to get fit while having fun, Ript fitness is for you!

It doesn’t matter whether you want to get fit or just want to get fitter, you are 20 or 50, you are male or female, RIPT fitness caters for everyone, so YES we cater for YOU!

You might want outdoor bootcamps (heaps of FUN and LAUGHS), you might like small group training or you might prefer some 1 on 1 personal training, it doesn’t matter what style of training you like, RIPT fitness can help you with your health and fitness goals, and can change your life.

Our outdoor bootcamps are all about being active outside, while having and awesome time doing it. These classes incorporate body weight strength training, high intensity cardio to military inspired sessions with Battle ropes sandbags kettlebells and more! With Bootcamp classes held daily in Caloundra, Pelican Waters, Bellvista and surrounding areas there is something for everyone!

RIPT’s small group training and one on one sessions are designed for those that want even more personalised results. Are you training for something in particular? Do you like working out with just a few friends? Or are you looking for specific one on one training? All this and more is available in our personal training studio but remember we still have that emphasis on getting fit while having fun!

We will not only train you but help you to realise your full potential and achieve your goals!!

Meet Jess

Jess loves to motivate, inspire and help people achieve their health and fitness goals while having fun!

Jess lives and promotes a healthy lifestyle with her family on the Sunshine Coast and loves to meet and train new people.

Jess has been around the fitness industry for over 15 years. Jess is a fully qualified personal trainer (cert 3 and 4 in fitness), qualified group trainer, teaching Body pump, T3 and Spin plus Jess is fully qualified in first aid and CPR. Working and managing gyms across the globe has given Jess the experience to be able to help, motivate and inspire people from so many different walks of life.

Jess previously built her gym based group fitness classes to some of the biggest on the Sunshine Coast, in fact some of the gyms she worked for had to give her bigger rooms and buy more equipment to stop turning people away! Jess has helped countless people achieve their health and fitness goals but always made her underlying vision, lets get fit but lets have fun!

Jess has competed in triathlons, 10k fun runs, Spartan races, true grit and more. Her biggest achievement is her 2 boys that keep her laughing and youthful all the time

Jess Thompson

Head Trainer and Owner of RIPT fitness

Qualified In:

Certificate III in Fitness

Certificate IV in Fitness

Group Fitness Trainer

Body Pump Instructor

T3 Functional Training Instructor

Spin Instructor

First Aid & CPR Certificate

“Gyms are great, but can be so overwhelming especially for new people. People question themselves, where do I start? Are people looking at me? What does this machine do?

I really wanted to to have classes and groups where like-minded people wanted to get fit and healthy but also have heaps of fun and a laugh in a relaxed, no judgement environment. Plus where better to train than out doors on the sunshine coast!

I know what it like to gain weight, I put on over 20kgs each time I was pregnant with my 2 boys so I know what it takes to make that first, second and even third step towards getting into (or back into) fitness, so come along and I guarantee you will not only feel awesome but will have a laugh to!”

– Jess Thompson, Founder of RIPT fitness.