WA doesn't license personal trainers, but it does regulate them. The fitness industry code (opens in a new tab), mandatory since 1 July 2021, applies to every fitness supplier in the state, and Consumer Protection gives "a person operating a business as a personal trainer" and an outdoor boot camp as examples. Beyond public pricing, it sets a minimum seven-day cooling-off period for membership agreements, a summary at the start of each agreement listing the services, term, fees and total payable, a 12-month limit on prepaid memberships, and cancellation in writing with linked direct debits stopped. Our gyms page compares it with the codes in Queensland and the ACT. Whether a particular pack or plan counts as a membership agreement is a question for Consumer Protection or your own adviser; we lay out the terms you confirm.
Outdoors, Perth's parks are split between a state authority and a patchwork of local governments, and each has its own approval. In Kings Park, the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority requires an application from organised groups doing personal fitness training and group fitness (opens in a new tab), with a first aid certificate and a public liability certificate of currency, and sells sessions in blocks priced by group size. Trainers use approved areas: Poolgarla Parkland, Saw Avenue Lawn East, Broadwalk Vista, Fraser Avenue Lawn North (October to April) and the Exhibition Ground (after 3pm). Equipment must stand on its own rather than being staked into the ground, bench presses, rowing machines, ropes, steppers and weight bars aren't allowed, and nor are whistles, amplified music or shouting. A boot camp built around battle ropes belongs somewhere else, and the site should say so.
The councils differ again. The City of Vincent (opens in a new tab) issues six-month group fitness permits for one designated park each, with a separate application for every reserve and fees tiered for groups of up to 5, up to 10 and up to 20 participants. The City of South Perth (opens in a new tab) takes personal trainer bookings online with a trading licence application, charges by the year in class-size bands up to 30, and opens Sir James Mitchell Park on the foreshore in zones 5 to 15 only. The Town of Cambridge (opens in a new tab) needs a licence for paid groups of three or more, caps a class at 25, allows no more than three reserves, 12 hours a week and sessions between 6am and 9pm. That's why a Perth trainer's timetable should name the exact zone or reserve, keep advertised group sizes inside the permit, and change only after the approval does.
People search by the suburb they live or work in, so a page per area often makes sense: one for the inner north around Leederville and Mount Lawley, one for the South Perth foreshore, one for the western suburbs towards City Beach, each naming its parks, gym partners and home-visit suburbs. We're an Adelaide team and work with Perth trainers by phone and email; Adelaide is an hour and a half ahead of Perth, or two and a half while South Australia is on daylight saving, so we book calls around your early sessions. We haven't built a personal trainer's site and have no clients in WA yet; the two sites below show the parts a trainer would reuse.