Women-only gym to go 24 hours

Configure Express managing director Greg Peters said gym requirements were changing and his business was following global trends.

People wanted shorter contracts and better availability, he said.

"The gym market has changed since we first set up and we were going in a different direction than other gyms."

Overseas the trend was for smaller gyms to feed into bigger gyms and he planned to open Configure 24 hours gyms to work alongside the Configure Express franchise.

There was still a market for female only gyms but his business had to make changes to be successful.

In some areas it was not possible for the gyms to follow the new direction, which led to closure and splits, he said.