About Team8 Active

Changing the way
the Northern Beaches
ages.

We're not a gym that tolerates the over 50s. We're a gym built entirely for them — by physiotherapists who believe ageing well is a science, a practice, and a community.

The Mission

Medicine saves lives.
Prevention enhances them.

We're fortunate in Australia to have one of the world's best medical systems. By design, it's built to treat disease — to diagnose, manage, and step in powerfully when something goes wrong. That matters, and we're grateful for it.

But the system was never built to lead prevention at a lifestyle level. There's no dedicated industry focused on preventing chronic illness before it begins, on proactive check-ups before symptoms appear, on preventing decline after treatment, or on building strength, mobility, and resilience as we age.

That gap is exactly why Team8 exists. Through exercise — in a safe, supportive environment for the over-50s, under the guidance of our team — we help people take ownership of their health, so they can live strong, age with capacity, protect their quality of life, and prevent what's preventable.

And we need both.

— Ali Kosh, Founder

The story of Team8

It started with
love.

Chapter 01

Born from love.

Team8 began with love — for life, for people, for community, and for the joy of improving lives. Founded by Ali and Rhea, it started as a physiotherapy practice built on Ali's deep experience as a health professional, serving clients in private practice since 2000. The mission was simple but powerful: help people move better, feel stronger, and live with more freedom and vitality.

Chapter 02

Never settling.

Over the years, Team8 evolved continuously — always striving to take the meaning and impact of its work to the next level. That spirit of growth and purpose gave birth to Team8 Active: a place designed for proactive health management and a higher quality of life.

Chapter 03

More than a gym.

Team8 Active is a community built on care and connection — a place where people over 50 can move with confidence, feel good, and rediscover the joy of movement, all under the guidance of an incredible team of physiotherapists and exercise physiologists. Ali and Rhea built it to bridge the gap between healthcare and wellness, combining professional expertise with human warmth.

A celebration of movement, connection, and the love that started it all.

Behind Team8

The people who
started it.

Team8 began with love — for life, for people, for community. Ali and Rhea built it the way they wished healthcare and fitness would work for everyone they love.

Co-Founder · Principal Physiotherapist

Ali Kosh

A physiotherapist in private practice since 2000, Ali founded Team8 with a simple but powerful mission: help people move better, feel stronger, and live with more freedom. He specialises in complex lower-back pain — and two decades of clinical experience are the foundation every program at Team8 Active is built on.

Co-Founder · Practice Manager

Rhea Smith

Rhea co-founded Team8 alongside Ali and runs the practice day-to-day. She brings the human warmth and operational backbone that frees the clinical team to focus on care — and she's the reason Team8 Active feels less like a gym and more like a community you actually belong to.

A question we're often asked

The best type of
exercise.

"What's the best form of exercise for the human body?"

It's the wrong question — a little like asking for the single best human diet. The better one is: how do you want to live your life? Independent, able to travel, active with the people you love? However you answer, it rests on one thing — physical health: muscles strong enough to move you, bones resilient enough to carry load, joints that support daily life, and a heart that works without strain.

And the body is refreshingly simple in how it gets there — it responds to the stimulus you give it. Apply resistance, and muscles get stronger; apply load, and bones get stronger. That's the whole idea behind Team8 Active: the right stimulus, guided safely by our team, so you can keep living life the way you want to.

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Years of clinical physiotherapy expertise

100%

Qualified physios and exercise physiologists

Targeted classes every week

Northern Beaches over 50s home

Visit us

Come and see
the place.

Tours are free, take 30 minutes, and there's never any pressure. Meet the team, see the space, and decide for yourself.

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Changing the way the Northern Beaches ages.

Medicine saves lives.Prevention enhances them.

It started withlove.