Most fitness businesses are built around aesthetics. Best Body was built around a funeral — and the question it left behind: what if she'd had a community looking out for her?
Scott Wescombe grew up in a small town in rural Tasmania. His diet as a teenager was Coke and lollies for breakfast. Exercise wasn't part of his world. Health wasn't something anyone had taught him to think about.
Then he was invited to trial for the State Under-18 football team — and everything changed. Not because of a training programme. Because of a group of people who held higher standards, and a strength and conditioning coach who treated him like the person he could become, not the person he was. He switched what he ate. He started training. He made the team.
He didn't think much of it at the time. It was only later that he understood what had actually happened: a community had done what willpower alone never could.
"The research is clear: the single biggest predictor of whether someone changes a health behaviour isn't motivation. It's the people around them. Group coaching and community are not soft extras — they are the mechanism."
Scott's Nan spent her life putting everyone else first. So did his Mum — a nurse for 40 years. Both of them gave and gave, and neither of them had a community consistently looking out for their own health in return.
When his Nan passed, Scott was left with a question he couldn't shake: what if she'd had access to the kind of environment that had changed his life? What if preventable decline wasn't treated as inevitable? What if someone had made it genuinely easy — even enjoyable — for her to keep moving, keep strong, and stay part of something?
That question became Best Body.
Scott went on to complete an Exercise and Sports Science degree, then a Physiotherapy degree with First Class Honours — plus years of practice helping people move from pain and injury back into lives they love. He's written a book. He's worked with thousands of patients and members across Western Australia.
That clinical background shapes everything at Best Body — from the way classes are designed to the instructors we hire and train. We're not guessing. We know what the research says about bone density, muscle loss with age, joint health, and the nervous system. And we've built our programmes around it.
No gimmicks. No treatments we wouldn't recommend for our own families. Just the best available evidence, delivered by people who genuinely care.
It's the prerequisite for everything else you want to do — for your partner, your kids, your work, your life. You can't pour from an empty cup, and you can't be present when your body is working against you.
Reformer Pilates is one of the most effective tools we've found for helping people feel strong, mobile, and genuinely well — at any age, any fitness level. Combine that with instructors who know you by name and a community that shows up for each other, and something remarkable tends to happen.
People don't just get fitter. They get their confidence back. They sleep better. They move through the world differently. They become the person their family sees at their best — not just on good days.
That's what Scott saw in that football community in Tasmania. That's what his Nan deserved. And that's what we're building — one studio, one class, one member at a time.
17 studios across Western Australia. No lock-in. No catch.
No fitness prerequisite. No commitment. Just an Instructor who'll meet you wherever you are.