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Balance Learn · The ten-week course

Understand change.
Build what lasts.

Why do you fall back into old habits, even when you know what you want to do? Learn helps you understand the patterns behind your choices and practise a different way forward.

For people who can already exercise independently: work through ten learning sections online, with one 45-minute Zoom teaching lesson each week.

Explore the ten learning sections →
What you'll learn

One idea at a time.
Build your understanding.

Begin with brain basics, then explore prediction, experience, energy, habits and food. There are six lessons in Week 1 and four or five in later weeks, with no required practical tasks.

Balance Learn: The Ten-Week Course

WEEK 1Meet your brain

Meet the researchers, explore how your brain constructs experience, then learn about brain cells, messages, the body and senses. 6 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

Meet your brain
Meet the researchers, then learn about brain cells, messages, the body and senses.
WEEK 2How your brain predicts

Understand expectations, past experience and the predictions behind familiar choices. 4 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

Spot the pattern
Past experience
What you expect
Familiar choices
↳ New experiences help you learn a different pattern.
WEEK 3Experience shapes reality

Follow one gym experience through sensory signals, learned concepts, emotion and context. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

Experience shapes reality
Follow one gym experience through sensory signals, learned concepts, emotion and context.
WEEK 4Work with your energy

Understand how sleep, stress and bodily needs influence your choices. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

Plan for the energy you have
Sleep Stress Recovery
Your energy today
A manageable next step
WEEK 5The prediction-action loop

Explore the free-energy principle: infer what is happening, weigh the evidence and act to learn or meet a need. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

The prediction-action loop
Explore the free-energy principle: infer what is happening, weigh the evidence and act to learn or meet a need.
WEEK 6Build a rhythm that sticks

Use small actions and repetition to practise a helpful routine. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

Small actions, repeated
Start small
Repeat it
Build a rhythm
WEEK 7What actually is learning?

Follow the model update: expectation, surprising evidence, confidence weighting and a changed prediction next time. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

What actually is learning?
Follow the model update: expectation, surprising evidence, confidence weighting and a changed prediction next time.
WEEK 8Take the fight out of food

Understand cravings and the context around eating without judging yourself. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

Get curious about a craving
Notice the craving
Pause
Check the need
Hunger? Stress? Tiredness? Notice what is happening.
WEEK 9Make progress easier to repeat

Shape routines, surroundings and support around the choices you want to repeat. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

Make the next workout easier
More steps
Find your gear
Then decide what to do
Less friction
Gear ready. Plan ready.
Take the next step
WEEK 10Build your sustainable way forward

Bring energy, protein, carbohydrates and fats together in a flexible meal. 5 short lessons, each followed by a quiz.

Bring your plan together
Training
Food
Comeback plan
A routine you can return to
How learning becomes change

Read it. Check it. Keep learning.

Learn

Short lessons help you recognise the effects of past experience, energy, surroundings and repetition on everyday choices.

Quiz

Answer the quiz after each lesson to check your understanding. Revisit the explanation and retry when needed.

Continue

Your completed lessons stay saved. Continue through the next topic at your own pace.

About the course.

Is the weekly Zoom session a workout?

Balance Learn includes a 45-minute Zoom teaching lesson each week. If you are starting exercise or need supervision, Zoom Personal Training replaces that lesson with a 45-minute supervised workout at the same starting price and minimum term.

How do I access Learn?

Choose the Balance Learn starting package at AUD $125/week plus $120 upfront, with a ten-week minimum total of $1,370 including GST. The course is also included in the Zoom Personal Training starting package. Existing members keep their agreed access.

What is the aim?

To understand your habits and build practical skills for long-term lifestyle change. You apply the lessons to real situations, rather than relying on a perfect week or a rigid plan.

Learning with support

Find your way to start.

Compare live teaching, supervised Zoom workouts and Programming & Nutrition. Each starting package includes a meal plan, a workout program updated weekly and a weekly voice-note check-in inside Balance.

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