The YMCA ‘Playnasium’ wins Victorian Premiers Design Award.

The YMCA ‘Playnasium’ is workout equipment that uses children’s weight as exercise weights, allowing parents to workout and power their children’s play.

One in four children in Australia are obese, a heartbreaking statistic that speaks volumes about modern life. For our client, the YMCA, we wanted to create a solution that tackled the problem in a way that felt joyful, connected and sustainable.

Case Study

Enter the YMCA Playnasium, an innovation in gym and play equipment that lets parents use their child’s body weight as exercise resistance. It’s a simple but powerful idea: parents get active, kids feel involved, and family time becomes fitness time.

Rather than adding another task to a busy parent’s to-do list, we made health a shared experience, something families could do together. The Playnasium isn’t just a product. It’s equipment that turns love, play and laughter into something that supports long-term wellbeing.

Because kids shouldn’t carry the weight of an unhealthy future and now, they don’t have to.