Uncut Fitness is a strength and fitness coaching gym on Macandrew Road in South Dunedin, built around a clear mission: helping busy Dunedin locals improve how they look, move and feel through structured training, expert coaching and a supportive community. It is less a rows-of-machines fitness centre and more a coached environment — every member trains to a plan, progress is measured, and the programming targets real-world strength, fitness and habits that carry into everyday life.
The gym is led by coach Jeff Leckie, who has worked in the health and fitness industry since 2004, with a competitive background spanning track and field, cross-country running, CrossFit, Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting. In 2012 he opened one of New Zealand's first CrossFit gyms, CrossFit Uncut, and later brought that experience to Uncut Fitness. His formal credentials include diplomas in sporting performance, personal training and physical conditioning, plus certifications in boxing, CrossFit and nutrition, and he is currently pursuing a Master's in Applied Science on concurrent training.
Training options span private one-on-one coaching, semi-private sessions for partners or small groups of up to four, coach-led group strength and conditioning classes, and online programming with distance support for those outside Dunedin. Six values shape everything: technique, consistency, functional training, variation, intensity and results.
What sets Uncut Fitness apart is how seriously it takes measurement. Every 12 weeks, members go through a five-pillar assessment including an Evolt 360 body composition scan (bio age, body fat, lean muscle mass and more), aerobic time trials, strength tests, movement skill checks and functional conditioning benchmarks. The gym offers a free 45-minute intro session for anyone ready to start.
Uncut Fitness sits on Macandrew Road in South Dunedin, and its promise is spelled out plainly: to help busy Dunedin locals transform the way they look, move and feel. Rather than a self-serve gym full of equipment and guesswork, it is a coached environment where every member trains to a structured plan, progress is tracked, and the goal is real-world strength and fitness that carries over into everyday life. The team frames everything around three outcomes — how you look, how you move and how you feel — and builds training, nutrition guidance and habit coaching around all three.
At the heart of the gym is coach Jeff Leckie — strength and fitness coach, gym manager, father of two and self-described hybrid athlete. His involvement in the industry began professionally in 2004, with a competitive athletic career stretching back to the late 1990s across track and field, cross-country running, CrossFit, Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting — a résumé that includes medals, records and national competition victories. He started young, persuading his mother to let him join a gym at 16, rose to senior trainer at Les Mills, and in 2012 opened one of New Zealand's first CrossFit gyms, CrossFit Uncut. After navigating the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic, he emerged with renewed focus and an evolved approach, which became today's Uncut Fitness.
His credentials run deep: a diploma in sporting performance and personal training, a graduate diploma and postgraduate diploma in physical conditioning, certifications in boxing, CrossFit and nutrition, and a Master's in Applied Science in progress, examining the effects of concurrent training on strength and endurance in recreational athletes. Tens of thousands of coaching hours sit behind that study, and he is a well-known figure in Dunedin's fitness community, having mentored many of the city's high-achieving weightlifting and CrossFit athletes from their earliest foundations.
Uncut Fitness offers training in whatever format suits your life. Private training delivers fully personalised one-on-one coaching — ideal if you want focused attention, accountability and faster progress, whether you're new to training, returning from injury or chasing specific results. Semi-private sessions give you a more personal experience with shared motivation: train two-on-one with a partner, or up to four-on-one with co-workers, friends or family.
Group sessions are the community heartbeat. They follow a detailed, mapped programming plan, with weekly strength focuses rotating through upper-body push and pull, legs and core, hypertrophy muscle-building days and Olympic lifting — each paired with a daily cardio component. Twice a week come the conditioning-only "sweat days", built to develop your aerobic engine and endurance and leave you satisfied with what you've achieved. Everything is framed by six values: technique, consistency, functional training, variation, intensity and results, with group workouts run as challenging HIIT-style sessions tailored to each individual's fitness level.
For those outside Dunedin, online programming and distance support include pre-set speciality or individualised workout programs, nutrition plans and habit-building routines, with regular check-ins to keep you on track.
A defining feature of the gym is its obsession with tracking. Every 12 weeks, members go through a five-pillar assessment: Evolt 360 body scanner results (bio age, wellness score, body fat percentage, lean muscle mass and muscle limb balancing), achievable aerobic time trials, strength tests using compound barbell and callisthenics exercises, movement skill progress covering technique, mobility and coordination, and functional fitness metcon tests that measure work capacity.
The Evolt 360 scanner is a particular point of pride — a non-invasive, high-tech body composition scan that measures your biological age and more than 40 health metrics in under 60 seconds. Coaches use all this data to judge whether the programming is working, reinforce accountability and set realistic future goals. If the numbers don't move the way you hoped, they're in your corner with strategies and support rather than letting you drift.
The atmosphere is deliberately team-like: a positive environment of like-minded people, where the gym aims to feel like a second home and each session is the best hour of your day. The broader pitch is longevity — by improving how you look, move and feel, you increase not just your lifespan but your healthspan, adding what the team calls "10 quality years" so you can spend more time with family and doing what you enjoy.
Getting started is simple: book the free 45-minute intro session, meet the coach, and begin building strength, fitness and healthy habits with a plan built for you.