Elevate Plus (E+ Lyall Bay) is a Wellington gym founded by Pat Ho, a high-performance strength and conditioning coach with years of experience working in professional sport. Elevate Plus was built to bring that same standard of training to everyday people, with a focus on purpose-built training rather than exercise for its own sake.
Group training sits at the core of the Elevate Plus approach, built on the belief that training alongside others, pushing and showing up for each other, gets better results than training alone — the same principle used with elite athletes. Programmes are designed to suit people of any age, background or fitness level, with no prior experience required, just a willingness to put in the work.
Elevate Plus, based in Lyall Bay, Wellington, was founded by Pat Ho, a high-performance strength and conditioning coach with years of experience working in professional sport, who set out to bring that same standard of training to everyday people.
Elevate Plus is built around the philosophy that training should have a clear purpose — real strength work and proper conditioning, rather than exercise for the sake of it. Whether members are chasing performance, trying to move better, or simply want to get stronger alongside like-minded people, that's the focus of every session.
The gym's core group programmes are E+ Hybrid and E+ Strength. E+ Hybrid is a 45-minute session that improves overall physical capacity through a mix of strength, aerobic and anaerobic fitness, muscular endurance, stability, balance and movement quality — designed so members can get in, work hard, and get on with their day. E+ Strength focuses on the main lifting patterns of push, pull, squat and hinge, using progressive overload, supersets and time under tension in a smaller group setting, with every session logged in Wodify so members can track their progress across 12-week lifting blocks.
For those wanting more individualised support, Elevate Plus offers personal training — one-on-one time with a trainer built entirely around the client's goals and starting point. Every session is personalised, tracked and targeted, making it a good option for anyone chasing a specific goal, coming back from injury, or simply wanting more focused attention than group training allows.
For competitive athletes, Elevate Plus offers a dedicated Athlete Development programme, structured around increasing physical capacity, building robustness and improving performance so the body can handle the specific demands of the athlete's sport. It's a tracked, adjusted system built with intent, rather than generic gym work.
Elevate Plus's programmes are designed to suit people of any age, background or fitness level — no prior experience is needed, just a willingness to put in the work. Group training is central to the gym's approach, based on the idea that training alongside others produces better results than going it alone, a principle borrowed directly from elite sport.
Elevate Plus offers a 14-day trial for those wanting to experience the gym before committing to a membership.
Elevate Plus is located at 14 Kingsford Smith Street, Rongotai, Wellington. Enquiries and bookings can be made by email or through the contact form on the website.