PHOTO: Olympian Steph Prem splits her time between the city and the peninsula. Photo: Greg Briggs
A life split between coastal and metro. The hubbub of suburban day-to-day balanced with small town composure.
It’s a tonic for the soul, and a scenario that former winter Olympian Steph Prem has made her real estate reality.
Prem, a five-time national snowboarding champion and the only woman to represent Australia in the snowboard cross at the 2010 Vancouver Games, took an international view when it came to opening a health and fitness studio in Portsea on the Mornington Peninsula.
The personal trainer and clinical Pilates instructor is the founder of Studio PP, which operates fitness and wellbeing classes in South Yarra and on Collins Street in the city.
She opened the third studio in Portsea after a fact-finding trip to the US demonstrated a demand for beachside Hamptons health and wellness studios by visiting Manhattanites. She thought that would work well here.
And so her coastal studio opened on Point Nepean Road in Portsea, propelled by sea-changing clientele who flocked from the city to the Mornington Peninsula during the pandemic. Now Prem resides in Melbourne for half of the week and spends Friday to Monday in Portsea.
Prem says to live on the peninsula through all seasons is to experience a variation of pace. It’s very busy in summer but otherwise, it has a chilled, village vibe.
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