Women's Health Australia

Smashing It

As the music blared, Lyndal Rogers swung the metal bar until it collided with the washing machine. Dripping in sweat, she soaked in the adrenalin rush before going back for more. After all, the 37-year-old radio announcer wasn’t demolishing her own appliance. This one was part of a break room – and she was there to smash the contents up.

“It was amazing – I felt really uplifted afterwards,” recalls Lyndal, who visited SmashLAB in Wollongong, NSW, with two girlfriends during a

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