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# PURE FITNESS SG & PURE YOGA SG — INSTAGRAM PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
### March 2026 | Senior Strategy Assessment
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## BENCHMARK CONTEXT
Benchmarks from over 80 fitness brands reveal Instagram averages of 0.55% engagement.
Both PURE accounts are using a reach-based ER formula (likes+comments+saves+shares/reach), which yields inherently higher percentages than follower-based calculations. Against the dataset's own benchmark of **1.22%**, PURE Fitness sits at **2.10% (+71.8%)** and PURE Yoga at **2.31% (+89.5%)** — both comfortably outperforming.
A good Instagram engagement rate is between 1% and 5%; anything below 1% indicates low resonance and weak interaction.
Both accounts are in healthy territory, but neither is approaching the 4%+ threshold that would signal top-tier performance. The ceiling is real.
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## 1. WHAT IS WORKING — PURE FITNESS
- **Real-person storytelling delivers the account's peak performance.** The top-performing post (ER: 6.53%, reach: 6,096) is a Reel of Elly Morgan — a named, credentialed athlete with a 15-race HYROX track record and nine podiums. The #4 post (ER: 3.42%, reach: 4,469) features Toure, a named Senior PT, speaking directly to camera. Both outperform the account average of 2.10% by 3x or more. Named humans beat brand messaging every time.
- **Video is carrying the account and doing so at scale.** 26 of 30 posts are VIDEO, averaging ER 2.11% and avg reach 3,444 — essentially matching the account average.
Reels changed everything in 2023–2024 as Instagram shifted resources to compete with TikTok; creators who pivoted to Reels saw engagement rates jump 45–65% in many cases.
PURE Fitness has correctly built its strategy on video-first.
- **Wednesday and Friday afternoon is a proven sweet spot.** The top 5 posts are concentrated on Friday (2 posts) and Wednesday (2 posts), all in the Afternoon (12–17h) slot — consistent with the data showing Wednesday (ER: 2.61%) and Friday (ER: 2.43%) as the top-2 days. This pattern is internally consistent and algorithmically validated.
- **Long captions (300+ chars) measurably outperform short ones.** Posts with long captions average ER 2.24% vs. 1.86% for short (<100 chars) and 1.91% for medium. The brand is already tilting toward long captions (17 of 30 posts) and is being rewarded for it — substantive, story-led copy drives deeper engagement with the premium audience.
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## 2. WHAT IS NOT WORKING — PURE FITNESS
- **HYROX-branded posts are cannibalizing themselves with poor execution.** Three of the bottom 5 posts are HYROX content — #PureXHyrox, HYROX TURF, HYROX FUZE — yet the top post is also HYROX. The problem is clear: generic "here's what HYROX is" explainer Reels (ER: 0.87%, 0.82%, 0.71%) fail; personal HYROX athlete stories succeed.
HYROX's growth in Singapore over the last two years has been nothing short of explosive — the AIA HYROX Open Asian Championships 2025 in June drew a record of more than 12,000 fitness enthusiasts over two days.
PURE is wasting an enormous cultural tailwind by posting programme descriptions rather than human moments.
- **Monday and Saturday are dead zones — but PURE keeps posting there.** Monday averages ER 1.08% and Saturday 0.98%, compared to Wednesday's 2.61%. Yet 6 of 30 posts (20%) are on these two worst-performing days, including three of the five lowest-performing posts. This is a scheduling problem that can be fixed in one week.
- **IMAGE format is catastrophically underperforming.** The single IMAGE post in the sample achieved ER 0.87% (reach: 1,033) — less than half the account average of 2.10% and the lowest reach of any post.
Static images continue to decline, both in engagement (17% YoY decrease) and posting volume, reflecting reduced impact and prioritization.
PURE should retire standalone image posts for everything except Stories.
- **Hashtag strategy is negligible and inconsistent.** The account averages just 1 hashtag per post. The top 5 posts use 0–3 tags; the brand's most-used tag #purefitnesssingapore appears only 6 times in 30 posts. There is no consistent branded hashtag framework.
HYROX Singapore's own Instagram account has 49K followers
, yet PURE is barely using HYROX community hashtags to tap into that existing Singapore audience who are actively searching for training content.
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## 3. WHAT IS WORKING — PURE YOGA
- **The 20th Anniversary campaign is a masterclass in milestone-driven content.** Four of the five top-performing posts (ERs: 7.09%, 6.10%, 5.00%, 3.77%) are all variations of the PURE Yoga 20th Anniversary Reel series.
Wellness brands are building loyalty through saves and thoughtful content — the recommendation is to lean into educational and lifestyle content pillars that audiences want to revisit and share.
This campaign worked because it combined community emotion (a 20-year milestone), urgency (limited 2-hour workshops), and repeated exposure through a campaign series.
- **Monday and Wednesday are the account's power days.** Monday averages ER 3.42% (7 posts) and Wednesday 2.91% (5 posts) — both well above the account average of 2.31%. The top post (ER: 7.09%) was posted on Wednesday evening. PURE Yoga has intuitively landed on a strong posting rhythm for its audience, with the community most receptive mid-week.
- **Video and Carousel formats dramatically outperform static images.** VIDEO averages ER 2.84% and CAROUSEL averages ER 2.83% — both more than double the IMAGE average of 1.26%. The account uses VIDEO for 18 of 30 posts and the 20th anniversary campaign used zero hashtags while still achieving the highest ERs on the account. Proof that compelling content > tactical hashtag padding.
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## 4. WHAT IS NOT WORKING — PURE YOGA
- **Static IMAGE posts are actively dragging the account's average down.** 10 of 30 posts (33%) are images, averaging ER 1.26% — nearly half the account average of 2.31%. All five of the bottom-performing posts are either images (4 out of 5) or a poorly-executed event Reel. The bottom two posts are images posted on Tuesday mornings — combining the worst format with the worst day. This is a double failure that is entirely avoidable.
- **Tuesday morning is the account's graveyard slot and is used repeatedly.** Tuesday averages ER 1.25% (the lowest day), and Morning (6–12h) averages 1.63% (the lowest time slot). Two of the five bottom posts are Tuesday morning images. Despite this pattern, the account posts in this slot repeatedly — there is no evidence of timing optimization.
- **Hashtag strategy is unfocused and brand-diluting.** PURE Yoga uses an average of 2 tags per post, but the hashtag mix includes 30 unique tags across 30 posts — with 22 of those tags used only once. Scattered tags like #lijiang, #dali, #yunnan (1 use each, for a retreat post) contribute zero ongoing community-building. Compare this to the zero-hashtag top posts — the account hasn't determined whether hashtags help or hurt, so it's using them randomly.
- **Non-milestone community content is underperforming.** The members' appreciation night Reel (ER: 0.88%, reach: 3,085) and workshop image posts (ERs: 0.93%, 0.91%) show that transactional or event-promotion content without a human story or emotional hook simply does not land. The brand knows how to generate emotion (20th anniversary campaign), but has not systematized that insight across all content types.
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## 5. RECOMMENDATIONS — PURE FITNESS
1. **Build a "HYROX Humans" series — immediately.** The Elly Morgan post at 6.53% ER proves the formula. Every HYROX post should feature one named member or trainer: their race count, best time, most embarrassing HYROX moment.
The two-day AIA Hyrox Open Asian Championships in June 2025 drew almost 25,000 participants and spectators, of which 12,840 were racers
— these are real people in the PURE community. Stop posting HYROX class descriptions. Start posting HYROX member faces.
2. **Eliminate Monday and Saturday posting immediately.** Shift those 6 posts to Wed/Thu/Fri. The data is unambiguous: Mon = 1.08% ER, Sat = 0.98% ER vs. Thu = 2.73%, Wed = 2.61%, Fri = 2.43%. This is a zero-cost change that will lift the account average by an estimated 0.2–0.3% in one cycle.
3. **Launch a Carousel strategy — this is the biggest untapped format.** Only 3 Carousels in 30 posts (10%), yet they average ER 2.40% and reach 4,198 — the highest reach of any format.
Carousels remain the most effective format, showing the strongest engagement resilience year over year.
A "Trainer Tips" or "Train Like Elly" multi-slide Carousel should go live this week.
4. **Retire standalone IMAGE posts.** The one image in the sample hit ER 0.87% with reach of only 1,033 — less than a third of the video average reach of 3,444.
Static images continue to decline both in engagement and posting volume.
All promotional content should be converted to Reels (15–30 seconds) or Carousels. Images belong in Stories only.
5. **Introduce the "Train to Lift" women's programme as a content pillar, not a one-off.** Post #2 (ER: 3.67%) is the Train to Lift Carousel — evidence that targeted women's programming content resonates.
Female participation is on the rise in Southeast Asian fitness markets, signaling a significant growth opportunity.
This deserves a 4–6 week content arc, not a single post.
6. **Build a minimalist but consistent hashtag stack of 5–7 tags per post.** Current avg of 1 hashtag is leaving community reach on the table. Core stack suggestion: #PureFitnessSingapore + #HYROXSG + #PurexHYROX + 1 class-specific tag (e.g., #PilatesSingapore) + 1 broader tag (e.g., #FitnessSingapore).
HYROX offers social media-ready content and a supportive atmosphere
— use the community's existing hashtag infrastructure.
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## 6. RECOMMENDATIONS — PURE YOGA
1. **Replicate the anniversary campaign formula for every major programme launch.** The 20th anniversary series generated 4 of the top 5 posts with zero hashtags — proof that campaign-series thinking beats single-post tactics. The next campaign hook already exists: the Teacher Training programmes, the Yunnan retreat, the 2-hour specialty workshops. Build each as a 3–4 part Reel series with a consistent visual theme and countdown hook.
2. **Stop posting on Tuesday mornings — permanently.** Tuesday ER = 1.25%, Morning ER = 1.63%. Two of the five worst posts are Tue morning images. Redistribute to Monday evening (ER 3.42% day average) or Wednesday afternoon. This is a scheduling fix that can be implemented this week.
3. **Convert all IMAGE workshop/class promotion posts to short Reels or Carousels.** 4 of the 5 bottom posts are images.
Carousels are driving the most saves and views across all brand sizes.
A workshop announcement in Carousel format — slide 1: instructor face + hook, slide 2–4: what you'll learn, slide 5: date/CTA — will outperform a static image by 2x based on the account's own ER gap between formats (2.83% Carousel vs. 1.26% Image).
4. **Consolidate the hashtag strategy into a consistent 5-tag brand stack.** The current 30-tag spray (22 used once only) creates no community compounding effect. Simplify to: #PureYogaSingapore + #YogaSingapore + one workshop-specific tag + one style tag (e.g., #IyengarYoga or #HotYoga) + #NothingLikePure.
Platforms like TikTok and Instagram are amplifying niche yoga styles, turning these practices into moments of personal empowerment.
Niche style tags (#IyengarYogaSingapore, #PilatesForStrength) should be used consistently to build searchable authority.
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## 7. PRIORITY ACTIONS
### Ranked by Expected Impact — All Executable Within 1 Week
**#1 — SHIFT ALL POSTING AWAY FROM MONDAY & SATURDAY (Both Accounts)**
Zero cost. PURE Fitness loses 1.08%/0.98% ER slots; PURE Yoga loses 1.25% (Tuesday). Shift to Wed/Thu/Fri (Fitness) and Mon/Wed (Yoga). Impact: immediate lift in account average ER.
**#2 — PRODUCE ONE "HUMAN STORY" REEL FOR EACH ACCOUNT**
PURE Fitness: film a HYROX member (existing community —
HYROX's growth in Singapore has been explosive, with 12,000+ attendees at the June 2025 Asian Championships
) sharing their before/after training story in 30–45 seconds. PURE Yoga: film a teacher explaining why they've stayed at PURE for X years. This format has already hit 6.53% and 7.09% ER respectively — the highest on both accounts.
**#3 — LAUNCH ONE CAROUSEL POST ON PURE FITNESS (This Week)**
Carousels average 4,198 reach vs. 3,444 for videos — the highest reach format on the account with only 3 uses in 30 posts. Topic: "5 Things We Wish We Knew Before Our First HYROX Race" (sourced from member voices). Post on Friday afternoon.
Carousels perform well because of functionality and ease of consumption; physically swiping gives carousels more stickiness.
**#4 — RETIRE ALL STANDALONE IMAGE POSTS (Both Accounts)**
PURE Fitness image post: ER 0.87%, reach 1,033. PURE Yoga image posts: 4 of 5 bottom posts. Any upcoming image-format posts should be re-shot as 15-second Reels (trainer speaking to camera works) or reformatted as Carousels. Set this as an internal policy this week.
**#5 — IMPLEMENT 5-TAG HASHTAG STACK ACROSS ALL NEW POSTS (Both Accounts)**
PURE Fitness averages 1 tag/post; PURE Yoga's tags are scattered across 30 unique tags with no repetition pattern. Establish consistent brand stacks (as detailed in Recommendations 6 and 4 above) and brief the content team this week. Low effort, compounding return.
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## 8. 3-WORD VERDICT — FITNESS
**HYROX GOLD UNTAPPED**
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## 9. 3-WORD VERDICT — YOGA
**MILESTONE MAGIC, FORMAT CHAOS**
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## 10. TRENDING OPPORTUNITIES
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### FITNESS / GYM
**Trend Name:** HYROX Community Race-Training Content
**What's Happening:**
HYROX's growth in Singapore over the last two years has been nothing short of explosive — the AIA HYROX Open Asian Championships 2025 in June drew a record of more than 12,000 fitness enthusiasts over two days.
Participation grew from 3,500 at the first Singapore race in October 2023 to 12,840 racers in June 2025.
The event attracted 22,631 participants and spectators including close to 10,400 athletes from Asia and beyond.
Instagram and TikTok are flooded with race-day content tagged #hyroxsg and #hyroxsingapore from individual athletes — but no Singapore gym is owning the "training community" content angle consistently.
**PURE Content Play:** Post a 45-second Reel this week: "Inside a PURE HYROX Training Session — 6 weeks out from race day." Film an actual Tuesday/Thursday class at PURE. Show real members sweating on sled pushes and wall balls. End with the next intake date. Caption: "12,000 Singaporeans raced HYROX in 2025. Here's how they trained." Tag: #HYROXSG #PurexHYROX.
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### YOGA
**Trend Name:** 20th Anniversary / Legacy Community Campaigns
**What's Happening:** PURE Yoga's own data proves this: the 20th anniversary Reel series generated ERs of 7.09%, 6.10%, 5.00%, and 3.77% — the four highest posts on the account.
Saves signal value; Instagram posts earn high save counts showing viewers want to return to health and wellness content.
Milestone and community-identity content triggers saves and shares because it resonates emotionally — it's not about the practice, it's about belonging.
**PURE Content Play:** Launch a "20 Teachers, 20 Stories" Reel series this week. Film one teacher per week for 20 weeks. Format: 30-second vertical Reel, teacher answers "What has teaching at PURE for [X] years taught you about yourself?" Zero hashtags, just #PureYogaSingapore. One post per Monday evening. This directly replicates what already hit 7.09% ER.
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### PILATES
**Trend Name:** Classical Mat Pilates Revival
**What's Happening:**
Mat Pilates is making a comeback as people seek effective, equipment-free workouts that can be done anywhere — this method is also enjoying considerable hype, especially on social media like Instagram and TikTok. Unlike its reformer counterpart, mat-based Pilates relies on bodyweight and small props.
PURE Singapore is already cited as a top Pilates destination in Singapore, favoured for convenience and thoughtful class design, offering multiple levels from Intro to Signature Plus.
Critically, PURE Fitness's #3 post (ER: 3.49%) is a Classical Mat Pilates class announcement — evidence the audience is already hungry for this content.
**PURE Content Play:** Post a 30-second Reel this week: "What's the difference between Mat Pilates and Reformer Pilates?" Film a PURE trainer demonstrating 2–3 moves of each, side by side. This is educational, saveable content. Add a CTA: "Our Classical Mat Pilates class is now on the schedule — link in bio." Tags: #ClassicalPilates #PurePilatesSingapore #PilatesSingapore.
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### WELLNESS / RECOVERY
**Trend Name:** Contrast Therapy (Hot/Cold) as a Social Ritual
**What's Happening:**
Cold plunges have officially gone from niche athlete ritual to mainstream wellness hobby in Singapore — whether chasing faster muscle recovery, better sleep, mental resilience, or aesthetic pics for the 'Gram, ice baths are now easier than ever to try.
New venues like The Ice Bath Club (
12K Instagram followers, branding themselves as "Asia's fastest-growing daily recovery club"
), REVA Social Wellness, and Nowhere Baths at Dempsey Hill have opened in 2025.
Facilities offering physiotherapy, massage therapy, and dedicated recovery zones report 32% higher member lifetime value, while ice bath and sauna utilization correlates with 25% reduced member churn rates.
**PURE Content Play:** Post a Carousel this week: "How PURE members recover after a HYROX training week." Slide 1: trainer post-session. Slides 2–4: PURE's own recovery options (stretching zones, cool-down classes, mobility work). Slide 5: "Recovery is part of the programme." No need to own an ice bath — own the recovery mindset. Tags: #RecoverySingapore #FitnessRecovery #PureFitnessSingapore.
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### MINDFULNESS
**Trend Name:** Breathwork Integration in Yoga Practice
**What's Happening:**
Wellness seekers in Singapore are looking beyond standard yoga routines, craving classes that seamlessly blend breathwork, mobility, and mindful pacing — mindful movement straddles yoga, mobility drills, and meditative breath, creating holistic workouts for body and brain.
As the world seeks antidotes to stress and digital overwhelm, the power of mindful breathing is gaining mainstream momentum — the Global Wellness Institute identifies key 2025 trends where breath is being integrated into daily life to influence the nervous system and improve sleep, performance, and emotional health.
Singapore's professional demographic is particularly susceptible to burnout, making breathwork-led yoga a high-relevance content angle.
**PURE Content Play:** Post a 30-second Reel this week on PURE Yoga: "3 breaths your yoga teacher wants you to know before your next class." Film a PURE teacher demonstrating Ujjayi, box breathing, and one pranayama technique — each named, each with a one-line benefit (e.g., "Ujjayi: slows your nervous system in under 60 seconds"). This is high-save content. Tags: #YogaSingapore #Breathwork #PureYogaSingapore.
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## 11. CROSS-CATEGORY OPPORTUNITY
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**THE TREND:**
The modern Singapore fitness consumer is increasingly seeking a comprehensive approach to health that encompasses physical fitness, mental well-being, and recovery — studios are expected to expand their offerings beyond traditional workouts to include services like yoga, meditation, and wellness coaching, positioning studios as potentially something more: comprehensive wellness centres.
In 2025, the world of fitness is undergoing a major shift — instead of sticking to just one type of exercise, more people are turning to hybrid workouts, a smart blend of yoga, strength training, and cardio — this approach doesn't just transform the body, it improves mental clarity, emotional balance, and long-term consistency.
Singapore's premium fitness consumer is no longer separating "train hard" from "move mindfully" — they want both, from one trusted brand, under one roof.
**THE PURE OPPORTUNITY:**
PURE is the only brand in Singapore operating both a premium gym (PURE Fitness) and a premium yoga studio (PURE Yoga) at scale, under the same parent brand, with overlapping CBD and Orchard locations. Virgin Active, Fitness First, and boutique operators like ALLY or Flex Studio each operate on one side of the strength-or-mindfulness divide. PURE alone can credibly say: "Train for your HYROX race on Monday. Recover with Yin Yoga on Thursday. Both in the same building. Both PURE." No competitor can make that statement without a partnership or acquisition. The cross-pollination content angle — showing a real member doing both — is unique to PURE and untapped in the current content output.
**CONTENT ANGLE:**
**Series Name:** "The PURE Week" — Format: Weekly Reel (60 seconds), posted every Monday, running for 8 weeks. Hook: "One member. One week. Fitness and yoga." Structure: 3-second member intro ("I'm Sarah, I do HYROX and Yin") → 20 seconds of PURE Fitness training moment → 20 seconds of PURE Yoga class moment → 10-second close: "This is what a PURE week looks like. Both studios. One membership." Post to both @PureFitnessSG and @PureYogaSG simultaneously with a shared hashtag #ThePUREWeek. The member featured alternates each week (male/female, age 28–45, different class types). Each post should tag the trainer from both studios featured. This is a cross-account content strategy no single-discipline competitor can replicate — and it directly addresses the #1 trend reshaping the Singapore wellness market.