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THE SEARCH CONTINUES

IN 2025

Search4Hurt will return to screens across Australia, NZ, Europe and Asia for a 5th season in 2025.

Hosted by former Biggest Loser coach Steve ‘Commando’ Willis, we’ll again be out to find the fittest everyday athletes, challenging them with the most epic training, events and experiences, all in search of the maximum limits of human potential.

Season 5 (to be shot between March – November 2025) will air from December 2025, with 12 episodes, including HurtCamps in both Australia and NZ, to determine Team Australia (2 guys + 2 gals) and Team NZ (2 guys + 2 gals), who’ll take on a range of training and events in amazing locations, before ultimately battling it out at a Spartan Trifecta Weekend in Fiji!

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Dec 2025 > Mar 2026

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Season 5

Partnership Opportunities

Opportunities are available now to align your brand as a partner of Season 5 of Search4Hurt, where we work together with you and your team to map out the most effective and impactful partnership and integration of your brand as part of the Search4Hurt family.

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Brand + Product Exposure

Exposure and integration of your brand and product/s or services with a relevant and highly engaged health and fitness focused audience, both on the TV show throughout the series, and also through our other Search4Hurt blended media channels including website, social media (110,000+ followers), email database (60,000+ subscribers), podcast, and online magazine.

Strategically planned and professionally produced bespoke branded content, both in the TV show throughout the series, and through our other Search4Hurt blended media channels (website, social media, email database, podcast, online mag, etc.), all packaged up and provided for your own use through your own channels.

Activate and leverage your Search4Hurt partnership with some of the biggest mass participation events happening across Australia and NZ. Throughout the series, our Search4Hurt athletes will participate in some big events including HYROX, Spartan Race, and AusFitness Expo, whilst you’ll also have exclusive access to activate at our own events that will be part of Search4Hurt Season 5.

Our Search4Hurt partners get exclusive access to corporate wellness sessions, run by our Search4Hurt talent. A unique partnership benefit, aimed at positively engaging your team, so they’re not only getting fit and healthy, but also feel a direct link with the partnership and the show.

Priority access to our own brand and marketing agency team (Brandshape), and our studio facilities, including professional photography, videography and podcast studios, a gym and recovery centre, a studio kitchen, hot desks / shared workspaces and meeting rooms, all available to you as a Search4Hurt partner.

Leverage a partnership with Search4Hurt to drive new business, sales and growth for your brand with a highly engaged and invested health and fitness focused audience.

THE SEARCH

So far

The search so far has been all kinds of epic. Since 2013, we’ve traveled the world, trained with some of the most amazing athletes and teams, competed in some of the toughest events in unbelievable locations, and uncovered some of the fittest humans alive, but nothing yet compares to what we have planned for Season 5!

A top-line overview of the shoot schedule and episode plan for Season 5 of Search4Hurt, including a heap of amazing events, locations and experiences across Australia, NZ, and Fiji.

We shoot the entire show ourselves, with our own in-house Brandshape production team, so we control what appears on TV! We don’t make infomercials, but we work strategically and creatively with our Search4Hurt partners to integrate brand and product exposure and key messaging into the series, capturing and creating amazing content for partners that not only appears in the show, but can also be packaged up and provided to partners for use across their own channels.

Partnership with Search4Hurt offers a unique opportunity to get your brand in the thick of the action, whilst being able to work directly with the production team to craft amazing content together!

Season 5

Shoot Schedule

Fri 21 Mar
HurtCamp AU - Day 1: Fitness Combine incl. DEKA Strong Event
Hunter Sports Centre - Newcastle, NSW Australia
 
32 participants (selected from a series of challenges and online qualifiers) will take part in a full day fitness combine, including a mix of sports science testing (in conjunction with The University of Newcastle, iPerform Lab, and VALD Performance), a DEKA Strong event, endurance style events for time out on the athletics track, and a range of media testing (including opportunities for partners to capture content with the athletes). At the end of the day, we will do a live announcement of the 16 athletes (8 males + 8 females) who will progress through to Day 2 of HurtCamp. For the other 16 athletes, their search ends here.

This content will feature in Episode 1.

Sat 22 Mar
HurtCamp AU - Day 2: Spartan Race (Day) + Hurricane Heat 'Commando SAS Style' (Night)
Rydges Resort - Hunter Valley, NSW Australia
 
During the day, the 16 athletes who have progressed through to Day 2 of HurtCamp will take on a Spartan Race obstacle course event, but we'll also be surprising our HurtCampers with some extra challenges, and a bit more hurt than up to 10,000 other participants in this event. 8 of the 16 HurtCampers will be eliminated here, whilst the fastest 4 males and fastest 4 females will progress to the next stage of HurtCamp, which they won't have to wait long for, as we'll be sending them straight on to the 12hr Hurricane Heat in the evening with our host 'Commando Steve' adding an SAS style twist for these 8 remaining HurtCamp athletes. This event will decide our final 2 male and final 2 female athletes, who will become Team Search4Hurt Australia for Season 5! 
 
This content will feature in Episode 2.
Thu 3 Apr
Mount Hotham Training Camp
Mount Hotham, VIC Australia
 
The 4 athletes (2 guys + 2 gals) representing Team Search4Hurt Australia for Season 5 will come back together for the first time here at Mount Hotham in Victoria for training camp that will be designed to prepare them for the challenges and events they are about to embark on.
 
This content will feature in Episode 3.
Fri 4 - Sun 6 Apr
3-Day Camp incl. Highlander (Adventure of a Lifetime) Event
Victorian Alps, VIC Australia
Team Search4Hurt will set up camp for 3-days in the scenic Victorian Alps, where they will take part in the Highlander (Adventure of a Lifetime) event - the first time that this amazing global trekking event will be held in Australia.
 
This content will feature in Episode 3.
Sat 10 May
Hybrid Games Event - Margaret River Ultra Marathon
Margaret River, WA Australia
 
Our Hybrid Games episodes were the most watched in Season 4. It is the only real series of tests globally that are designed to test true hybrid athletic performance. This year, we will spend more time in WA with 2 great endurance events to bookend a week of strength tests for our athletes. The first test is the Margaret River Ultra Marathon, an 80km trail ultra marathon in one of Australia's most stunning locations.

This content will feature in Episode 4.
Tue 13 - Thu 15 May
Hybrid Games Events - 3 Events / 3 Days
Perth, WA Australia
 
This 3-day mid-week session will see a move to the city, and a series of strength events run each evening. We'll be working with Kinta, Power to Empower, and Ninja Academy, to deliver a series of back to back events, including Strongman, Ninja Warrior, and Powerlifting.

This content will feature in Episode 4.
Sat 17 May
Hybrid Games Event - Seven Gravel Bike Race
Nannup, WA Australia
 
After the series of strength tests, it's time to head south again, but this time we'll be heading inland to the mountains, taking on the 125km UCI Gravel Bike event called Seven. Gravel Bike Racing is another one of these up-and-coming mass participant events that currently gets no mainstream media coverage, so we are looking forward to doing what we do, and giving them some love and exposure / coverage!

This content will feature in Episode 5.
Sat 21 Jun
Solstice Event - The Shortest Day / Longest Night
Central Coast, NSW Australia
 
This is the first of our own events in this season. It's based around the Winter Solstice - the shortest day of the year, which for the Search4Hurt amongst us... means the longest night! The event goes from sunset to sunrise, where our Team Search4Hurt athletes will have to run (relay style) between gyms across the NSW Cenral Coast, complete a heap of bench presses at each gym, before running on to the next gym for even more bench pressing, and so on. The winners will be the team who travels the furthest and does the most bench presses over the 14+ hours of the longest night.

This content will feature in Episode 6.
Fri 4 - Sun 6 Jul
HYROX Trifecta Event (3 Days)
International Convention Centre (ICC) - Sydney, NSW Australia

Sydney HYROX will deliver 3 events that our Team Search4Hurt athletes will take part in over a long weekend, competing as individuals (unweighted), before forming teams and taking on the mens pairs and mixed pairs events (weighted). HYROX is one of the hottest things both here locally in Australia, and also globally, right now, attracting thousands of competitors and spectators, offering a heap of additional exposure and engagement for our Search4Hurt partners, as Team Search4Hurt becomes the centre of attention at these HYROX events!
 
This content will feature in Episode 7.
Sat 9 - Sun 10 Aug
8848 Everesting Event (2 Days)
Regional VIC Australia
 
Everesting is a challenge where people aim to hit 8848 metres of vertical gain (the height of Mt Everest). We've documented people doing it on bikes before, but never on foot. So... this will be another of our own events, where our Team Search4Hurt athletes will take on the King of the Hill backyard ultra course in regional Victoria, running up to the peak of the notorious hill, before being transported back down to basecamp to refuel, and then go again! The winner will be the one who hits 8848 of vertical the quickest.
 
This content will feature in Episode 8.
Fri 19 - Sun 21 Sep
Hurtathlon: AusFitness Expo (3 Days)
International Convention Centre - Sydney, NSW Australia
 
The AusFitness Expo is a great opportunity to activate Search4Hurt (and our partners) in front of our shared target demographic, before Season 5 goes to air in December. We took part in this Expo in 2024 (after the show was already on air), using it as the first chance for athletes to qualify for Season 5, through a collaboration with HYROX - scoring live crosses on The Today Show and other wide reaching media outlets. Actually including our involvement and activation at this AusFitness Expo on air in Season 2025 will be something else! Our Team Search4Hurt athletes will take on a different 'erg' in each day of this 3-day event, in a triathlon format, where they'll be tasked with getting as many calories on each other over a 6 hour window each day. Day 1 will be the row erg, Day 2 a bike erg, and Day 3 a run erg.
 
This content will feature in Episode 9.
Tue 11 - Wed 12 Nov
HurtCamp NZ (2 Days)
Auckland NZ
 
For the first time in Search4Hurt history, Season 5 will feature a dedicated Team Search4Hurt NZ team of 2 x Kiwi males + 2 x Kiwi females, who'll be selected from this HurtCamp NZ, shot over 2-days in Auckland. The Kiwis have always been big supporters of Search4Hurt, with large viewership numbers of previous seasons being broadcast across NZ through SkyNZ and Outdoor Channel, so now they'll have the opportunity to actually be involved and to cheer on their own NZ team!
 
This content will feature in Episode 10.
Thu 13 - Sun 16 Nov
Spartan Race APAC Championship Trifecta Finale (4 days)
Nadi, Fiji
 
Search4Hurt Team AU and Team NZ will battle it out in Fiji at the Spartan Race APAC Championship trifecta event, which will make up the 2 final episodes of Search4Hurt Season 5, determining and crowing our winning country and our final athlete rankings for the season, rounding out what will be an absolute EPIC Season 5 of Search4Hurt! 
 
This content will feature in Episodes 11 & 12.

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