Michele

CURRENT

RPM training is done and done! Three programs down, five to go - KIDDING!! I think I'm done now ...

Now the work towards the video begins!

MH, 5.18

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AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE!
OY! OY! OY!

I'm a 26-year-old displaced Australian BodyPump and BodyCombat instructor, currently living in Orange County, California.

I started with BodyPump training in 2005, with no instructing experience, and added BodyCombat just recently in October 2007. I love these programs, being a part of the Les Mills global community, and I just love my classes and participants.

BodyPump was my first Les Mills love, and I have loved every second of participating in and instructing in this program. No matter the mood I'm in, getting up there and working with my classes to push themselves and have fun for that hour always cheers me up, and I love seeing their progress, enjoyment, and even grimaces! (In fact, I think I like those best. LOL!)

My friend Natalie and I are starting BodyCombat from scratch at Custom Bodies Fitness in Irvine, and it is so amazing seeing these members experience the program for the first time and just falling in love with it, and making great strides in their fitness and technique in such a short amount of time. I can't wait to see where they are in six months and how far I know they will come.

If you ever wanna stop by, I teach at Gold's Gym in Huntington Beach (BP on Monday nights at 6.30pm, and Thursday mornings at 5.15am) and Custom Bodies in Irvine (BodyCombat on Wednesdays at 6pm and Saturdays at 8.15am.)

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QUOTES

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.
- Unknown

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
- Hakeem Olajuwon

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.

The finish line isn't given, it is earned.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Tough times don't last but tough people do.

Just because your muscles start to protest doesn't mean you have to listen.

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

I find that the harder I work the more luck I have.

Free the mind. The body will follow.
- Les Mills NZ!

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it!
-Margaret Thatcher

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills

The more I train, the more I realize I have more speed in me.
- Leroy Burrell

It never gets easier, you just go faster.
- Greg LeMond

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
- Unknown

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
- Jim Rohn

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every day you have to test yourself. If you don't, it's a wasted day.
- Terry Butts, Marine Corps Male Athlete of the Year

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
- Don Kardong

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
- Vernon Law, Pitcher for the Pirates

We live by encouragement and die without it -- slowly, sadly, angrily.
- Celeste Holm

It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you're tired -- you quit when the gorilla is tired.
- Robert Strauss

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
- Wayne Gretzky

It only hurt once -- from beginning to end.
- James Counsilman, College Swimming Coach (after swimming the English Channel at the age of 58.)