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Thirty people crammed into the group fitness studio at the Aspen Club in Colorado for the new class launch. Lori, Casi, Heidi and I taught this wee community of devotees. Their arms and legs were intertwined in track 7 but everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It is hard to get enough oxygen at 8,500 feet! Lori has done a sensational job ...

Everyone at Les Mills loves talking about the programs (sort of an obsession really!)  So big thanks to our ‘bright ideas’ department (aka Marketing) for coming up with a way to get others talking about them too.  We’re now doing mini-interviews about each new class straight after DVD filming and putting them up on the website when the ...

What a fantastic experience to teach at the Chicago super-quarterly. It was the end of a huge day for all you teachers and there you were with bells on!!!Kim, Josef and I just loved it. And I never know where this gal is going to show up - Great to see you again Georgia - flashing those BODYFLOW® green toenails. Click Here to check out all the ...

Excitement levels are rising around Les Mills as we count down to filming the next round of masterclasses on Sunday, August 13. As always, the new releases are the climax of months of work by the Program Directors and their teams. The new classes are looking brilliant in last-minute trials and we’ve got two milestones to celebrate this time – ...

Wow – we made it! As of last week, Les Mills is officially in more than ten thousand clubs in 63 different countries!!! What an amazing effort for a small company from a small country at the bottom of the world!!!! Huge credit also goes to our Les Mills agents, trainers and instructors around the world and it was great news to see new clubs in ...

No pressure – just the first time we have ever filmed all seven new classes on one day! And in a new studio!! And with the Les Mills New Zealand’s superquarterly going off on the same day!!! And with minor issues like having to carry 43 RPM bikes back and forth from their usual home!!!! And with this being my first class as BODYPUMP head ...

After the craziness of a full on week at IHRSA25 in Las Vegas (which Phillip says was the best industry convention he has ever attended), he wanted to go up into the Rocky Mountains to clear his head in the beautiful mountain air. Part of the motivation for this was we are writing a book for Random House on building exercise and eating habits ...

The IHRSA25 convention in Las Vegas was the usual sensory implosion of business shifting from stocks to frocks and back again in the flick of a neon sign for four days solid. In its 25th year IHRSA broke every record: more people, more countries, more sessions and a combined attendance at the Las Vegas Convention Center in excess of 14000 ...

Filming the new BODYBALANCE 33 class was special in many ways but not least because of something that happened just before the start. My good friend and fellow teacher Dave Horn ran up and presented me with an incredible gift from UK teachers Dave Beech and Shirley England. It was a lovely pendant made from a special stone called smokey fluorite ...

Finishing a new round of classes is a big relief for the Les Mills program directors – and a great excuse for a quarterly get-together and wind-down. So on completion of the 2/2006 Release off we went for a day of swimming, picnicking, walking and frisbee-ing at spectacular Piha beach near Auckland. This is one of the most beautiful spots in reach ...