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Hey Guys… Well…its 2007 and I could swear that it seems like seconds ago I was wishing you all a Happy Holidays and Happy New Year. So much is planned this year and my calender is filling up quickly with trips all over to come and meet you lovely people… I know some of you have already got planned a trip down this way over the next 12 ...

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 ...

Don't mess the UK BEST!! This is the UK BC Team in London, pre-BC29 masterclass. Dan, me, Phil (with the crazy hair), Steve (Big Guns) and Dave (Dangerous Dave ai!) We went Old School in the UK with a trip to Dagenham in London and Edinburgh to see what the Scots had  going for them - and boy they showed good form! It ...

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 ...

Mr. Shirato Takuya is in town with instructors and club owners from all over Japan and it’s fab – I have had a natural facelift take place from smiling for all the photos we have had taken!!After a BODYCOMBAT class on Monday afternoon, we all jumped up on stage and  had 15+ cameras thrown at one poor guy to take 15 photos of us all on the ...

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 ...

Just back from the Euro training summit in Berlin which was surely the most productive and “connected” we have ever done – truly a “life-changing fitness experience” and one that will have a ripple effect as trainers pass on the benefits to instructors at workshops and modules in their home countries. For me, the journey to the summit started at ...

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 ...

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 ...