Introducing our new guest blogger! A television personality, radio voice, journalist, writer and producer, Belinda Todd has had an impressive career throughout New Zealand and America. We're pleased to announce Belinda will now feature as a guest blog writer for Les Mills, bringing you all the latest in what's big in the world of group fitness. ...

The annual prediction of the hottest top ten trends in fitness has just been released. It’s fantastic to see a recommendation for consumers to train with certified professionals and programs. These are the top movers and shakers, as estimated by The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).1. Educated and experienced fitness professionals. ...

It’s crazy to believe the glitz and glamour of Masterclass 1/2012 has been and gone already! With nine international Masterclass presenters impressing us with their fantastic skills, and plenty of die-hard international and local fans attending, filming was a smooth success. We caught up with KC Roose, a UK instructor based in Central London ...

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks in the LMI office just now, with visits from Finland and the Netherlands – and I reckon we showed them just how we do things on the other side of the world! Probably summed up by their Maori welcome from yours truly – even if I am an honorary kiwi. It’s always great meeting a whole bunch of people who speak a ...

Hey RPMers Check this out! It’s the brand new RPM studio at the new Les Mills gym that just opened in Wellington. It’s the tenth in the Les Mills chain and looks like a fantastic new facility. Can’t wait to get down there and see it close up –especially this amazing RPM studio. The entrance looks like stepping onto the bridge of the Starship ...

Attending the global convention of all the Les Mills agents in Valencia, Spain was an awesome experience for us. Among the many highlights were celebrating reaching our target of 10,000 clubs running Les Mills classes around the world and, for me (Jackie), meeting the new distributors for Les Mills in the USA.Spending some downtime in Europe since ...

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 ...

Well, after many years a few of us in this day and age resort to a little “nip ‘n’ tuck” - so Studio One has had his/hers? Studio One has undergone many upgrades over these years, but NONE come close to the one just completed. All the Les Mills “big guns” have had a huge input into the making of this amazing Group Fitness Room, and need a big ...

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 ...

Les Mills International (LMI) is changing the way the world thinks about fitness. Our group exercise classes such as BODYPUMP, BODYSTEP, BODYJAM and RPM are delivering the fitness results people want and changing the lives of our global family.