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Michele

(Michela002)
Female, 27 Years Old
Costa Mesa, California
United States

Qualified To Teach

09/01/08: Just got back from the fantastic Arizona Instructor Upskilling Sessions (BodyCombat and BodyPump) and Quarterly. It was a blast, and I learned a lot and can't wait to apply it all! And am SO excited about BC37!

08/22/08: I'm LEGIT! RPM Certification is done and done! Got my assessment back today and I nailed it! YEAH BABY!

MH

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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.)

Messages

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Scott	Some great quotes on your page :)
	07 Oct 2008 01:52

Steffen

Long story...we're fighting for our LM-licence 'cause our manager wants to save money :( So we had a BC summerbreak and launched #35 few weeks ago (it is the training-programm of my team-teach-partner-girl). So why not. We will stay hard!

FIGHT!!!
=)

06 Oct 2008 08:30

Steffen	No, the club where I work is always running late. We launched BC#35(!) three weeks ago...really!!! But that doesn't matter because our members don't know the number of actual programs LOL Cool, your efforts for new releases. We should begin to do similar things. It seems to be funny =)
	05 Oct 2008 02:53

Trond

Hey Michele:-)

I find this video on youtube, I think it is cool, and very inspireing for every matrial artist;-): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2cQhxy6sY&feature=rec-fresh. This man is my goul;-)!!!
Anyway, yesterday, and next week, it wos, and is only BC-37:-D!!! Very cool. I am very happy that I am as good trained as I am, becous it is a strong, and very cool realise;-). Self after I convinced to Karate, I will still stay in for BC, becous of the alternativ matrial art-training, you don't get in Kyokushin karate. Like hight cardio-training. And both are boulding very mutch up against eatch-ather. That is very cool:-)

Have a nice weakend, I hope you are still ok:-)

Trond

03 Oct 2008 08:48

Steffen	hey, combat girl, everything's all right on (nearly) the other side of the world? keep on kickin' hard!!!
	03 Oct 2008 01:53

Trond

Hi Michele:-)

I wish to hear your upiniun about this, in capoeira, we get three different basic kicks, what do you think about this two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-9QPo13Bvc&feature=related (drop the weal-part;-)!), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei8uduKe7M4&feature=related .
All of them have to be bould up over the track, to be more safer and be a bigger chance for sucscess. There is three basic kicks in capoeira, this are two of them, the last could I not find.

I wish your first ideas about them:-)

Trond

22 Sep 2008 12:17

Charlene the BP Queen

Hey Michele - Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!

Hope all things are well w/you.

We have a new BP instructor in training at our club (Sheilagh) - she & I team taught #66 last night and were talking about trying to make it to your next launches. Have you set your launch dates yet? (Hope we didn't miss them!) Thanks for keeping us in the loop! Kathy, Sheilagh & I would love to join you!

Take Care!
Charlene

19 Sep 2008 12:53

Trond

Hi michele:-)

B.C-37 have the little must that all the ather realises before have loost. Special before 35. The cardio-training and kicks is given highter priority:-D. Alternativ capoeira-moves, that is alvays cool becous of capoeira is so excotic and non-vielent matrial art, where the roda is in focus;-). Capoeira is so unic becous it have so mutch to offer and mutch seacrets. Like muay thai;-). It is stronger for the total Body:-D. And that is, after my upininniun, the most importent part in the training. This time B.C give potential to be stronger over the hole body. Becous of many kicks, deap gingas, lounges. And at the end sit-ups and push-ups;-)... I realy love this realise. But the clue is that I can't be at two plases at the same time. And the Karate-training is so cool that I don't can scip it. Have you traied to training clean matrial arts? In Kyokushin, it is the first goul, for everyone, to get the black belt. And the members who have the black belt, have mutch to fight for. It is a quality task to have this belt. Only the hardest and touthest get it. I hear roumers about the gradiation take about 10 houres;-).... And the members who are going up to this, must have higth qualitys. For more info, look at the home-pages for Kyokushin Karate;-)...

Have a nice day:-)

Trond

18 Sep 2008 12:01

Trond	To night they will lounch B.C.37;-)... I prommis the instructer to come and take part on it. It will be funny. He prommised to ceap an extra aye to wotch that I go deap enouth in the lounge;-)... Just after two BodyAttacks, and one Karate-klass. He is creasy;-)... The new B.A. is cool. Easy coorgrafy, but very hard:-D. You get realy work in there and the puls level is getting new hights;-).
	18 Sep 2008 05:51

Trond	Now it is don, I started up with Kyokushin Kai Karate training after dismissed 11 years:-D!!!! It wos great training and very funny. The first and I will seriusly miss B.C. But the clue is that most priortyed class going when the B.C-class is running... That is not good, becous I wished I could cross-trained this two stiles.
	12 Sep 2008 01:24