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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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Trond

Hey M:-)

How is the new BodyPump realise? I start soon after the hard periode. It is blown up... After some time-problems with the L.M-program each week at the club. Pluss importent training I have to do in without the program. I start with BodyPump as restitution-traing. Don't tell me it is a hard class:-P. The B.C-instructers who did not have seing me for some weeks, start to ask questions abaut where I am and exc... They will lounch B.C. 37 in two weeks;-).

Have a great weakend:-)

Trond

05 Sep 2008 04:41

Trond	Did you hinting to say I have to chouse between B.A and B.C from now:-P? It is hard to have two BodyAttack-classes and BodyStep before a BodyCombat ordinary (in my gym they don't have more then one BodyCombat a week). But I stand on my point that they have to train more the feet becous that have being weak-point in BodyCombat b4. Did you like the movie I sent you:-)?
	04 Sep 2008 08:05

Trond	Have you seing the new B.C-37-program;-)? The instructer here tell it is very thouph:-P. I don't know what I chould belive? Is it trou or falls? Or are thay week:-P? Peace:-D
	04 Sep 2008 04:19

Trond

Hi Michele:-D

I only tell the facts, michele:-). You wos the first to tell, and systimaise the criteria for what who burn callories in a BodyCombat-class. And that make scill and experience. I have heard some roumeres about the same in my gym, but they came from older aerobich-instructers. I have heard the same from my own B.C-instructer;-). The new realis is hot. I like this one. But There is some missing in it. I hope they are filled in. But the good stuff is it is harder, and give potential for fitness-training for the leggs, and more challenging then the last one. The fitness-training for the feets have being a miss in previus B.C.-realises... Therfor you have to support it with some alternativ training, running, B.A, step exc, for make progress and better scill for kicking.

Have a great week:-)

Trond

01 Sep 2008 11:09

Mike	Thanks for the kind words...I love what I do! It was great to meet you, remember I'm not that far away come on up for a class and a vacation or something. I'm sure we will cross paths again sooner than later! Your Yank friend, Mike
	01 Sep 2008 05:46

Rachel	Hey Michele Great to meet you too! What a fab weekend, huh? Can't wait to get the music and notes etc now so that I can start to learn it all - phew! Keep in touch and stay well. Rach
	01 Sep 2008 02:36

Charlene the BP Queen	Let me know your launch dates! Do you usually launch on Weds or Sats? I'd love to be there - and I'm sure my buddy Kathy would too! I will get my paperwork in - didn't realize you're needing subs! Queenie :)
	01 Sep 2008 02:16

Charlene the BP Queen	Hey Michelle! Congrats on your official RPM cert! Sounds like the Arizona Q was worthwhile...read about your experience on another friend's site and thought I'd check in w/cha & say "HI"! Still need to get my paperwork in to CB to be avail for subbing BP for you guys...Our club finally launched #66, and I'm enjoying it immensely!! Take Care! Queenie
	01 Sep 2008 12:32

Jambo

Michele,

Didn't get a chance to chat but I remember you from the "Q". Hope to meet you next time. Congrats on your RPM cert. by the way.

LIVE STRONG!

-Jambo

p.s. I'm riding with the Les Mills team in Austin. If you'd like to support the team please visit my profile. All the news is there!