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LES MILLS QUALIFICATIONS

LES MILLS

Designed to recognize and reflect your ability as an Instructor, your commitment to continuous improvement, and provide a personalized development plan based on your strengths.

QUALIFICATIONS

What are LES MILLS QUALIFICATIONS?

Les Mills Qualifications are an assessment framework to help you become the best version of you.

Designed to recognize that group fitness instructing is an art, and the levels and grades represent the teacher’s progression towards teaching mastery. As leaders in the education and training of group fitness professionals, this is the Les Mills gold standard of development and recognition.

LES MILLS QUALIFICATIONS

How does it work?

The qualifications are all about your strengths in the 5 Key Elements:

• Choreography
• Technique
• Coaching
• Connection
• Performance

You receive a grade between 1-3 for each of the 5 Key Elements, and a combination of these will give you an outcome - a level. The focus is on the grades. As you move towards higher grades in the 5 Key elements your level will recognize and reflect this.

Les Mills Qualifications are accompanied by development opportunities, including complementary self-directed tool boxes and personal development plans.

Members of our team held a webinar on the launch of Les Mills Qualifications and what it means for you.

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Check out the full overview of the grades and levels, as well as the grade reviews for the programs currently available for submission.

BODYATTACK™

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BODYBALANCE™

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BODYCOMBAT™

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BODYJAM™

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BODYPUMP™

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BODYSTEP™

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LES MILLS CORE™

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LES MILLS DANCE™

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LES MILLS GRIT™

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LES MILLS PILATES™

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LES MILLS SHAPES™

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LES MILLS SPRINT™

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LES MILLS STRENGTH DEVELOPMENT™

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LES MILLS TONE™

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LES MILLS YOGA™

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RPM™

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FAQ's

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We answered.

Les Mills Qualifications is live with all programs except Born to Move™.

LM Qualifications

You will keep your current certification status. Advanced, AIM 1 Complete, AIM 2 Compete, and Elite Instructors will have the opportunity to have their personal grades against each of the 5 Key Elements assessed. Thank you to all our instructors who continue to work on their craft and attend the additional education that we offer.

LM Qualifications

The purpose of Les Mills Qualification is to help you understand your strengths and development areas to continue to improve as an Instructor. We are not actively recruiting for the TAP team at this time.

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Your level and grade changes based on the development of your individual strengths. Each of the 5 Key Elements will be assessed to a certain grade and the combination of those grades is what creates a level - the overall outcome. Participate in Advanced Training and continue your personal education pathway to develop your strengths, so that when you send in your next video for assessment you will see the improvement in level to match your improvement in the Key Elements.

Levels are allocated via assessment and Instructors are welcome to submit assessments for review at any time.

LM Qualifications

No, you do not have to continue to submit assessment videos to maintain your level, but you will need to submit assessment to increase your level and grades as your strengths improve.An Instructor must stay active to retain their current level. The requirements to stay active vary from market to market; please contact your local office if you are unsure of these.

LM Qualifications

Yes, although most likely your strengths are similar, each program has its own assessment criteria for the 5 key elements - just like we do today for certification.

LM Qualifications

Choreography has 2 grades to reflect that we are all human and make the odd choreography mistake! The power of the workout comes from a combination of ALL the 5 Key Elements.

LM Qualifications

All of the 5 Key Elements are assessed ongoing, and as you move up the levels, you will be recognized for achieving a combination of grades 1, 2 and 3 against each Key Element. You will see there are two pathways within each level. This is to recognize that some of us may develop all 5 Key Elements at about the same pace and some of us may have a strength in one or two key elements while still developing the others. Levels 6 and 6.5 are so close in development, which is why they are displayed within the same level.

LM Qualifications

The LES MILLS GRIT assessment for the grades will be against the 3 skills rather than 5 Key Elements, but the grades to make up the levels will be consistent with other programs.

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