The Story Behind GFX
My wife has been a group fitness instructor in the Les Mills programs since 2007. She is certified in BODYATTACK™, BODYPUMP™, BODYCOMBAT™, BODYBALANCE™, LES MILLS GRIT™, and LES MILLS CORE™. Aside from our three children, teaching her classes is her greatest passion.
As a group fitness instructor in the Les Mills programs, every quarter you get new choreography. Typically the gyms and instructors coordinate to follow the same releases. It's a great opportunity to teach with colleagues and create opportunties to draw in more members.
Aside from the quarterly releases, it's the responsibility of the group fitness instructors to mix up the class playlists. I noticed my wife opening up Les Mills DVD after DVD, or scanning releases on her Les Mills app to change out her choreography to keep the class fresh and engaging for the members.
It occurred to me that there was no centralized catalog of this information. At least not a catalog that understood how instructors go about creating class playlists. In the absence of this catalog, instructors had to either manually review the music and choreography, or reach out to their groups on social media to figure out which release had a particular artist, certain song, or didn't have an exercise they wanted to avoid for a member.
