{"id":4988,"date":"2021-08-03T02:35:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T02:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/?page_id=4988"},"modified":"2023-10-23T23:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T23:59:25","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/about-us\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tOUR HISTORY\n\t<\/h1>\n<!-- this template is based on Applyflow V2 - plugin version 5.3 -->\n\t\t<label for=\"search\">KEYWORDS<\/label>\n\t\t<input id=\"searchKey\" name=\"searchKey\" placeholder=\"Keywords\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSelect Classification\n\t\t\t\t\tin all classifications\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00d7\n\t\t\t\t Select classifications from below <ul><li>\n                                         Human Resources &#038; Recruitment \n                                            <ul>\n                                                <li>\n                                                         All Human Resources &#038; Recruitment \n                                                <\/li>\n                                            <\/ul>\n                                         Select sub classifications <ul><li>\n                                                All\n                                        <\/li>\n                                        <\/ul>\n                        <\/li><li>\n                                         Sales \n                                            <ul>\n                                                <li>\n                                                         All Sales \n                                                <\/li>\n                                            <\/ul>\n                                         Select sub classifications <ul><li>\n                                                All\n                                        <\/li>\n                                        <\/ul>\n                        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                                   All\n                                        <\/li>\n                                        <\/ul>\n                        <\/li><li>\n                                         Data \/ Analytics \n                                            <ul>\n                                                <li>\n                                                         All Data \/ Analytics \n                                                <\/li>\n                                            <\/ul>\n                                         Select sub classifications <ul><li>\n                                                All\n                                        <\/li>\n                                        <\/ul>\n                        <\/li><li>\n                                         Customer Service \n                                            <ul>\n                                                <li>\n                                                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<\/li><li>\n                                         Digital\/  Online \n                                            <ul>\n                                                <li>\n                                                         All Digital\/  Online \n                                                <\/li>\n                                            <\/ul>\n                                         Select sub classifications <ul><li>\n                                                All\n                                        <\/li>\n                                        <\/ul>\n                        <\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"classification-trans\" value=\"classifications\" \/>\n\t\t\t<label for=\"locationDd\">LOCATION<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" id=\"locationDd\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\tSelect Location\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t China\n                    Germany\n                    New Zealand\n                    Japan\n                    Nordic\n                    United Kingdom\n                    USA\n                    Saudi Arabia\n                    United Arab Emirates\n                    Brazil\n                    India\n                    Russia\n                    Africa\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<button type=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\tFIND JOB\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/JvDLrQ9TpxA\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\/>\n\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our YouTube Channel\n\t\t\t\t\t <!-- Need to be enqueued from someplace else --> \n\t\t<h2>\n\t\tFIFTY YEARS STRONG\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Every Olympic athlete aims high and wants to be the best in their field. Our founder is a four-time Olympian who always sets big goals. Les Mills Snr represented New Zealand in track and field at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games, winning a Commonwealth gold medal for discus in 1966. Les Mills Snr started his first gym in Auckland, New Zealand in 1968. Now, fifty years on, LES MILLS\u2122 workouts are loved by millions and available in clubs and gyms all across the planet.<\/p>\n\t<p>After witnessing the aerobics phenomenon in the United States, Phillip Mills and wife Jackie, began developing high-energy aerobics and strength classes.<\/p>\n<p>Fitness is literally in our blood. Les Mills Snr was not the only family member to represent his country in sport. His wife Colleen, daughter Donna and his son Phillip (now our MD) all wore the silver fern as national athletes of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip joined the business full-time in 1980 and immediately began to create innovative ways to motivate people. Not afraid to take risks, Phillip and his mates from the entertainment business were the first to create group workouts driven by the beat of modern music. Those early aerobic programs drew queues down the street and Phillip could sense the real power of group fitness.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990 we changed the game by adding barbells to the studio with the original PUMP class. Massively popular in Australia and New Zealand, we knew it was a winning formula. In 1997, it was renamed BODYPUMP\u2122 and our crew of road warriors took it to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Les Mills International was born.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesmills.com\/about-us\/our-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLEARN MORE ABOUT OUR HERITAGE\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR HISTORY KEYWORDS Select Classification in all classifications \u00d7 Select classifications from below Human Resources &#038; Recruitment All Human Resources &#038; Recruitment Select sub classifications All Sales All Sales Select sub classifications All Legal All Legal Select sub classifications All Accounting All Accounting Select sub classifications All Information Technology All Information Technology Select sub classifications&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4974,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4988","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9010,"href":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4988\/revisions\/9010"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careers.lesmills.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}