BodyPump

BodyPump is a weight-based group-fitness program, created and distributed globally by Les Mills International. Every week 5.5 million people attend a Les Mills class in 17,500 licenced health clubs in over 100 countries.

The first BodyPump classes were created by Phillip Mills and his wife Dr Jackie Mills in December 1991 in Auckland, New Zealand. According to Dr Jackie Mills the idea was to attract men into the group fitness studio while also breaking down the stigma that women shouldn’t, or couldn’t, do weight training.