Every three months, the studio gets a fresh playlist, new choreography, and a room full of members wondering what’s coming next. But what makes members keep showing up for it, quarter after quarter?
Les Mills refreshes its group fitness programs every three months with new music, new moves, and updated workouts. At BeFit, these classes are BODYPUMP™, RPM™, BODYCOMBAT™, and BODYBALANCE™,which are all available to members with no additional fees. To find out why the quarterly release is something members look forward to, we sat down with one of our regulars, Joy.
For Joy, it started with a walk. She stopped by BeFit last August to ask about the classes, and her first one was BODYBALANCE™. Since then, she’s added RPM™, BODYCOMBAT™, and BODYPUMP™ to her week, and at the most recent quarterly release, she signed up for three classes: RPM™, BODYCOMBAT™, and BODYBALANCE™.
Joy lives with peripheral neuropathy, a nerve condition that, along with related muscle issues, causes pain every day in certain parts of her body. She also has balance and memory challenges, which can affect everyday tasks. Movement is what changes how she feels. “When I’m moving, when I’m cycling, it doesn’t hurt,” she says, which is why RPM™ has become a favorite. BODYBALANCE™ was hard for her at first, but has now become a favorite. “Now I love it because it improves me,” says Joy.
“Now I love it because it improves me.”
For Joy, every class has its own purpose. “Balance makes me improve. RPM takes away my pain. Combat challenges me to be better.” And BODYPUMP™? That one is her adventure, because it’s “something I’ve never done before.”
“Balance makes me improve. RPM takes away my pain. Combat challenges me to be better.”
So, what keeps her coming back? First, the music. “The music consistently fits the exercises. That’s what I like,” she shares. For Joy, every track feels intentional, with moves that flow into one another and a workout that builds as the class goes on, instead of starting hard and ending easy.
Then, there are the coaches. Before she even signed up, Joy shared her limitations with one of our BeFit coaches and learned from our coach that every move has a modification, so members don’t need to copy the movements exactly, and can do versions of it that they are capable of. That encouragement is what convinced her to join.
Her favorite class? BODYCOMBAT™. “That’s where I see my limits, even beyond what I think my limits are,” she says. It also brings back a part of her past, from the martial arts she trained in when she was younger.
And then there’s the community. For Joy, who lives with social anxiety, chatting with fellow members and our BeFit team has been a quiet comfort. Little by little, those conversations have given her reassurance and shown her that people are generally good.
Thinking of trying a class for the first time? Joy’s advice: “Just go, have fun. Do not build it up, and do not water it down.” Treat it like an adventure, and see where it takes you.
“Just go, have fun. Do not build it up, and do not water it down.”
Every quarter brings new music and new moves, but what stays the same is the energy in the room and the people you share it with. Ready to see for yourself? Sign up for a class in the BeFit app, or if you’re not yet a member, grab a Day Pass and try the latest Les Mills classes at BeFit. Your next favorite class is waiting to BeFit with you.
