Les Mills Qualifications

Les Mills Qualifications is live in the United States with all programs except The Trip™ and Born to Move™.

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 at no cost as part of the initial launch of Les Mills Qualifications.
Thank you to all our instructors who continue to work on their craft and attend the additional education that we offer. Anyone who attended AIM 1, AIM 2, Advanced trainings or is marked as Elite is entitled to a free assessment under the new LMQ framework. You will be able to submit one program for feedback and grade review for all programs except The Trip™ and Born to Move&amp™.

As a certified Instructor, you have met the requirements for certification so will not lose your certification. You can of course be assessed again if you’d like to ensure your strengths are clearly identified and to have a personal education pathway specific to your needs.

Your assessment remains the same. Once Les Mills Qualifications are launched, they will be used for new Initial Training participants. You are always welcome to get reassessed to check your grades against each of the 5 Key Elements to identify your strengths. This will also allow you to have a personal education pathway specific to your needs.

The purpose of Les Mills Qualification is to help you understand your strengths and development areas to continue to improve as an Instructor. If you decide to participate in Les Mills Recruit, a Level 5 is the minimum requirement to be considered for the TAP Team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.