Aerobics Oz Style
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| Aerobics Oz Style | |
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 Aerobics Oz Style logo |
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| Genre | Exercise |
| Starring | Effie Michaels Michelle Dean June Jones Jodie Low Helen Tardent Wendi Carroll Kelly Martinovich Jose Garcia |
| Country of origin |  Australia |
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| Camera setup | Multi-Camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes (Including Commercials) |
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| Original channel | Channel Ten |
| Picture format | PAL |
| Original run | 1982 – 2005 |
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| Official website | |
Aerobics Oz Style was a long-running Australian aerobics instruction television series, shown in Australia weekdays on the Ten network at 6:00am or 6:30am and distributed to many other countries. It was cancelled by Channel Ten at the end of 2005.
The series began in 1982 and had run continuously through until 2005, with over 4,500 episodes produced, by production company Zero1Zero. The format remained consistent throughout its run. Each show is 30 minutes divided into four segments, one of warmup exercises, two main exercise segments, and a stretch/cool-down segment. One instructor leads the exercises, with four demonstrators following to the side and behind. Later shows were shot outdoors at scenic locations around Sydney, in earlier shows an indoor studio was used.
Each show has an exercise theme. The mainstays since inception include low-impact, legs, abdominals, body toning. Other later themes include boxing or kick-boxing style, and pilates. Older styles included light hand weights. Fashions in exercise-wear have moved with the times too, leotards over bicycle shorts in the early days giving way to halter tops and tight shorts.
A set of Aerobics Oz Style exercise videos are sold too, in a longer format than the shows broadcast, and including some exercise styles not otherwise featured, such as Swiss ball and latin dancing (with Jose Garcia).
All the instructors and demonstrators on the show were women, but the show is intended for any age or gender.
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[edit] Personnel
[edit] In 2005
- June Jones — instructor and demonstrator, a founding member of the show.
- Wendi Carroll — instructor and demonstrator, a founding member of the show.
- Taryn Polovin — instructor and demonstrator, recently joined.
- Helen Tardent — instructor for the pilates shows, joined the series with the introduction of those shows. Tardent was previously a professional dancer at the London Royal Academy of Dance and now owns and operates a Pilates studio in Double Bay, Sydney.
- Effie Michaels — costume designer, previously a demonstrator (married to Harry Michaels).
- Mia Baker — demonstrator and former jazz dancer.
- Emma Whitty — demonstrator.
- Jacqueline Green — demonstrator and former international sport aerobic and fitness world champion (2004) along with Kelly Piper and Karen Lake.
- Kelly Piper — demonstrator and former international sport aerobic and fitness champion (2004) along with Jacqueline Green and Karen Lake.
- Kate McCracken — demonstrator and dancer.
- Erinjayne Gard — demonstrator.
- Harry Michaels — executive producer, previously director.
[edit] Past personnel
- Michelle Dean — instructor and demonstrator, a past winner of the world aerobics title.
- Jodie Low — demonstrator, winner of the 1996 Miss Fitness Australia title.
- Michelle Nicholas — demonstrator.
[edit] Trivia
- In the Australian comedy series Pizza, the Aerobics Oz Style format and team appear as Claudia MacPherson's aerobics workout show, with Claudia as the instructor.
- Shannon Cleary who appeared on and lead a few Aerobics Oz Style episodes was a contestant on Big Brother series 2 (2002)
- Australian band TISM parodied aerobics oz style in their 1998 film clip 'What are ya?' in which all members start off following the instuctor before drinking (and throwing) beer cans and jumping over couches.
