Aerobics Oz Style

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Aerobics Oz Style
Format	Exercise
Starring	Taryn Noble (Polovin) Mia Baker June Jones Erin Jayne Gard Helen Tardent Wendi Carroll Kate McCracken
Country of origin	Australia
Production
Camera setup	Multi-Camera
Running time	30 minutes (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	Network Ten
Picture format	PAL
Original run	1982 – 2005
External links
Official website

Aerobics Oz Style was a long-running Australian aerobic exercise instruction television series, shown in Australia on weekends and then weekdays on Network Ten at 6:00 am then 6:30 am and distributed to many other countries. It was cancelled by Channel Ten at the end of 2005.^[1] AOS will continue to be broadcast on Australian television via AURORA Channel 183 - on the Foxtel Digital, Optus and Austar platforms - which broadcasts Aerobics Oz Style every day at 6.30am AEST and also 2.00pm AEST.

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 was 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 had an exercise theme. The mainstays since inception included high and low-impact, legs, abdominals, body toning. Other later themes included kick-boxing, low impact with a mixture of Latin dancing and pilates. Older styles included light hand weights and dynabands. Fashions in exercise-wear 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 in a longer format than the shows broadcast, and include some exercise styles not otherwise featured, such as Swiss ball.

The instructors and demonstrators on the show were a mixture of men and women. The show was intended for any age or gender.

1 Personnel
- 1.1 In 2005
- 1.2 Past personnel
2 Trivia
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Personnel

[edit] In 2005

June Jones — instructor and demonstrator, a founding member of the show.
Wendi Carroll — instructor and demonstrator
Taryn Noble — 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.
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 and former actor on Number 96.

[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
Effie Michaels — costume designer, previously a demonstrator (married to Harry Michaels).
Shannon Dolan — instructor and demonstrator
Robyn Lambourne — demonstrator
Raymond Smith — instructor and demonstrator
John Novak — instructor and demonstrator
Marcus Irwin — instructor and demonstrator
Jayne Leslie — demonstrator (daughter of former 60 minutes reporter, Ian Leslie)
Gina Good — demonstrator, 2x World Aerobics Championship Representative.
Michelle Newland — demonstrator
Michael Reid — demonstrator
Rebecca Bowles — instructor and demonstrator
Bret Paton — instructor and demonstrator
Anton Scott — instructor and demonstrator
Cheetah Zylstra — demonstrator
Natalie Michaels — demonstrator (daughter of Effie and Harry Michaels)
Natasha Stuart — instructor and demonstrator
Jaynie Seal — demonstrator (partner of Ed Phillips)
Kelly Martinovich — instructor and demonstrator
Jose Garcia — instructor and demonstrator
Debbie Green — demonstrator

[edit] Trivia

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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 Australia series 2 (2002)
Australian band TISM parodied Aerobics Oz Style in their 1998 music video for "Whatareya?", in which all members start off following the instructor before drinking (and throwing) beer cans and jumping over couches.