FOCUS qualification
Just Level 2
£600
The gym instructor qualification on its own. The foundation everything else builds on.
View Just Level 2 UK fitness education · Established 2006 
The fitness education company that's on your side
Recognised qualifications and skills most trainers never learn, taught by the people who wrote them. Real humans answer. Even the CEO.
✓Delivered through FOCUS Awards, recognised by CIMSPA
✓Self-paced, start today
✓No sales calls, ever
✓Free lifetime return access
Prices on show. Humans on hand. John on WhatsApp.
What is FASTER?
FASTER Health and Fitness is a UK fitness education company, established 2006, delivering personal trainer qualifications and CPD, delivered through FOCUS Awards and recognised by CIMSPA, taught online by the people who wrote them. No sales calls, no fake deadlines, free lifetime return access.
Level up to Personal Trainer 
Become a personal trainer
No idea where to start? Why would you? You are just starting. You do not need a bag of courses and a panic purchase. You need the right first step.
To become a personal trainer, that means Level 2 Gym Instructor and Level 3 Personal Trainer. Everything else can build later. Dip your toe with Just Level 2, get qualified properly with Certified Personal Trainer, or go Career Mentored if you want future-you to have choices.
I'm starting from scratch
Most people choose this
Level 2 + Level 3 · FOCUS qualifications
Certified Personal Trainer
£1,500
Level 2, Level 3 and Movement Trainer together. The full route from scratch to qualified personal trainer, one price.
View Certified PTThe degree-model route · mentored by John
Career Mentored
£3,250
Qualify first, then build properly. The qualification, core development, course choices and John's mentoring the whole way, without locking future-you into the wrong route. For people who want to be a coach, not just hold a certificate that says they could be.
View Career MentoredI already have a Level 2
Level up your Level 2
FOCUS qualification
Level 3
£900
Finish your climb to Level 3 Certified Personal Trainer.
View the Level 3The degree-model route · mentored by John
Career Mentored (from Level 2)
£2,650
You have the Level 2. Qualify to Level 3, then build properly. Core development, course choices and John's mentoring the whole way, without locking future-you into the wrong route. For people who want to be a coach, not just hold a certificate that says they could be.
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Still not sure?
Free check
Does your certificate count? Can you skip ahead because you did something similar? Questions like that are best asked in person. Send it to John on WhatsApp, book a call with him, or just send him a joke if you like. Checked for free, no obligation, no follow-up calls.
WhatsApp your certificate Already qualified?
Qualified, but you keep hitting the same wall?
You did what the industry told you. Got the Level 3, maybe a bag of CPD someone talked you into, and none of it joined up. That is not you failing, that is how this industry sells. Pick the wall you keep hitting. There is a course built to get you over it, chosen with you, not sold at you.
Get me moving againWhy FASTER? (You had me at "why".)
Taught by our Authors
Taught by the people who wrote the courses. Ask them directly. They have rebuilt whole lessons for one student before now.
Free lifetime return access
You do not learn everything once. You pass, you coach, you hit new problems, then old lessons mean more. That is why FASTER graduates keep access for life.
Clear prices. No early-money tricks.
We show the price before you buy. Payment plans are at checkout. No pressure calls, no fake deadlines, and no 'pay a deposit now, cancel later' nonsense.
Certified to start. Coached to be remembered.
Qualifications delivered through FOCUS Awards, recognised by CIMSPA. That gets you in the door. FASTER builds the skill and confidence that makes clients come back for you.
John answers the WhatsApp
No call centre. No ticket queue. No waiting for someone who has never seen the course. John answers himself, so happy you messaged you would think you had known him for years. Do not mention comedy or football though, you may never get him off the phone.
Falling off and getting back on the bike since 2006
We let John have one title, and he put an analogy in it. Our filter is simple: will this make life better for our trainers? If yes, we do it. If not, we do not. If we are wrong, we change it. Since 2006, that is a lot of learning.
Proof John did not write 
Become the trainer other trainers wish they were
We magnify the best bits of your character until you become a shiny beacon of yourself. A trainer you love being and clients love coming back to. Then, when everyone else finally notices how great you are, like we already knew, we dance around like idiots. Sometimes people get so happy they write it down on Google. These two did.
★★★★★
I started with FASTER in 2008 when John came and presented at the PT convention set up by Fitness First for all of its PTs. John talked about the body in a way that brought all the boring anatomy to life, made it practical and something I could use instantly to give my clients a better experience and set me apart from all the other trainers. I was also embarrassed that I didn't fully understand what he was talking about, even though he was speaking slowly and clearly 😄 18 years and 6 FASTER educational courses later I've just started using FASTER Social Media 365 and in 7 weeks I've got a full book and had months worth of enquiries in weeks. Just about to set up the waiting list. Never thought that could happen for me. Thanks John.
— Dom Meacher · FASTER student since 2008
★★★★★
My ongoing education and experience with FASTER has been second to none. The level of care and support combined with the access to knowledge from a broad spectrum of sources and trainers has blown other education providers out of the water. I have been training with FASTER since 2015 and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
— Emma Woodcock · Training with FASTER since 2015
IT'S AN *F'ING BLOG (*FASTER's, obviously) 
Grow your brain for free
Sports Science & S&C
Is a Level 4 S&C worth it? The certificate is the cheap part
The honest routes into strength and conditioning, and why the tools that train an Olympian also give your 50-year-old client with a dodgy knee a better session.
28 July 2026
Core & Pelvic Floor
Your Level 3 mentioned the pelvic floor once. Your clients noticed.
Kegels help some conditions and do nothing for others. Taping and fascial release are weaker than sold. Here is what the evidence supports, and where movement beats a fix.
26 July 2026
MSAS
What does a movement screen actually tell you about the client in front of you?
The Functional Movement Screen is everywhere. Its ability to predict injury sits close to a coin toss. Here is what a screen can and cannot honestly tell you.
26 July 2026
Let's not pretend. It's a mailing list. We send you blogs, useful ideas and things we have been getting excited about, in the hope that you open them, learn something and get results. Maybe you make loads of money, buy loads of FASTER courses and let John retire in the sun. Maybe you build a nicer business and enjoy yourself. Both count.
They let me write this part
Still deciding?
Good. I like someone who mulls things over. It's John here. WhatsApp me and we can talk it through. I might tell you FASTER is right for you. I might tell you it isn't, then spend the evening helping you find what is. I love my job, and I love helping people, so get in touch.
Payment plans at checkout on every route. Graduate with FASTER and your course material is yours for life. Like a supermarket bag for life, except we will not vanish into the bag drawer with the fifteen you forgot to take back.
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