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Become a PTLevel 2 and Level 3 with FOCUS Awards, from the very startCourses for PTsFor working trainers: movement, programming, special populations, businessFree courseRed Flags in Workouts: free, no cardPT ManagerFree from day one to learn on; real clients once qualified and on the RegisterBlogThree a day for trainers
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UK fitness education · Established 2006

The fitness education company that's on your side

Recognised qualifications and skills most trainers never learn, with real tutor support. Real humans answer. Even the CEO.

  • Qualifications delivered through FOCUS Awards, many CIMSPA endorsed
  • Self-paced, start today
  • No sales calls, ever
  • Free lifetime return access
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, Google review

Training trainers since 2006

FASTER Health and Fitness is a UK fitness education company, established 2006, delivering personal trainer qualifications and CPD, with qualifications delivered through FOCUS Awards and many CIMSPA endorsed, taught online with real tutor support. No sales calls, no fake deadlines, free lifetime return access.

How you study

  • Phone, tablet or computer

    Use any of them, in any mix: start on the bus, finish at your desk. Speak your answers instead of typing them if you like.

  • No Word documents

    Nothing to download, fill in and upload. You answer on the page.

  • A practical, three ways

    When a course has a practical, film it and upload it, have a tutor watch you on Zoom, or have a tutor come out and watch you live. None of them changes the price or your plan.

  • Marked by a real tutor

    A person reads every written answer and writes back. Never AI.

  • Made to work for you

    Bigger text, high contrast, calmer motion, wider spacing or a plain view. Your choice stays on your device.

  • Your notes follow you

    Highlight a line and keep it in your Notebook, with the research you find. It builds across every course you take.

  • A free month for female and AFAB trainers

    Your first month on the Female and AFAB Fitness Professionals membership is free. No card. Leave when you like.

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Pick your route

Where are you starting?

Starting out
Become a PT
from £600

Level 2 Gym Instructor and Level 3 Personal Trainer, with FOCUS Awards. Start from nothing.

Become a PT
Already qualified
Courses for working trainers
from £300

Movement, programming, clients with conditions, athletes and the business. Pick the wall you keep hitting.

Courses for PTs
Try us first
Red Flags in Workouts
£0

The free course. Enrol yourself, no card. The same tutors, the same pages, the same way of learning.

Start the free course

Not sure? Find my course, one question at a time · Every course A to Z

Try it

Ten muscles on the 3D body. Tap where each one is. Marked at once. No account, nothing to download.

This is how we assess. No Word documents.

Play ten musclesTen taps. Works on a phone.

PT Manager

PT Manager is free from day one

Every FASTER student gets PT Manager free from day one. Use it with real clients once you are qualified and on the FASTER Trainer Register.

See PT Manager
A trainer's own website on a phone: Results Based Training, a coach cueing a lifter
Build website that is hosted for free
A client's record in PT Manager: Sarah M, her rooms with Programmes switched on, and a form sent to her
A client management portal with programming
The PT Manager calendar: a one-to-one, a lunch circuit eight of ten booked, a full evening class with a waitlist
A booking system for your clients
Video analysis: our tracker drawing the skeleton on a trainer swinging a club
Video analysis and other trainer tools
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Where each course leadsEvery course, on one map

Every course, on one map

  1. 01

    Get qualified

  2. 02

    Train outside the gym

  3. 03

    Clients with conditions

  4. 04

    Train athletes

  5. 05

    Fix the business

  6. 06

    Keep learning

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Get us in your box, your inbox (not your lunch box)

Get our daily links to the blogs, the latest news from faster on new courses, or live opportunities, or updates to our free for students PT Manager System.

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.

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Proof John did not write

Become the trainer other trainers wish they were

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 · Google review

Things we don't do

  • No sales calls.
  • No fake deadlines or countdown timers.
  • No resit fees.
  • No per-client charge on PT Manager.
  • No prices that end in 99, and nothing is ever discounted.
John Hardy, founder of FASTER, in the gym
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.