Workouts & Exercises
The best exercise isn't in an app with 500 of them. It is the one built for the person who turned up today
In short: Great exercise creation isn't picking from a 500-move library. It is building a movement for how a client feels and moves that day, the craft the FASTER Movement Trainer course teaches.
The short version
Great exercise creation isn't picking from a library. It is building a movement for how a client feels and moves that day, from what a trainer can see and the science of how training feels. That craft sits at the heart of the FASTER Movement Trainer course, and it is where coaching stops feeling like guesswork.
Key Takeaways
- The best exercise in the room usually isn't on any list. It gets built for the actual person in front of you.
- Exercise creation is a skill: read how someone moves and feels, then shape a movement to match.
- The FASTER Movement Trainer course teaches it, and the PT Manager is where you build and save the results.
Five hundred exercises and nothing to do
The industry loves an app with five hundred exercises in it. Five hundred. As if the thing standing between a trainer and a brilliant session is a shortage of GIFs. The good ones know better. The best exercise in the room is rarely on the list, because it gets built on the spot for the human who actually showed up, sore shoulder and all.
Building beats picking
Start with a plain movement, a hip hinge will do, and shape it to the person. Shift where the weight sits. Change the base from two feet to one. Add a reach so it learns to turn. Slow it down for control, or sharpen it for power. Same root, a hundred honest variations, each one chosen for a reason a trainer could say out loud.
There is more on reading a simple movement in a hip hinge is bending at the hips, if that helps.
The science of how it feels
The database never captures the part that matters. A good exercise isn't only mechanically correct, it feels right to the person doing it, and that feeling can be trained. FASTER teaches exercise creation from the science of feeling and emotion, so the movement a trainer builds lands in the body and the mood, not just the spreadsheet. Add HMAC eyes, seeing what the body is doing and predicting what a change will do, and a trainer stops guessing and starts designing.
That is also the end of imposter syndrome. Nobody feels like a fraud when they can build the right thing on demand.
Where it is taught, and where it lives
The Movement Trainer course hands a trainer the variables, the reasoning behind them, and the confidence to build live in the room. It is £375, and it is one of the most enjoyable steps on the FASTER ladder. For a trainer who qualified elsewhere, it is also the way into the PT Manager without sitting Level 2 and 3 again. Once those creations exist, the PT Manager is where you build them, save them, and turn them into a programme, all visual, all in your name.
FASTER keeps it easy to absorb too. Watch it, read it, write your answer, or dictate it out loud. The method meets a trainer where they learn best.
Build your own, stop borrowing
The Movement Trainer (AFT) course is £375, and it turns a trainer who picks exercises into one who creates them. That is the difference clients feel and remember.
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Want to go deeper? the Movement Trainer (AFT) course is £375.
View the course →Also worth a look: build and save your own exercises in the PT Manager.
View the course →Frequently asked
Do I need to memorise hundreds of exercises to be a good trainer?
No. The useful skill is building a movement for the person in front of you by changing a few variables. The FASTER Movement Trainer course teaches that craft.
What is exercise creation?
It is designing a movement to fit how a client moves and feels that day, from the science of feeling and emotion, rather than picking from a fixed list.
Where does the PT Manager come in?
It is where a trainer builds and saves their own exercises and turns them into a visual programme the client can follow, in the trainer's own name.
