Becoming a personal trainer is simple. Choosing who trains you is the hard part.
Three routes. One honest price each. No sales team, no fake deadlines, no pressure calls. You get a qualification done properly, free return access to your courses forever, and the founder on WhatsApp when you need him. FASTER has worked this way since 2006.
Already hold a Level 2 Gym Instructor qualification? You want this page instead.
Pick the route that fits your life. Not ours.
Every route is FOCUS Awards certified and recognised by CIMSPA. Every route includes free return access to your courses, forever. The difference is how far each one takes you.
- Level 2 Gym Instructor qualification
- Real 1-1 support while you study
- Free return access. Forever.
- Move up to Level 3 whenever you are ready
For you if money is tight right now. Get certified, get a role, earn, then come back for the personal trainer course when it suits you.
Start with Level 2- Level 2 + Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training, combined as one certificate
- Essentials of Getting Started: finding work, setting up, your first clients
- FASTER skill courses other providers do not teach
- Entry into the FASTER community of trainers
- Free return access. Forever.
For you if you want to qualify and actually be good on day one, not just hold a certificate like everyone else.
See the Certified course- Everything in Certified
- Core FASTER courses every serious trainer needs
- Optional courses you pick as you find your clients and your specialism
- John mentoring your direction throughout
- Free return access. Forever.
For you if you already know this is your career. Not a bag of courses. A route, with choices, like a degree should be.
See the career mentored routeStart small. Start properly. Come back when you are ready.
The Level 2 Gym Instructor qualification is the legal entry point to working on a gym floor in the UK. Plenty of providers treat it as a tick-box. We do not, because the habits you build at Level 2 are the habits you coach with for the rest of your career.
This route is for you if money is tight and you want to get earning first. You qualify, you get a role, you find out what the job actually feels like, and the Level 3 personal trainer course is waiting when you are ready. No bundle pressure, no upsell calls. And because your course access never expires, the material is still yours when you come back.
See the Level 2 course- Level 2 + Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training, combined as one certificate
- Essentials of Getting Started: your first job, setting up properly, a simple online presence
- Coaching fundamentals most courses skip: pad work, kettlebell coaching and more
- FASTER skill courses built from movement science, not CIMSPA box-ticking
- Entry into the FASTER community of working trainers
- Free return access to everything. Forever.
Qualified is the minimum. This route makes you good.
Every provider in the UK can sell you the combined Level 2 and 3 qualification. It is the baseline, the licence to work. What it does not do is make you any different from the thousand other people who qualified the same month you did.
The Certified route takes the qualification and adds the FASTER courses built from twenty years of training trainers: real coaching skill, real movement understanding, and the practical job of actually getting started. You finish certified, capable, and connected to a community of trainers who help each other, not competing for the same induction shift.
This is our best selling course, and it is our best selling course because it is honest. One price, everything in it, no surprise extras at checkout.
See the Certified courseThe degree model. Without the degree price.
The fitness industry loves selling bundles: a huge bag of courses, most of which you will never use, priced to look like a bargain. That is not what this is.
Career Mentored works the way a good degree works. There are core courses we want every serious trainer to complete, because they are the foundation of the job. Then there are options, and you choose them as your career takes shape: as you find your clients, discover what you love, and see where your market actually is. You are not lumbered on day one with courses you do not need. You choose as you grow, with John mentoring the direction.
Nobody should buy this from a webpage, and we do not sell it from one. If this sounds like you, message John. He will tell you honestly whether it fits, and he will tell you if it does not.
Talk to John about Career MentoredCore: the combined Level 2 and 3 qualification, Essentials of Getting Started, and the FASTER foundation courses in movement and coaching.
Options: chosen with John as your career develops. Specialise in what your clients actually need, from biomechanics to pre and postnatal to business, when the time is right, not before.
Standalone value of a typical completed route: over £5,000. The price stays £2,850.
Other providers charge trainers for leads. We are building the opposite.
The FASTER Trainer Register launches in 2026: a public register that finds clients for FASTER trainers. Free listing, free leads, no franchise fee, no cut of your income. Every FASTER student gets a place on it. Because a company that says it stands up for trainers should be able to prove it.
Before you choose anything.
No. The Level 2 Gym Instructor qualification is the entry point and has no prerequisites beyond being 16 or over. Every route on this page starts from zero.
Yes. All FASTER courses are online and self-paced with no deadline. Most people study around an existing job, and most complete the combined Level 2 and 3 within 3 to 6 months.
Yes. FASTER qualifications are delivered through FOCUS Awards, a regulated awarding organisation, and recognised by CIMSPA, the professional body UK gym employers use. That is the recognition that matters.
No, and you should be wary of anyone who says it. Employers check that your qualification is Ofqual regulated and CIMSPA recognised. Which company taught you is not the test, whether you can coach is.
Because pressure selling is how the rest of the industry works, and we think it is a poor way to start a professional relationship. The price you see is the price, today and next month. We prefer payment in full and price honestly because of it. Payment plans exist, ask John.
Every course you take with FASTER stays open to you, free, for as long as we exist. Students who qualified in 2007 still come back to refresh material. Your career changes, the material is still yours.
As fast as you can genuinely learn it. Some providers advertise 4 to 6 weeks, and you can move quickly with us too. We just will not pretend speed is the goal. Coaching people is a responsibility, and we assess you properly.
Message John on WhatsApp. Tell him your situation and what you want from the career. He will tell you which route fits, and he will tell you honestly if FASTER is not the right place for you.
Not ready to decide? Sensible.
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Still unsure which route? Ask John.
Tell him where you are and what you want from the career. He will tell you which route fits, what it costs, and whether FASTER is right for you at all. He has been doing this since 2006, and he would rather point you somewhere else than sell you the wrong thing.
How do I become a personal trainer from scratch?
Start with no qualification and finish as a Certified Personal Trainer for £1,250. The route covers Level 2 and Level 3, delivered through FOCUS Awards and recognised by CIMSPA, taught online by the people who wrote it. Self-paced, most finish in 12 to 20 weeks, minimum age 16, no other entry requirements. Payment plans at checkout.