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John Hardy

Founder, FASTER Health and Fitness

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Become a Personal Trainer You Can Learn What Keeps A Client Coming Back, Before You Ever Take One 28 August 2026 Coaching & Mindset Turn 'I Need To Sort My Diet' Into A Plan Your Client Believes In 28 August 2026 Business & Clients Today's Two Posts Both End Up In The Same Place: PT Manager's Programme Builder 28 August 2026 Research Learn How To Find Information Without Having To Remember It All 27 August 2026 Business & Clients A Client's Progress Only Counts If You Can Find It Again 27 August 2026 Chronic Illness & Health The Exercises That Suit Each Trimester, So You Can Say Yes With Confidence 26 August 2026 Become a Personal Trainer The Eight-Step System For Showing A Client Their First Exercise 26 August 2026 Business & Clients PT Manager Shows The PAR-Q Flag Before The First Exercise Gets Demonstrated 26 August 2026 Business & Clients PT Manager's Live Analyser Shows A Progression Working And Backs The Number Up 25 August 2026 Workouts & Exercises Fourteen Ways To Progress Any Exercise Before You Reach For A New One 25 August 2026 Become a Personal Trainer Four Plain Checks Tell You If A Client's Test Result Means Anything 25 August 2026 Business & Clients You Get The Programme Builder Inside PT Manager The Day You Pass A Course 24 August 2026 Biomechanics You Already Have Enough Exercises, You Just Need Four Ways To Use Each One 24 August 2026 Become a Personal Trainer What Muscles Work In A Squat, And The Four Steps That Tell You 23 August 2026 Injury & Pain Build A Game Around The Movement Your Client Avoids 23 August 2026 Business & Clients Your Client Can Pay Into Your Own Stripe Account 23 August 2026 Become a Personal Trainer You Can Tell A Real Nutrition Claim From A Sales Pitch, No Degree Needed 22 August 2026 Business & Clients Checking A Claim And Checking A Movement Use The Same Skill, And PT Manager Shows Both 22 August 2026 Workouts & Exercises Add Pilates Strength Work To Your Sessions, No Full Pilates Qualification Needed 22 August 2026 Business & Clients Adapting Today's Session and Building the Route Back to Performance Are the Same Job, and PT Manager Holds Both 21 August 2026 Sports Science Level 2/3 Names Six Starting Points, So the Session Fits the Client in Front of You 21 August 2026 Injury & Pain Be the Trainer Other Trainers Refer Their Hard Cases To 21 August 2026 Business & Clients Checking a source and building the session round it are the same job, and PT Manager is where that reasoning lives 20 August 2026 Sports Science Level 2/3 asks you to spot a credible source. FASTER Sports Scientist teaches you to go and find one, one to one 20 August 2026 Research Check the source, not the argument, when a client's video contradicts you. Level 2/3 already taught you how 20 August 2026 Business & Clients Reading a joint properly and building a programme that survives Hyrox fatigue use the same eyes. PT Manager is where both live 19 August 2026 Injury & Pain Read a joint's real range of motion properly, and know straight away whether it's injury risk or just how she's built 19 August 2026 Sports Science She's entered a Hyrox and brought a plan she found online. Running it through the system beats coaching it blind 19 August 2026 Chronic Illness & Health Know the guidelines for a pregnant client properly, and you can say yes to her with confidence 18 August 2026 Coaching & Mindset Ask about menopause the way you already ask about everything else, and a client's biggest variable stops going unspoken 18 August 2026 Business & Clients Pregnant, postnatal or moving through menopause, a client's body changes faster than any form. PT Manager reads what's true about her today 18 August 2026 Business & Clients Today's session and the whole season are the same question, answered at two different distances 17 August 2026 Sports Science Plan the season before the session, so your athlete peaks when the competition is 17 August 2026 Coaching & Mindset Match the session to the body in front of you, not the plan you wrote last night 17 August 2026 Business & Clients The nod and the no-show are the same client talking two different ways 16 August 2026 Workouts & Exercises Turn the cardio block into pad work and your client asks for the hard bit 16 August 2026 Coaching & Mindset Read the shoulders, the breath and the pace to know whether your cue landed 16 August 2026 Business & Clients What the guard and the soreness have in common: neither one gets said out loud 15 August 2026 Workouts & Exercises Dose the soreness on purpose and your new client comes back for session two 15 August 2026 Injury & Pain The rep they always cut short is protecting something you can't see 15 August 2026 Business Run the whole business on one free system and keep your own money 14 August 2026 Programming Why your sessions are good but forgettable 14 August 2026 Coaching & Mindset One question gets your client to name the barrier that is really ending sessions 14 August 2026 Coaching & Mindset Why some personal trainers have confidence, and it has nothing to do with believing in their own programme 13 August 2026 Business & Clients Trainers are paying too many people too much money for too little, and we are taking as many of those payments away as we can 13 August 2026 Become a Personal Trainer You cannot fit a leg press in the boot of your car. Here is how you still train a client properly in a park, a garage or a spare room 13 August 2026 Workouts & Exercises A plateaued client doesn't need a new programme, just a bit more load. The industry sells periodisation for what's really a few extra kilos 12 August 2026 Business & Clients Adding load only helps if you can see what it's doing to that exact joint, live. Guessing at either one wastes the session 12 August 2026 Biomechanics Read the hips in front of you and they will tell you that client's squat depth 12 August 2026 Business & Clients A slow lowering phase and a guarded client are two different problems. The PT Manager reads both from the same camera 11 August 2026 Injury & Pain A client guarding against movement isn't being difficult. Their nervous system is doing exactly what it's built to do 11 August 2026 Core & Pelvic Floor The deep core is an anatomical term, not a training method 10 August 2026 Workouts & Exercises Squat depth is a hip crease passing a kneecap. The industry turned a joint angle into a personality test 10 August 2026 Business & Clients A squat's depth and a hip's new range are two different arguments. The PT Manager settles both from the same camera 10 August 2026 Coaching & Mindset Some clients aren't 'just flexible'. They were taught to move well, and that is a skill you can coach too 10 August 2026 Biomechanics Five ways to get movement at one joint 10 August 2026 Injury & Pain Abdominal exercise does not make diastasis worse 10 August 2026 Sports Science A fast first step is a shin angle you can see, coach and film 9 August 2026 Business & Clients The one camera feed that catches a brace slipping and a shin angle landing 9 August 2026 Biomechanics Bracing is a tensed stomach before a lift. The industry built a cult around one muscle 9 August 2026 Coaching & Mindset Bits of paper, a pile of Google Docs, or £60 a month. Programming for clients deserves better 8 August 2026 Programming Specialist Trace a training rule back to its evidence before you build a programme on it 8 August 2026 Workouts & Exercises A balanced session is a push for a pull, and the front of the legs for the back. Learn the rule, then earn the fun of breaking it 8 August 2026 Business & Clients A personal training app that shows the client the movement, in the trainer's own name 7 August 2026 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 7 August 2026 Workouts & Exercises A hip hinge is bending at the hips. The industry made a fortune pretending it is harder than that 7 August 2026 FTE Challenge your own bias for a year and watch what it does to your coaching 29 July 2026 Sports Science & S&C Is a Level 4 S&C worth it? The certificate is the cheap part 28 July 2026 Core & Pelvic Floor Your Level 3 mentioned the pelvic floor once. Your clients noticed. 26 July 2026 MSAS What does a movement screen actually tell you about the client in front of you? 26 July 2026 Programming Specialist Your client gives you three hours a week. How much of it deserves a warm-up? 26 July 2026 Coach Level Feel like you should know more? What confident trainers actually know 25 July 2026 Injury to Performance Cleared to train, refused by trainers: how to help the clients others turn away 25 July 2026 Business Qualified, quiet diary? Check your OMF 24 July 2026 Train to be a Trainer How to become a personal trainer in the UK: every step, every price 22 July 2026 Injury & Pain Pain Science: The Role of the Non-Medical Trainer 5 November 2024 Workouts & Exercises Skeletons and Blocks: How to Build Programmes on the Spot 27 October 2024 Coaching & Mindset Personal Trainer Imposter Syndrome, Part 4: Owning Your Authority 15 October 2024 Coaching & Mindset Personal Trainer Imposter Syndrome, Part 3: Programme Design 1 October 2024 Coaching & Mindset Personal Trainer Imposter Syndrome, Part 2: A Programme Design Checklist 17 September 2024 Coaching & Mindset Personal Trainer Imposter Syndrome, Part 1: Programme Design 3 September 2024 Sports Science The Needs Analysis: The Cornerstone of S&C Practice 20 August 2024 Workouts & Exercises 5 Core Momentum Trainer Exercises 25 July 2024 Injury & Pain Everybody Hurts — If You Listen to Personal Trainers 16 July 2024 Workouts & Exercises 5 Favourite GRIPR Exercises 29 June 2024 Workouts & Exercises 6 Exercises With GRIPR and Suspension Trainers 3 June 2024 Biomechanics Anatomy and Function of the Foot and Ankle 8 May 2024 Research Applying Motor Learning Theory to Personal Training 12 April 2024 Coaching & Mindset How to Spot a Dodgy Fitness Technique or System 17 March 2024 Biomechanics Falling Into the Biomechanical Cure Hole 30 December 2023 Biomechanics Biomechanics Are Misunderstood 4 December 2023 Injury & Pain The Biopsychosocial Filter, Part 2 8 November 2023 Injury & Pain The Biopsychosocial Filter, Part 1 13 October 2023 Sports Science Boosting Strength With Plyometrics: A Guide 17 September 2023 Become a Personal Trainer Now Is the Time to Become a Personal Trainer 22 August 2023 Injury & Pain Falling for Curing 10 May 2023 Coaching & Mindset Putting the Fat Personal Trainer Debate to Bed 14 April 2023 Business & Clients How to Find Personal Training Clients From the Gym Floor 19 March 2023 Business & Clients Finding a Personal Training Client's True Goals 21 February 2023 Business & Clients How to Find the Personal Training Clients You Want 26 January 2023 Business & Clients Morning Blues and Fitness Business Anxiety 31 December 2022 Biomechanics Foot: The Lot of You — My Relationship with the Foot and the Industry 5 December 2022 Biomechanics Functional Anatomy and Biomechanics: How to Learn Useable Anatomy 9 November 2022 Workouts & Exercises Can a Functional Trainer Deadlift? 14 October 2022 Workouts & Exercises A Functional Training Circuit Workout 18 September 2022 Workouts & Exercises A Functional Training Workout Using Medicine Balls 23 August 2022 Business & Clients Get More Personal Training Clients 28 July 2022 Business & Clients Grief, Loss and Your Fitness Business 2 July 2022 Business & Clients How to Break Clients and Lose Money 6 June 2022 Sports Science Improving Sprint Speed: A Science-Based Approach 15 April 2022 Chronic Illness & Health The Benefits of a Level 3 Pre & Postnatal Training Course 22 February 2022 Sports Science Level 4 Strength & Conditioning Coach Certification: A Guide 27 January 2022 Business & Clients Building a Long-Term Personal Training Business 1 January 2022 Business & Clients Marketing Content for Personal Trainers 6 December 2021 Workouts & Exercises Medicine Ball and Kettlebell Workouts 19 September 2021 Business & Clients Messages That Find Clients 24 August 2021 Business & Clients Misunderstanding Customer Experience: The Costly Mistakes 29 July 2021 Sports Science The Science of Muscle Hypertrophy for Trainers 7 June 2021 Become a Personal Trainer A New Career as a Personal Trainer 12 May 2021 Sports Science Is It Time Personal Trainers Stopped Stretching Clients? 23 February 2021 Coaching & Mindset Success Series: Truly Knowing Yourself and Your Clients 28 January 2021 Coaching & Mindset How Not to Finish a Client Consultation 2 January 2021 Business & Clients Personal Training Promotion Ideas 7 December 2020 Business & Clients Writing Social Media Posts That Attract Personal Training Clients 11 November 2020 Injury & Pain Posture, Fascia, Pain and Other Manipulations 16 October 2020 Injury & Pain How to Train a Client in Pain 20 September 2020 Research How to Read Scientific-Sounding Fitness Blogs 25 August 2020 Research Research in the Fitness Industry 30 July 2020 Business & Clients A 6-Step Process to Keep You Current and Grow Your Niche 4 July 2020 Biomechanics Strength and Conditioning: Kinematics and Kinetics 13 May 2020 Sports Science Why Personal Trainers Invest in Strength & Conditioning Courses 17 April 2020 Workouts & Exercises A Tri-Set for All Planes of Motion, With Hops and Pushes 22 March 2020 Biomechanics Understanding Knee Abduction 9 December 2019 Chronic Illness & Health Weight Loss and GLP-1 Jabs: Programming for Trainers 18 October 2019 Become a Personal Trainer What Does a Personal Trainer Do? 22 September 2019 Become a Personal Trainer What Do I Need to Do to Be a Personal Trainer? 27 August 2019

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