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FASTER Specialist · Level 3 · Est. 2006

Fitness Programming Specialist

Learn to research, then use the research to challenge the industry's passed-down, made-up systems. Working through the tasks with John, you get pushed to learn the real facts, then design programming driven by experience and science.

✓14-day money-back before course start
✓Questions? Message John direct — real person
No sales calls · No fake deadlines · No pressure · The prices are the prices · The founder answers the WhatsApp

What is a fitness programming course?

Fitness Programming Specialist teaches you to find and evaluate research yourself, then use it to test the programming systems the industry passes down without checking. It costs £1,800 paid in full, or £300 deposit and 12 monthly payments of £150, plan total £2,100. You work through the tasks with John, who pushes you to the facts rather than the folklore, and you finish able to design programmes built on experience and evidence that you can defend to anyone. It counts as active learning, so your PT Manager access runs while you study, and free return access is included for life.

What you get

What you get

Research as a skill
Learn to find and read the research yourself, so you stop taking the industry's word for it.
Challenge the made-up stuff
Use what you find to question the passed-down systems everyone repeats without checking.
Pushed to the real facts
Working through the tasks with John, you get pushed, properly, to learn what actually holds up.
Programming with a backbone
Finish by designing programmes driven by experience and science, not by what you were handed.
John, directly
A real tutor supports you all the way through. Ask anything. No question is too small.
Free return access. Forever.
Everything you cover stays yours. Come back to any of it, for free, for as long as we exist.
Counts as active learning.
Enrolled here, your PT Manager access runs, and passing keeps it running.
How it works

How it works

1
Enrol
Sign up online and start at your own pace.
2
Learn to research
Build the skill to find and evaluate the evidence yourself.
3
Challenge and check
Work through the tasks with John and test what the industry tells you.
4
Write real programming
Design programmes built on experience and science.
Who it's for

Who Fitness Programming Specialist is for

Fitness Programming Specialist is the FASTER specialist course for trainers who are tired of repeating programming they were handed and never questioned.

It teaches you to research, then use that research to challenge the made-up systems the industry passes down. Working through the tasks with John, you get pushed to learn the real facts and then design programming that stands on experience and science.

If you want to write programmes you can defend to anyone, start here. And with free return access, everything you cover stays with you for good.

How it works for you

How long it takes

Self-paced, as long as your life needs.

How you learn

Read, watch and listen. Every lesson has text, and most have video and a voice-over.

How you pass

Ask John how this course is assessed. He answers.

Easy on the brain

Short lessons, one point each. Pick up where you left off on any device.

When you are stuck

A real tutor answers you. WhatsApp John if you are not sure.

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.
★★★★★
"I've learned not to take things for face value, not to just believe what educators are saying but how to do the research, find the answers and science backed evidence on why we do what we do."
Chris Cooke · Google review

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You are here

  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

John Hardy, founder of FASTER

Not sure if Fitness Programming Specialist is for you?

If you are not sure it fits, ask. John will tell you honestly whether this is the right step or whether something else suits you better. No deadline, no pressure. The founder answers the WhatsApp.

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A trainer's product is invisible: it gets judged on a feeling. Confident trainers read whether they are creating that feeling, and that is a learnable skill.

Programming Specialist

Trace a training rule back to its evidence before you build a programme on it

Call to authority, history, region, nature: the information viruses of the fitness industry. Research skills are the immunity, and easier to build than sold.

Workouts & Exercises

Skeletons and Blocks: How to Build Programmes on the Spot

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