zero to hero

The best personal trainers don’t happen by accident

We deliberately train them that way
welcome to the zero to hero
mentorship programme

We want you to join the best personal trainers in the industry. And stay there. To achieve that,
we train you differently. Better. Here’s how...

Start your course by meeting your FASTER mentor and fellow students. Collect your brand new
iPad. View your course materials.

Now take part in a practical workshop. Don’t forget to film your answer with your iPod. You’ll
want to keep that to revise from.

First up in the Zero to Hero are your level 2 Gym and your level 3 Personal Training to give you
your baseline knowledge and practical capabilities. Then follows the Diploma in Functional
Performance and your skills will really start to take off. This is what makes you different. Better.

Level 2 Gym Instructor

Directed around the learner, this course is delivered primarily online,
with two days of attendance giving you flexibility to choose when
and where you wish to study. What’s more, you will be assigned a
personal mentor to guide you through your studies.

You will learn the necessary qualities to become a true fitness

professional - learn how the body functions to produce movement, a
range of exercise techniques, and be able to create safe and
effective individualised gym programmes for a variety of clients.

This course is a vocationally related qualification (VRQ) at level 2 on

the National Qualifications Framework. It also provides access onto
the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) at level 2.

The course contains the following elements:

• Exercise and fitness knowledge

• Health, safety and professionalism in exercise and
fitness instruction
• Instructing gym

Level 3 Personal Trainer

Personal Trainer is a vocationally related qualification (VRQ), at Level
3 on the National Qualifications Framework and allows access to the
Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) at Level 3

This part of the course is again delivered by distance learning, with

videos to help you learn key practical skills and a further day of
attendance to practice and deliver them.

You will learn the necessary qualities to develop your personal

training business, your knowledge of advanced anatomy, health and
fitness assessment, exercise nutrition for performance and weight
loss, advanced training methods and programme design as well as
advanced equipment use.

The course contains the following elements:

• Health, fitness and Lifestyle Analysis

• Advanced Exercise and Fitness Knowledge
• Advanced Resistance Training
• Advanced Cardiovascular Training
• Nutrition and Weight Management Advice
• Plan, Market and Sell Personal Training Services 2/5
Diploma in Functional Performance (Dip FP)
Now you have the basics of being a personal trainer under your belt,
we set about showing you a whole new world of movement in 3D!

And... as soon as you have your level 3 Personal Trainer certificate,

you can look for work and start practising. Money and experience
before you finish your course!

This part of the course is for trainers who want to know everything!
FASTER shows you the thought process that will give you the ability
to predict every movement sequence, at every joint, in all planes,
with all muscle reactions and then be able to build an assessment
for all of these. You will learn how to build programmes using every
piece of equipment on the market and using your current system of
programming as well as many more that are now popular on the
market.

The course runs over 3 blocks of two days and can be learned one to
one in a venue of your choice, one to three or one to five at venues
around the country.

Module 1 – Movement Analysis

• Translation, Rotation and Joint Feelings

• Sequencing of all movements
• Defining exercise descriptions
• Evaluating and describing assessments
• Evaluating and describing solutions

Module 2 – The Hip Expert

• Building Hip Flexion, Extension, Abduction, Adduction, Internal

and External Rotation
• Defining the roles of all muscles that cross this joint
• Building aggressive and integrated exercises for all the
joint muscles
• Building movement specific assessments for each movement
within the joint, within specific movements and performance
• Building movement specific solutions, including hands on to
each of the movements

Module 3 – The Foot and Ankle Expert

• Building Subtalar, Talocrural and Mid Tarsal (talonavicular

and calcaneocuboid)
• Defining the roles of all muscles that cross this joint specifically
looking at up right motions verse lying motions and the
effect on the muscle
• Building aggressive and integrated exercises for all the joint
muscles
• Building movement specific assessments for each movement
within the joint, within specific movements and performance
• Building movement specific solutions, including hands on to
each of the movements

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Module 4 – The Thoracic Spine Expert

• Building Thoracic Flexion, Extension, Right and Left Lateral Flexion

and Right and Left Rotation
• Defining the roles of all muscles that cross this joint
• Building aggressive and integrated exercises for all the
joint muscles
• Building movement specific assessments for each movement
within the joint, within specific movements and performance
• Building movement specific solutions, including hands on to each
of the movements

Module 5 – The Lumbar, Knee and Shoulder Expert

• Building Knee Flexion, Extension, Abduction, Adduction, Internal

and External Rotation,
• Lumbar Flexion, Extension, Right and Left Lateral Flexion and Right
and Left Rotation and Shoulder Flexion, Extension, Abduction,
Adduction, Internal and External Rotation
• Defining the roles of all muscles that cross these joints including
the Pelvic Floor
• Building aggressive and integrated exercises for all the joint muscles
• Building movement specific assessments for each movement within
the joint, within specific movements and performance
• Building movement specific solutions, including hands on to each of
the movements

Module 6 – Programming Application

• Follow the FASTER Performance System Assessment Template

• Build effective Personal Performance Matrices
• Build and deliver Vague Matrices including over 100 exercises
delivered in a 5 minute block
• Learn every exercise manipulation and how each one affects your
programming. These manipulations include Reps, Sets, Weight,
Volume, Tempo, Gravity Enhancers, Momentum
• Enhancers, Ground Reaction Enhancers, Angles, Heights,
Distances, Speeds, Controls, Feedback and more…

Learn how to use the FASTER Exercise Generator where you can turn
one basic movement in to thousands of variants on that movement.
Build specific programmes for your clients that sit over macro, meso
and micro cycles and fit any goal from strength to speed via
endurance!

Once You Have Done All That...

You will have finished the course! You will have had a lot of practice in
the classroom and more importantly, live in the gym. We really
encourage you to interact with real clients during the course and as
soon as you have your level 2 certificate, get involved with
instructing.

So, you will be ready to spread your wings as a personal trainer. But
we don’t leave it at that.
Our mentors are always on hand if you need to ask questions and get
some support. And that means always! They will be busy delivering
personal training, just the same as you and they can help and give
you the benefit of their experience. That’s the kind of team you want
to be a part of.

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And as if That’s Not Enough, We Sort Your CPD for a Year!*
Once you have done the Dip Functional Performance you are hopefully established and have
experience under your belt. Now all you need to do is keep your knowledge up to date with
Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Not only is this a requirement to keep you on the
Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs), but we advocate keeping yourself sharp with all the
latest industry knowledge and developments.

So, at your convenience, we invite you to attend our two Advanced Functional Trainer courses
which are two days each, to brush up on your functional exercise and biomechanics knowledge.
That’s free of charge - just give us a call and we’ll book you on one of our courses around the
country.

And then, to really develop your skills, we invite you to attend our FASTER graduate only
Extreme course. Again, that’s free of charge.

Get the expert view on topics, arguing the point and then establishing a new way of thinking!
It's a two day workshop which takes you really in-depth into a subject, driven by your feedback
on what FASTER education should do next.

Your workshop will be lead by a top FASTER presenter or leading industry speaker who will 'set
the ball rolling' with their views, allowing you the opportunity to pitch in with your opinion.
Previous favourites have included Extreme Golf, Extreme Powerlifting, Extreme Foot and Ankle.

*Extreme and AFT package part of Zero to Hero 1 to 1 only.

So, If You Want to Join the Best Personal Trainers...

Give our support team a call on 08455 19 16 15 if you need to ask questions or if you think you
are ready to go, just ask to book on and they will be happy to help. Alternatively, go onto the
internet to http://www.fasterglobal.com/ffe5.php and book online.

All the very best luck in your career in the fitness industry!

The FASTER Team