Instructors

Managing Director and Course Instructor: Chris HASEMAN

There are not many who can claim the experience and success that Chris has achieved in his career as both a professional athlete and fitness trainer. From Physical Skills Instructor for the Qld Police Service, Athletic Performance Coach for the Brisbane Broncos through to being regarded as Australia's premier MMA fighter competing around the world including the infamous UFC are just some of the experiences and achievements that Chris can attest to. Chris has a wealth of knowledge and experience that he now enjoys sharing to those students aspiring to succeed within the fitness industry. Chris has an ability to explain and demonstrate knowledge and skills with a real life understanding. Our students benefit from having an instructor that has personally trained some of Australia's most successful and recognised athletes.

Click here to view a highlight video of Chris Haseman's MMA Career

Course Instructor: Hayden LUMSDEN

With more than 20 years of experience in the fitness industry, Hayden brings a wealth of knowledge to the FIT classroom. Not only has he owned a successful personal training studio for five years, he has also been an Olympic weightlifting coach, strength and conditioning coach consultant, research development consultant for Calibre Strength, and played for the AFL Kangaroos Football Club. A qualified personal trainer, he is well-rounded when it comes to using a variety of training methods, and has accreditations for kettlebells, spinning, rowing and boxing, as well as qualifications in applied functional sporting anatomy.

Guest Instructors

Through FIT's strong networks within the industry, FIT students will have an opportunity to learn from various guest instructors throughout their course.

Dan Baker – Strength and Conditioning

Dan Baker is the National President of the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association and is one of the world’s leading authorities on strength and power training for sports athletes. He has been the Broncos strength and power training coach since 1995 and FIT students are lucky enough to experience one of his highly sought after lectures and hands on training.

Brad Sheppard - Business for Personal Trainers

Brad Sheppard is the Owner of Brisbane's largest and most Successful Personal Training team. He is also the Co-Founder of Create PT Wealth and has featured in Andrew May’s book, Switched On. Brad has an extensive background in the fitness industry and is well known for being one of the highest paid personal trainers! He was awarded the Prestigious Queensland Fitness Professional of the Year Award in 2006 and continues to provide outstanding mentoring opportunities to up and coming personal trainers and fitness business owners.

Jason Urbanowicz - Business for Personal Trainers

Jason Urbanowicz is the Co-Founder and Director of Create PT Wealth. He has been in the fitness industry for over 16 years and has written two books. Along with Brad Sheppard, Jason provides outstanding mentoring opportunities to up and coming personal trainers and fitness business owners.

Brendan O'Reilly - Mastery of Exercises

Brendan O'Reilly began his career in the fitness industry as a gym instructor at UQ Sport, whilst studying for his Bachelor of Applied Science at the University of Queensland. Brendan furthered his studies at the Australian Institute of Applied Science, specialising most of his research around cutting-edge strength and conditioning methods for martial artists. Brendan has competitive experience in amateur boxing, Olympic freestyle wrestling, submission grappling and currently fights professionally in Mixed Martial Arts. He has won numerous titles and operates a successful martial arts based personal training business out of HaMMA Arena.

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