COACHES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
CDP is booked out for 2024 - waitlist now for 2025
100% online
Join from anywhere in the world with our online programming app and online community to connect with your coaches, peers, submit workout videos & receive feedback from expert coaches.
personalised program
Train and learn the AIM Method to build strong, supple, savages x3 days per week combining lifting, flexibility & bodyweight strength modalities.
live weekly calls
Live coaching calls taught by AIM Academy founder & savage mover Vik Hawksley. Learn the frameworks, principles and deeper insights to train & coach the AIM Method with weekly hot topics.
experiential learning
You learn through your training experience & your peers', the best way to learn as a coach. You get strong, supple, savage yourself whilst getting the tools and experience to coach & mentor your clients to be the same.
Hey Coach!
do you Wanna get strong, supple & savage plus learn to coach your clients to be the same?
CDP is the first step on your journey to becoming a world class coach with AIM Academy.
YOU DEVELOP YOURSELF PHYSICALLY and LEARN THE AIM METHOD TO COMBINE LIFTING, FLEXIBILITY, BODYWEIGHT STRENGTH TRAINING & PROGRESS YOUR CLIENTS TO HIGHER SKILLED WORK
Check out the video to see how you can move better, coach better & develop your passion into an even more effective coaching practice.
I Hope to connect soon, ViK
WHAT IS CDP?
Develop physically and level up your coaching in this 10 week program blending training, coaching, education and mentorship
- Online training & education program for coaches who want to move better, coach better and lead more powerfully
- Group program with personalised programming, video feedback on your workouts, accountability
- Learn proven systems, principles, frameworks to coach and program combining lifting, flexibility & bodyweight strength
- Experiential learning; you learn by doing the work yourself
- Connect & learn hanging out on weekly mentorship & coaching calls with Vik & the AIM coaching team
Whether you do 1:1 or group training, the blueprint and experience you takeaway will help you learn, implement & deliver a top notchAIM style training service to those around you
CDP is perfect for coaches who want to...
- Gain freedom of movement aka – get strong & bendy yourself
- Carve through your confusion and connect the dots combining different modalities in your coaching practice
- Master the detail behind programming, movement selection, cues, progressions & regressions
- Combine lifting, flexibility & bodyweight strength modalities in a single program, catered to individual needs
- Learn a principle based coaching framework for building strong, supple savages that's easy to apply to any individual
- Learn the systems & frameworks of an AIM Coach that I used to build a waitlist business in 18 months
- Save shedloads of time working it all out yourself
- Guide your clients to their individual training goals and guarantee results
To fill your books as a coach or gym owner, be in demand and charge what you’re worth there’s one way to get there fast...
learn from people who already have what you want.
Meet your coach & mentor
Before AIM I knew I wanted to combine the best bits of all different training modalities, I wanted to piece it all together in a way no one else had.
Always having the tools in my toolbox to guide an individual in front of me to their strength, flexibility or skills goal was the dream.
I wasn’t naturally strong or flexible myself.
I didn’t grow up training gymnastics or sports that trained me to be bendy.
All I’ve done is dedicate myself to learning.
I learnt from the best in all different fields, experimented like crazy in my own training figuring out how to blend it all together and get real results for real people.
It’s nothing new under the sun…but it took me ten years!
“Education is cheap, experience is expensive.” – love this quote.
When you have a coach, you learn from experience and in getting experience you’re saving yourself from walking a path that might not lead to where you want to go.
Guarantee you will get there much quicker than you would alone.
That’s what CDP is really about…sharing my experience and helping you grow.
Whether you’re just getting into the game or have been in the game a while; I guarantee you’ll be stronger, bendy-er yourself and a more confident coach with easy to apply frameworks in your toolset.
You’ll stop second guessing your coaching and take your craft next level.
Apply to learn more. The next step is to hang out and get to know each other on a zoom call.
Hope to connect soon,
Vik
what you learn
We pull the curtain back on the AIM Method and you learn how to train and coach the Foundations & Fundamentals of Strength & Movement. From a solid Foundation, badass movers are built and that’s what we teach you to do via your own training and classroom based learning.
You learn:
- A systemised Approach to Building Foundations & Fundamentals: the Must Haves to master complex strength, flexibility, skills work. Language, principles & process we us on everybody we work with coaches included
- The Importance of Breathing & Lat Activation what, why & how
- Upper body development: biomechanics, principles, processes, exercise selection & execution
- Lower body development: biomechanics, principles, processes, exercise selection & execution
- Program Design & Frameworks for lifting, flexibility, bodyweight strength, including exercise selection & cues. Includes how to personalise Strength & Movement programs for clients in 1:1 and group scenarios
- Art of Coaching: Frameworks & systems of how to intelligently + effectively apply all the above in the real world with real people
- Small Details that Yield Huge Gains; the details most coaches miss that give clients big wins
- Frameworks Beyond Foundations;
– Personalised Onboarding Framework to Connect, Assess & Educate Clients
– Mentorship Framework for Goal Setting & Checking In
BONUS deep dives into programming and foundation movements
“i Learnt alot about programming & structuring plans for clients
Learnt a lot about programming and structuring a plan for clients whilst picking up great cues and communication skills.
AIM Academy CDP also helped me with my ability to communicate and plan as a coach.
“a life & career changing experience
CDP was a very good learning experience for me as a coach and also as an individual who felt stuck at a certain level and wanted to break the plateau to keep improving skills & strength.
It gave me a better understanding on how to build foundation and fundamental from the start no matter what level people are at.
“a principles & intention based program to give clients more knowledge, results, clarity
CDP is not just another program with exercises, sets, reps & progressive overload but an explanation of how principles and intention can be used to consistently and clearly to give your clients more knowledge, results,clarity
I joined CDP to help fill gaps in my body weight and functional training but came out with a whole new system for coaching, programming and helping my clients and myself.
“I feel stronger, more flexible, and have greater knowledge”
CDP helped me grow as a coach and in my own training.
I feel stronger, more flexible, and have greater knowledge of why we do the movements that we do and how important laying the foundations is when it comes to training.
“6 referrals in 4 weeks”
I learnt how to better structure programs. Knowing the difference and importance of programming foundation and fundamental movements has been a big take away.
I've implemented majority of the movements learnt in 1on1 and group sessions which alot of members have enjoyed.I received 6 referrals in 4 weeks which is from delivering sessions that focus on the foundational and fundamental movements.
“CDP helped me grow”
CDP helped me grow; both with how I train myself and others.
The homework feedback was priceless! It's definitely helped me improve my lower body strength and upper body mobility. Plus it improved my business.
“I AM OVERWHELMED WITH NEW CLIENTS!”
I am overwhelmed with new clients! I can’t begin to explain how this has changed my life. Single handedly the best investment I have ever made.
I’m fully pushing the whole programme to every single one of my clients. The feedback I’ve been getting is incredible so it’s changing many lives in my coaching business too! I qualified as a coach in the uk & what I learnt from the CDP is miles ahead.
“Being in the right environment is everything.”
I tired and tried to find a place that didn’t follow ‘traditional,’ typical gym machines or a ramped-up CrossFit facilities. I had reached a dead end. I felt frustrated and hopeless.
Being in the correct environment is everything and Vik and his Tribe are a living, breathing example of what the right environment can do for a group of people.
AIM Academy for coaches who want to excel and stand out from the masses.”
“AIM is where my coaching career truly began...”
Coming straight out of PT school I realised there was a whole world of movements and training styles I had zero experience with nor knowledge of how to coach them to my clients…it felt like this huge wall I had to climb with no handholds.
AIM felt free of the ego and ‘bro culture’ that exists in so many gyms. I felt comfortable asking ‘stupid’ questions. I am now confidently coaching my clients through a wide variety of movement and life goals, incorporating the philosophy and skills that I have learnt from AIM.”
“CDP put me right where i needed: walking the talk”
It's easy to fall into the trap of giving giving giving as a coach & neglecting my own training, potential, and capabilities. This program put me right where I need to be; walking the talk
It's been awesome bouncing off other coaches and getting so much out of the quality questions being asked in the group.AIM are legends and Vik is a fantastic human to learn from who truly practices what he preaches and inspire and motivate us all.
“Tremendous experience! CDP expanded my exercise vocabulary”
I have a system to better train & coach clients - away from fat loss & hypertrophy programs. I can help them with bodyweight strength, lifting, flexibility & to move better.
“My mobility and flexibility improved a lot ”
AIM Academy CDP was everything I expected and more..
My mobility and flexibility improved a lot and I built a strong foundation in quality movement.I am eager to see the results in my clients.”
FAQs
There’s only one program in 2024, kicking off 2 September. To keep in the loop when we announce future dates, full in the application and our office magicians will be in touch when new dates are announced.
You train three sessions per week and attend a live call (or watch it back on demand)
Apply above and the team will be in touch to let you know when Vik is scheduling chats with interested coaches.
Yes. every walking talking badass in the AIM Tribe and in our AIM Coaches’ Academy starts with this program.
Learning how to build clients from the ground up in quality strenght & movement is key to every coaches’ success.
We educate coaches in more complex works in our
