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About Russell Kempster

Russell has been involved in the fitness industry since 1988 when he first started teaching karate classes to children. In 1994 he won the Australian Open Karate Championships, placed second at the Oceania Karate Championships and won a gold and silver medal at the World (WSKU) Karate Championships in Japan.

Russell’s Experience

Russell is a registered personal trainer with Fitness Australia and is an accredited group fitness instructor, personal trainer and self defence instructor. He is also a qualified workplace assessor and trainer.

For the last past 5 years Russell has helped over 300 applicants with their preparation to join Victoria Police with a 99.5% success rate!

Russell’s Expertise

Russ spent 12 years as a police officer with Victoria Police. The last four years of that time was spent at the Victoria Police Academy as a physical skills instructor, where he taught everything from fitness to firearms.

He has trained police applicants, as well as recruits undergoing their initial training, experienced serving police officers and was even called on by Victoria Police to help train other would be police instructors in the area of defensive tactics.

Russ has conducted official police applicant fitness tests at the police academy, the very same test you may well be attending soon. He has tested hundreds of police recruits and serving police officers under the very same tests currently in place. I think it’s fair to say, Russell is an expert in the area of Victoria Police Fitness Tests.

Russell’s Passion

Russell is passionate about helping his clients achieve their dream of becoming police officers. Just speak to any body that has trained with him and you will see just how much additional advice, guidance and help he gives and his passion is pretty clear for all to see.

Although Prime Motion Fitness specialises in helping police applicants and recruits with their fitness test needs, Russell has been found on many occasions over a cup of coffee or even at an extra free class giving selection panel interview advice to help clients get ready and give them a head start on their academy training.

Advice and mentoring doesn’t stop once you get into the academy as many clients continue to call on Russell during their academy training for extra help and is a testament to his experience, expertise and passion for what he does and I’m really glad to be a part of it.

Prime Motion Fitness History

Prime Motion Fitness was founded by Russell Kempster as a personal training business to help people achieve their fitness goals. The business was being run as a part time venture as Russell was working full time as a police officer with the Victoria Police.

Russell started off training people from his home but it didn’t take long before a training studio was required. So Russell then opened a Personal Training Studio in Lilydale which helped him to service the ever growing number of clients he was training.

Then when Russell started working at the Victoria Police Academy in 1997 as a physical skills instructor and while running the fitness test for applicants, Russell noticed that there were people failing the tests, but not because they weren’t fit (although some weren’t), but because they weren’t Police Fitness Test Fit. It was also apparent that lots of people lacked an understanding of the proper techniques and strategies to maximise their scores.

So Russell started working with police, and other emergency service, applicants in his spare time teaching them the correct techniques and strategies and getting them to follow a specific program that he developed especially for the tests.

This started producing great results especially with people who had initially failed the police fitness test and were returning to pass the second time around.

As the word strated to spread, among police and other emergency service applicants, that a genuine expert in this field was offering specialised training, Russell’s services quickly became sought after by those wanting to give themselves the best available preparation.

This is when Russell stopped training people for general fitness and started working only with people trying to get into the police force or other emergency related services.

Back in the late 90′s the fitness test was an obstacle course and Russell decided that in order to give his clients the best training then they needed to be able to practice on the obstacle course as the best type of training is the most specific for the outcome required.

The problem was that civillians (non police members) were not allowed to use the only course at the Victoria Police Academy and this was the only one in Australia.

So Russell had a brilliant idea, he’d build one myself!

He roped in his best mate Mark plus a few other people to help him build a replica obstacle course. This goes a long way to understanding the philosophy of Russell and Prime Motion Fitness to provide the absolute best training available.

Then back in the middle of 2010 when the Fitness Test was changed and with the Victoria Police on a huge recruiting drive, he joined forces with his long time best mate Mark Standeven.