Beep Test Academy started when Russell Kempster mentioned to his best mate, Mark Standeven, that he was getting more people asking for personal training for the beep test than he could handle. Russ was already running one-on-one sessions and group training, but he’d started turning clients away, including people too far away to attend in person.
That’s where Mark stepped in. With a background in website development and building online training programs, he took Russ’s training program and built it into something people could follow from anywhere.
Since 2006, Russ and Mark have been refining that program into what’s now the most comprehensive beep test training system available.
Meet the Team
Russell Kempster served with Victoria Police for 14 years, from 1999 to 2013, the last four as a fitness instructor at the Victoria Police Academy, preparing applicants and recruits for their fitness assessments. He started coaching people through the beep test in his own time, and demand quickly outgrew what he could do face to face. Since then he’s refined the program into what it is today and coached more than 8,000 paying clients through it, both online and in person.
Mark Standeven is the co-founder and co-developer behind Beep Test Academy. He and Russ have been best mates since primary school, and when Russ’s coaching outgrew what he could deliver in person, Mark built the program into the structured online course you see today, filming every exercise demonstration himself. He also put it to the test personally, going from Level 10 to Level 12.5 in six weeks at age 40. A lifelong sports and fitness enthusiast, he now runs Beep Test Academy day to day.