Cert // 01
Master Trainer
Top-tier trainer certification — held continuously since 2008.
Team Active
Growing Team
— The Team
The team behind the method.
Eighteen years of practice. A growing team of coaches, partner physicians, and operators — all running the same standard.
— FOUNDER · 01
Founder / Master Trainer
Derek Burns Sr.
Navy Veteran · 18-Year Practitioner · Master Trainer
Navy veteran. Eighteen-year practitioner. Former competitive bodybuilder. Featured on FOX 5 DC and published in Thrive, Huffington Post, and Northern Virginia Magazine.
Cert.
Master Trainer
Plus PICP Level 1.
Method
BioSignature
Hormone-pattern analysis.
Service
U.S. Navy
Gulf War + Op. Deliberate Force.
Stage
5 Years Comp.
Bodybuilding stage experience.
Credentials
Earned. Verified.
Every cert below is current. Every claim is checkable.
Cert // 02
BioSignature
Hormone-pattern body composition analysis. Practitioner-level.
Cert // 03
PICP Level 1
Poliquin International Certification Program — strength + conditioning.
Cert // 04
Nutrition Coach
Nationally certified nutrition coach — protocol-design level.
Cert // 05
U.S. Navy Veteran
Gulf War + Operation Deliberate Force. Discipline carried into practice.
Medical Wellness
Our partner physicians.
The medical arm of AfterBurns is run by board-certified, multi-state licensed physicians specializing in functional and integrative medicine. They review every client's labs and oversee every protocol.
We don't publish our medical team publicly — but every client's labs are reviewed by the physician overseeing their protocol.
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Train with
the method.
Every session built on real data. Every program reviewed by the team that wrote the standard.
18Years of practice
05Active credentials
100%Lab-informed programming
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