Personal Fitness Trainer

Overview

This course is designed to enable the fitness instructor and coach to develop skills in providing a dedicated one-to-one service for health and fitness clients.

About Personal Training

Personal trainers assess the wants and needs of their clients with regard to health and fitness. They measure clients’ present fitness levels and design fitness programmes and regimes which are tailored to each individual. Providing a comprehensive service, the therapist is a motivator, nutrition advisor, lifestyle consultant, and fitness instructor.

About Our Personal Fitness Trainer Course

Our Personal Fitness Trainer course covers the aspects of personal training essential to providing a professional and knowledgeable service. Testing, evaluation, and progression form an integral part of the course.

What Could I Do After Taking This Fitness Training Course?

Work as a fitness instructor. After successfully completing our Personal Fitness Trainer course , you could apply for jobs as a fitness instructor in gyms or community centres, earning up to £21,000+*/year.

Continue your training. If you wish to further your personal trainer courses and education in personal fitness, you could study for relevant BTEC HNCs or HNDs, foundation degrees, degrees and postgraduate qualifications.

Build your career. If you wish to increase your responsibilities and build your personal training career, you could gain a personal trainer qualification to become a self-employed personal trainer, or work in health clubs, resorts and spas, or on cruise ships. You could even move into sports physiotherapy.

*Source: Payscale.com, Oct. 2012

Modules

Review of anatomy, kinesiology & exercise physiology

Exercise prescription

Qualities of the personal fitness trainer

The benefits of having a personal trainer

Psychology of fitness & the client

Writing training programmes

Physical fitness

Motivational techniques

Motor fitness

Sport-related fitness

Sales & marketing

Remedial fitness

Contracts with the client

Sports injuries & rehabilitation

Business plans

One-to-one training

Client care

Appraisal, screening, testing & evaluation of health & fitness

For a more detailed syllabus on this course, click here

Requirements

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.