Personal Trainer

People are desperate to get fit; however, without the help of a personal trainer only 2% of health club members actually use the gym on a regular basis. This course is designed to help you learn all there is to know about becoming a Personal Trainer as well as preparing you to start your own business.

Do you love health and fitness? Then this is the course for you. Designed to teach you all there is to know in order to get set up as a freelance trainer and work from home, our Personal Trainer course will teach you how to set up fitness programmes that suit your client's individual needs, it will give you the skills you need to know on how to motivate them and help them achieve their goals as well as giving you all the knowledge on how to acquire your clients and market yourself successfully.

Why not turn your passion for fitness into a successful career? Once you've learned about the practical details of being a personal trainer, our course won't stop there. We'll show you how easy it is to set up your own website, show you how to apply marketing techniques to get the clients as well as providing you with guides and planners to help you keep track of your soon to be business.

Course Syllabus

1. Introduction to fitness and client assessment
2. Anatomy and Phsysiology for Exercise
3. Gym Instructing and health and safety
4. Getting to know your equipment
5. Latest Finest methods and tools
6. Nutrition
7. Weight management
8. Psychology of eating
9. Sports nutrition
10. Muscular strength, sieze and endurance
11. Core strength conditioning
12. Motor skill developing
13. Training in different environments
14. Setting up and running boot camps
15. Setting up your business
16. Marketing yourself successfully

Module sample

Introduction to fitness and client assessment
This module focuses on introducing you to the world of fitness and most importantly teaching you how to successfully interact with your client in order to assess their lifestyle and their approach to health and fitness.

Nutrition and weight management
In this module we will look at how to support your client's new fitness regime with the correct nutritional advice. This will be guidelines you can offer your clients in order to provide them with a rounded approach and to ensure maximum success. You will also learn about weight management and how to correctly introduce it into your client's fitness routine.

Training in different environments
This module is particularly great for those of you wishing to turn your passion for fitness into a business. You will learn how to successfully approach your clients no matter what their environment is. This module gives you the tools you need to feel confident in creating a fitness regime in a gym or outdoors, using nature as part of your tools.

Key features

> 24/7 access for 3 months
> extension availability
> certificate upon successful completion
> Tutor Support Team Monday - Friday
> Live Chat feature

> Internet connection
> Basic computer skills
> Knowledge on using the Internet
> Under age 16 - parental approval needed