Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Gym Instructing and Personal Training

To complete this 21-week programme, you are expected to complete 10-15 hours of home learning each week, complimented by weekly support calls to chart your progress, along with attending face-to-face contact days within a YOUR Academy centre to enhance your practical coaching skills and take your course assessments.

Key learning outcomes:
Level 2 Gym Instructor

• Understand basic human anatomy and physiology to help design safe and effective gym-based exercise programmes.
• Develop an understanding of key customer care skills to develop trust and rapport with gym members.
• Understand the importance of health and safety within the fitness environment.
• Develop good communication and consultation skills with gym members.
• Understand how to plan safe and effective gym-based workouts for various goals and ability levels.
• Enhance your exercise technique, confidence, and instructional skills through face-to-face support in a gym environment.

Level 3 Personal Trainer

• Understand more advanced human anatomy and physiology.
• Develop an understanding of nutrition, and how to analyse a food diary and give nutritional support to clients.
• Understand your scope of practice as a personal trainer and when to refer individuals to other professionals if needed.
• Develop key communication skills that will drive behaviour change and motivation within personal training clients to encourage adherence to key lifestyle behaviours.
• Understand how to design 12-week exercise plans for clients based on the concepts around periodisation and progressive overload.
• Plan your new PT business through designing a bespoke business plan for your new career. From market research and marketing techniques, to pricing structure and financial targeting.

Learn the theoretical side of the course using YOUR Academy's excellent online student portal:

• Guides you through what to complete week by week.
• Gives access to the comprehensive video catalogue, bringing your home learning to life.
• YouTube links, downloads and MOCK papers and assessment discussions are all included.

Weekly support calls to:

• Keep you motivated and on track.
• Give you the chance to ask to questions/consolidate your learning.
• Learn the ‘real-life’ ways of being a gym instructor and personal trainer.

For the practical elements of the course, you will be supported face-to-face to run through key skills needed as a gym instructor/personal trainer, including:

• Instructional skills to teach beginners through to experienced trainers.
• Exercise technique, get your technique assessed as well as analyse other learners’ technique to help spot corrections needed.
• Understand how to monitor exercise intensity to ensure exercise is both safe and effective.

A mix of assessment methods are used throughout this qualification, including:

• Online theory exams
• Paperwork based assignments
• Live practical observations
• Adaptations can be made to individual needs if required.

Through their sister company YOUR Personal Training, you can be offered a guaranteed job placement (not just an interview) as a self-employed personal trainer, opening doors to over 420 gyms and health clubs nationwide.