• A personal trainer helping a client with their form while exercising
By Sportsability Training

Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training

Start Date: Multiple options (to be agreed once booked)

Total Qualification Time: 430 Hours

Guided Learning Hours: 152 Hours

Format: Hybrid (online & in person)

Course Type: Regulated Qualification

Industry Area: Exercise and Fitness

Venue: Total Fitness, East Riding of Yorkshire & Kingston Upon Hull

Region: East Riding of Yorkshire

Sportsability Training are an experienced provider, delivering first class health and fitness qualifications. Their personal approach with all students ensures that you have the contact time you need to complete your qualification and have the confidence to progress into your chosen career path. 

Their face-to-face approach prepares students for working within the industry, giving students in-gym experience whilst completing their chosen qualification. 

The aim of the Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training is to develop a learners existing knowledge and skills to a professional level in gym instruction, allowing them to become a certified personal trainer. 

£1,300.00
£1,300.00
Tax included.
A personal trainer helping a client with their form while exercising
£1,300.00
£1,300.00

Training Overview

Course details

This course will be delivered as a blended approach by industry experts, ensuring learners come away with not only the qualification, but the knowledge and expertise to thrive in the health and fitness industry.

Key learning outcomes:

  • Further knowledge of anatomy and physiology. 
  • Nutrition for exercise, health and fitness. 
  • Lifestyle and medical factors that affect wellbeing. 
  • Effective communication for client consultations to encourage healthy lifestyle behaviours and strategies for change. 
  • Skills to plan and conduct physical activity sessions with different types of clients in a variety on environments with a range of resources. 
  • Legal and professional requirements for personal training. 
  • How to set up and manage a personal training business on a self-employed basis if they wish to. 
  • How to manage, evaluate and improve own performance. 

Course features

You will be guided through every aspect of the course by your designated tutor, and will have 6x face-to-face sessions within a gym setting to reinforce learning and have in-depth learning time with your tutor. This allows all students to complete their course with the confidence to build their Personal Training business once qualified that is sustainable into the future. Alongside these key face-to-face dates you will be guided through some home-based learning by your tutor on an individual level, ensuring you cover all aspects of the course with full understanding.

Assessment will be via the following:

  • Practical Observations
  • 2x Multiple Choice Theory Exams
  • Worksheets
  • Case Study

Prerequisites - what's required to participate?

A suitable Level 2 qualification in Gym Instructing.
A degree of physical fitness is necessary.

Career Development

Once qualified, you'll be able to pursue a career as a certified Personal Trainer. This could be employed in a health/fitness club setting, or you could be self-employed running your own Personal Training business from a health/fitness facility or from your own premises.

This qualification provides progression onto:

  • Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Instructing Pilates Matwork.
  • Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Teaching Yoga.
  • Level 4 special populations-related qualifications.
    Advanced Apprenticeship in Exercise and Fitness.

Learners may also progress onto qualifications in related sectors, e.g. Sports Massage, or additional branches of the Level 3 Standards, such as Exercise Referral and Leisure Management.

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