• A personal trainer helping two older people with their form while exercising
By T2 Fitness Training & Education

Focus Awards Level 3 Diploma in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training

Course Date:

  • 13 and 20 January 2025
  • 3 and 10 February 2025
  • 10 and 17 March 2025
  • 19 and 26 May 2025

Total Course Time: 1240 Hours

Guided Learning Hours: 850 Hours

Format: Hybrid (online & in person)

Course Type: Regulated Qualification

Industry Area: Exercise & Fitness

Venue: Oxfordshire

Region: Oxfordshire

This course combines the content of the Level 2 and Level 3 courses to fast-track your learning into a single Level 3 Personal Training diploma.

The Level 2 Fitness Instructor course offers insight into the management of health club members in a gym environment, introducing you to training concepts, techniques, and methods to enhance many aspects of fitness. It also covers the day to day running of the gym, the health and safety aspects, and the programme design and delivery.

The Level 3 Personal Training course develops your 1-2-1 skills, offers more depth into advanced training styles, programming for long-term change, assists in behaviour change, highlights nutritional practice, and gives you knowledge on the business of fitness.

T2 Fitness has a unique perspective on quality, and delivers to the highest standards. All of the tutor team have extensive experience in the industry and many have delivered internationally. The entire focus of T2 Fitness is to enhance the fitness community, so you will join a dedicated network of professionals, rather than simply gaining a certificate. 

£2,400.00
£2,400.00
Tax included.
A personal trainer helping two older people with their form while exercising
£2,400.00
£2,400.00

Training Overview

Course details

 The Personal Training Diploma will enhance your career opportunities in the fitness industry.

Key learning outcomes:

  • An understanding of anatomy and physiology
  • How to safely plan exercise
  • How to apply periodisation and long-term programming to exercise
  • Expand knowledge on nutrition to support exercise
  • Application of business skills to the fitness industry
  • Advanced training styles
  • Small group training
  • Health and safety
  • Supporting clients and behaviour change

Course features

This course features 2 weeks days of live face-to-face delivery supported by online learning through a dedicated platform for theory elements. The work is assessed through worksheets which are completed remotely, and practical assessments.

The rough agenda for the attendance is as follows:

Level 2

  • Course Outline
  • Exercise Techniques – Machines, Freeweights, Bodyweight, CV
  • Programming and Consultations
  • Planning and Delivery
  • Assessments

Level 3

  • Course Outline
  • Fitness Testing – Static and Dynamic
  • Advanced Training Techniques
  • Business
  • Nutrition
  • Small Group Training
  • Planning and Delivery
  • Assessments

Prerequisites - what's required to participate?

There are no specific entry requirements.

Career Development

With this qualification you can develop your own business, work in a facility, create an online coaching business, open your own gym, work on location. There are many avenues.You can also use this to develop into a Level 4 trainer and specialise in a specific type of training.

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