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By T2 Fitness Training & Education

YMCA Level 3 Diploma in Exercise Referral

Start Date: 25 January 2025

Total Qualification Time: 367 Hours

Guided Learning Hours: 230 Hours

Format: In person

Course Type: CPD

Industry Area: Exercise and Fitness

Venue: Blundson Fitness+, The Ridge, Broad Blunsdon, Swindon, SN26 7AS

Region: Swindon and Wiltshire

This course will provide you with an essential qualification for progressing to Level 4 and beyond. Becoming an exercise referral specialist enables you to tailor fitness programmes to support people living with chronic conditions or those returning from injury. Through enhanced skills and knowledge gained on the course, you’ll be able to help them improve or manage their condition through effective exercise programmes. You will also be able to sign up to a GP referral scheme, providing you with the opportunity of an additional revenue stream. If you got into fitness to help others, this particular course will truly provide you with an enjoyable and incredibly rewarding career.

T2 Fitness is one of the leading training providers in the UK and also operates in select locations around the world. We have a wealth of experience throughout the tutor team, and deliver with an unrivalled level of passion and expertise. We are trusted by some of the UK's most prestigious health and fitness brands.

£700.00
£700.00
Tax included.
A nurse helping a person on a rowing machine
£700.00
£700.00

Training Overview

Course details

This course will provide you the knowledge and skills required to work with a range of clients, helping them manage chronic illnesses and conditions like arthritis, depression and diabetes.

  • Professional Practice - You will gain the knowledge and understanding of the exercise referral process, and your role in it.
  • Medical Conditions for Exercise Referral - You will learn a broad range of medical conditions – from hypertension to obesity to anxiety to join replacements and more – and how to prescribe safe and effective exercise for them.
  • Planning, Programming and Delivering Exercise for Referral Clients - You will enhance your Personal Trainer knowledge and adapt effective exercise programmes and sessions for referral clients.
  • Applied Anatomy and Physiology - You will enhance your knowledge of anatomy and physiology, enabling you to apply programme designs for a range of clients.
  • Nutrition to Support Physical Activity - You will cover the key nutritional principles of healthy eating to support client goals.

Course features

  • Instant access to some course materials, via an online learning portal
  • Dedicated tutor support from our team of expert fitness educators
  • Opportunity to train face-to-face from our training centre
  • Access to career support and mentoring throughout your career, to help you succeed
  • Full Level 3 Diploma in Exercise Referral

Prerequisites - what's required to participate?

Must have completed a Level 2 Fitness Instructor Course, but ideally will have complete a Level 3 Personal Trainer Course

Career Development

Covered in more detail on the course, this qualification entitles you to become part of a referral schemes, such as ones used by GPs, the NHS or private practices. You will find this work extremely rewarding and it offers an opportunity to integrate the scheme into your Personal Trainer business.

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