QUALIFICATION OVERVIEW

Our Level 2 Certificate in Gym Instructing course includes everything you need to become a recognised Gym Instructor. This qualification will enable you to work in a gym environment in the health and fitness industry.

It is also the pre-requisite qualification that is needed to be able to enrol onto a Level 3 Personal Training qualification.

No previous experience is required, just an aptitude to want to learn and turn your passion of health, fitness and nutrition into a rewarding career.

OUR UNIQUE BLENDED LEARNING STRUCTURE

Online learning

As soon as you enrol, you will have immediate access to our online learning platform, and you will be contacted by your course support tutor to help get you up and running.

Your online learning platform will host the theory content for your course, all delivered as bitesize classroom-style lessons.

Units include:

• Programming
• Anatomy & Physiology
• How to professionally work with clients
• and even a full exercise and coaching library

You will have life-long access to your online learning platform, giving you a point of reference when you are programming and training clients in a gym environment.

Practical workshops

To go alongside your online learning platform, you will be able to complete your learning by attending our 2 practical workshops which will be done around your online study.

These in-person practical workshops are delivered in excellent gym facilities and will include:

• How to deliver gym-based exercise to clients
• How to structure and deliver a gym programme 
• Delivering exercise to small groups

Our practical workshops are delivered by experienced and leading Personal Trainers, who run their own successful personal training business – allowing you to learn from someone who has extensive experience and knowledge of the industry and working with clients.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU QUALIFY?

As you are working through your studies, your course support tutor will encourage you to prepare for your career as a gym instructor by starting to build the foundations of your fitness business. This will be relevant if you are considering qualifying as a personal trainer in the future.

Once you are fully qualified we will work with you to help find a role as a gym instructor in a gym environment, or help you to continue your learning by advising on the next pathway in your education – this will commonly be onto a Level 3 Personal Training course, though there are further options.

We understand fully that a lot of your questions will come after you are qualified, whether you need help finding employment in a gym or help with programming for clients. That is why we are always at hand to offer support and mentorship as you look to develop your career in the health and fitness industry.

Assessments

It is important when enrolling on to a course that you have a clear timeline to completion and an understanding of what you need to do to pass.

As soon as you enrol, your course support tutor will arrange an Assessment Plan call with you so that they can talk you through each unit of the course and how they are assessed. This will essentially be your timeline to completion and will set you some motivation with your studies and targets to aim for.

Online assessments

Once you complete a unit online, it can be assessed immediately, allowing you to do the assessment whilst the knowledge is fresh and to save you hanging around for an exam. Our online end-of-unit assessments can all be done from the comfort of your own home when you are ready to do so. Your support tutor will be at hand to help with any revision and to get everything organised for you.

Practical assessments

To showcase the knowledge you have learnt from the practical workshops and the online content, as well as allowing you to show us how you will want to be acknowledged as a Gym Instructor, you will build up a body of work by completing a course portfolio and working with a case study client.

This body of work will essentially be based on your training of an individual as an active client – analysing and educating them on their training, lifestyle and nutritional habits.

Your course support tutor will be at hand to help with this every step of the way, this stage of your learning reflects who you are as an individual and it builds up your experience, knowledge and confidence in training and programming for a client.

Your case study work will consist of the following:

• Client consultation and health screening tests
• Gym Programme design
• Gym Programme delivery

Your practical assessment will consist of you delivering a gym programme to your client.

This can be done as a filmed assessment or by an in-person assessment.

Accreditation

The Level 2 Certificate in Gym Instructing qualification is governed by YMCA Awards and is industry recognised, both in the United Kingdom and Worldwide, meaning you can work as a personal trainer anywhere in the world.
Upon completion of our qualifications, you’ll also be able to gain membership with the standardising body for the Health and Fitness Industry – CIMSPA (previously REPS – The Register of Exercise Professionals).

Start your journey into a career in the health and fitness industry…

The Level 2 Certificate in Gym Instructing qualification teaches the fundamental coaching skills that all Gym Instructors (and Personal Trainers) must have good knowledge of to work successfuly in a gym environment.

What will happen when you book your course?

As soon as you book your course, using either the pay in full or instalment option, you will receive a receipt of payment and also your log in details for your online learning platform – so that you can get onto your course content straight away.

Within 24 hours your course support tutor will be in touch with you to show you the first steps of your study and to arrange an onboarding phone-call to allow us to make sure you have a full understanding of how to get started and what you will be working through.

But you can get started before this point, the course content gives a full explanation of each step of your learning journey.