QUALIFICATION OVERVIEW

Our Level 3 Diploma in Gym Instructing and Personal Training course includes everything you need to become an industry recognised Personal Trainer.

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 ONLINE ONLY COURSE STRUCTURE

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:

• Nutrition
• Programming
• Anatomy & Physiology
• Business set up
• 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 working with your paying clients as a Personal Trainer.

Our Exercise & Coaching Library

To allow you to complete the practical delivey of this qualification, you will be working closely with your course support tutor as you work with a case study client.

Using our extensive online Exercise & Coaching Library, we will teach you what would normally be covered on our in-person practical workshops.

This will include:

• How to deliver gym-based exercise to clients
• How to structure a gym programme and personal training sessions
• Performing baseline measure tests with clients
• Delivering group training sessions
• Advanced training methods, Focus-pads, TRX, Kettlebells and much more…

Your course support tutor will teach you everything that is required to be able to safely and effectively work with your case study client, and importantly your future personal training 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 personal trainer by starting to build the foundations of your fitness business. This is not a requirement, but for those who do this they often complete their qualification with a business platform and paying clients ready to go.

Once you are fully qualified we will work with you to ensure your fitness business as a Personal Trainer is up and running and that you are actively marketing yourself correctly to start growing your client base.

We understand fully that a lot of your questions will come after you are qualified, whether you need business advice or help with training your clients. That is why we are always at hand to offer support and mentorship as you look to develop and grow your business.

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 delivery and assessments

To showcase the knowledge you have learnt from working with your course support tutor and using our Exercise & Coaching Library, as well as allowing you to show us how you will want to be acknowledged as a Personal Trainer, 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 a client.

Your case study work will consist of the following:

• Client consultation and health screening tests
• Gym Programme design
• Gym Programme delivery 
• Baseline measure tests
• 3 x personal training sessions (not-observed)
• 1 x observed personal training session
• Nutrtional analysis and nutrition plan
• Business plan

You will be required to film and submit some of this work for assessment. 

Accreditation

The Level 3 Diploma in Gym Instructing and Personal Training 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).

Take the complete journey..

An industry recognised Personal Trainer must hold both the Level 2 Certificate in Gym Instructing and the Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training qualifications. The level 2 essentially teaches the fundamental coaching skills that all Personal Trainers must have good knowledge of.

The learning experience flows a lot better for our students when you are able to complete your Level 2 qualification and then immediately add the advanced training methods and subject knowledge of the Level 3 course.

Our ONLINE Level 3 Diploma in Gym Instructing and Personal Training course does just that – combining both Level 2 and Level 3 content into one excellent course.

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.

TRY OUR LEARNING PLATFORM FOR FREE

If you are still on the fence about this qualification, why not try our online learning platform for FREE.

This will give you full access to our platform and will allow you to watch the first series of lessons – ensuring that this is the right course for you.

We are immensly proud of the lessons and resources that have been produced for our learners, this is not simply an online powerpoint style course or generic video content. It is important that you can see how you will be taught and how you will learn your Level 3 Diploma in Gym Instructing and Personal Training qualification.

Try our course for free here