Beat others with competitive advantage.
Learn how to:
· develop an existing business through specific strategies.
· stand out from other trainers.
· do a personal audit and assess how you can improve.
· grow a business through excellent service and results.
· welcome satisfied customers who generate new business.
Your clients will:
· Improve overall fitness.
· Enhance self-esteem.
· Target muscle groups for tone and strength.
· Improve health and wellness.
· Increase strength and endurance.
· Work on athletic programs or body transformation.
A student doesn’t need to be already working as a personal trainer to enrol however this course assumes you will already understand elements of human exercise and fitness, and the human body response to exercise.
If you are already working as a fitness instructor or a personal trainer this course is ideal for your:
Professional development
Skills development
New business development
The learning objectives are:
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Explain the role of the personal trainer.
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Explain the qualities required by a personal trainer.
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Recommend broad areas of focus that a client should attend to in order to improve their training outcomes.
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Investigate ways to expand a personal training service.
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Explain how to introduce yourself as a personal trainer and start working with new clients.
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Develop fitness plans and programs according to the needs of clients.
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Explain how to manage client departures and terminate difficult clients.
There are 7 lessons to complete.
Lesson 1: Role of a personal trainer
Personal training professionals
Purpose of personal training
Medical approval for exercise
Barriers to exercise
Major benefits of personal training
Daily work and responsibilities of personal trainers
Lesson 2: Qualities of a personal trainer
Desirable character traits of the personal trainer
Core services on offer
A personal trainer and their role in motivation
Level of concern or tension (good stress)
Success
Knowledge of results
Education or training the professionals
Lesson 3: What you need to know - expertise for success
Basic components of physical fitness
The human body
Energy production
Energy and exercise
Considerations for effective business
Lesson 4: Expanding a personal training service
Common types of personal trainers
Business basics
Expanding your services into other areas
Specialised services
Lesson 5: Working with new clients
Working with new clients – meet and greet
Pre-screening
Anthropometric measurements
Summarise what you know about the client
Lesson 6: Working with clients to create fitness plans and programs
Taking baseline measures & assessing progress
The role of exercise in weight control
Calculating ideal body weight
Human movement & types of fitness programs
Working with older adults
Instructing young people
Over-exercising
Other exercise considerations
Lesson 7: Managing client departures
Ending the trainer-client relationship
Difficult clients
Ending the relationship
Finding new clients
The school offers a range of courses which you can combine into a neat Certificate in Personal Training (a specialism can be decided) or similar. Start with Personal Trainer Professional Practice and add 5 more modules from this list:
Food Coaching,
Sports Nutrition,
Sports Psychology,
Nutrition for Weight Loss,
Wellness Coaching,
Internet Marketing,
Business Storytelling,
Managing Innovation.
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Important Additional Information
This is NOT a course in exercise and fitness. This course is professional development for people in the fitness and exercise and sports industry who want to develop themselves as a PT. It is not PT training specifically. It asks you to question if you have what it takes to be a PT. Can you build relationships you’re your clients? Students learn about customer satisfaction and marketing in the context of personal training. The course is designed for people to develop themselves to be unique and stand out from swathes of other PTs.
