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PT RECOMMENDED Ideal for those looking to gain qualifications to become a personal trainer, or current personal trainers wishing to diversify their offering.
Business principles
Kettlebells
1 day
1 day
Convert your training expertise into a profitable and successful business with top tips on how to sell your service.
A fantastic new piece of kit for explosive exercises that works the major muscles, develops the core, burns fat, and builds power.
Certificate in Personal Training
Natural Running Coach
11 days
1.5 days
The ideal step up from gym instructing, this is where your career in personal training begins. As well as being able to devise detailed and effective plans for individual clients, you’ll also have the know-how to train them outside the gym environment, offer nutritional advice and implement a range of health and fitness tests to ensure that your sessions are really making a difference.
Adapt and adjust running techniques to train efficiently – a skill that many consider has been lost through running with excessive heal strike.
Emergency First Aid
Suspension Fitness
1 day
1 day
Be prepared for any emergencies with a first aid qualification. This is essential to any freelance PT and often an insurance requirement.
Padwork for PTs 1 day
Ideal for a mobile instructor, help your clients to develop strength, power and endurance through a martial arts based approach to fitness.
Teen Gym
3 days/home study
2 days
Open the gym doors to a whole new generation of eager youngsters by qualifying to adapt sessions for 11-18 year olds.
Gym Instructor Module
Triathlon
5 days
1 day
Ideal for qualified instructors looking to try their hand on the gym floor. Gain confidence in teaching the correct techniques on CV equipment, resistance machines and free weights.
High Intensity Training
2 days
Perfect for those who want to train small groups and incorporate functional and/or high intensity training (HIT) methods to boost their income.
Train clients in a more ‘functional’ way through manipulating their bodyweight to produce a suspension-based workout.
Exercise Nutrition Encourage your clients to achieve their goals by educating and supporting them to adopt healthier eating habits.
Focus on the fitness training facets of triathlon so you can improve the physical capability of your clients to withstand the demands of this extremely popular multi-sport event.
GROUP EXERCISE
SPECIALIST
Ideal for instructors who have gained an initial qualification in group teaching, these modules will allow you to teach a whole new class style making you more in-demand.
Ideal for groups who have specific requirements beyond those covered on entry-level qualifications. These courses will allow you to teach classes and one-to-one sessions to this specific group.
Aqua Training Module
Ante and Postnatal Exercise
3 days
2 days
Make a splash by delivering fun and effective water-based sessions using a variety of different approaches such as circuits or aerobics.
Adapt your sessions or teach specialist classes for new mums or mums-to-be allowing you to tap into an often under resourced market.
Circuit Training
Exercise and Disability
1 day
2 days
An ever present on all class timetables – develop ideas for exercises which utilise both bodyweight and equipment to teach circuit classes.
Gain confidence and expertise in writing and delivering safe, effective and fun exercise programmes for disabled people.
Core Stability
Exercise and Older Adults
1 day
2 days
Teach specific classes or incorporate as part of your on-to-one sessions, utilising equipment such as foam rollers, BOSU and core balls.
An increasing number of older adults want to stay fit and healthy, but currently there are not enough instructors to meet this demand. Stand out as a sought-after specialist by taking both classes and one-to-one sessions for this demographic.
Exercise to Music Module 6 days
Design your own freestyle choreography in order to teach innovative and exciting ETM classes such as aerobics and body conditioning.
Indoor Cycling 1 day plus home study
Plan the journey, involve hills and flats, sprints and recoveries, possibly split the class into two racing teams. Let your imagination run wild as you learn to take inventive indoor cycling classes to music. Free online training modules available as part of the course.
Kids’ Fitness Play and Games Module 4 days
Having fun is the name of the game when it comes to kids’ classes, but we’ll also focus on incorporating movement to develop balance, coordination, and body and spatial awareness.
Kids’ Fitness Dance Module 4 days
A superb tool for children to develop coordination, cardiovascular fitness and an improved sense of wellbeing, learn to teach classes with a particular emphasis on street dance, cheerleading and musical theatre.
Sculpt 1 day
Learn barbell and bodyweight exercises to teach a class to music which offers a challenging whole body resistance workout.
Diploma in Exercise Referral 4 days
Train to become involved in this extremely rewarding field working with medically referred clients with low-risk medical conditions.
HOLISTIC
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Ideal for those who wish to take the pressure off their joints and start to incorporate sessions which focus on both the mind and body.
Ideal for those who have gained a great deal of experience and are at a stage where they wish to pass on their expertise to the next generation of instructors.
Diploma in Teaching Yoga
Tutor Training (PTLLS)
9 days
1 day plus home study
Offer a flexible approach to fitness by adding yoga to your repertoire. Instruct in the practice of Hatha Yoga – the foundation from where many popular styles have developed.
Take a step back from instructing and instead focus on educating the next generation of fitness instructors. Recognised beyond the fitness industry, this qualification will also open the door to career development within further education.
STOTT PILATES® Mat-Plus 8 days
STOTT PILATES helps to develop optimal strength, flexibility, endurance and posture without building bulk or stressing joints. The Mat-Plus gives you the skills to teach essential and intermediate level Pilates matwork classes.
STOTT PILATES® Reformer 10 days
Teach a broad range of Pilates exercises, variations and modifications performed on the Reformer, and learn how to combine Mat and Reformer based workouts for increased variety and intensity.
Supple Strength 1 day
Blend elements of yoga, Pilates and body conditioning to build a challenging holistic workout which focuses on posture, core stability and body alignment.
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