Fitness Industry

Personal Trainer | Advanced Personal Trainer

Personal Trainer Certification

This course will provide the participant with the skills and knowledge required to gain certification as a personal trainer. In this course you will learn business operations, client service and legal and ethical responsibilities of a fitness instructor. The knowledge you gain from our diet and nutrition, resistance programming, cardio prescription and client evaluation and anthropometric measuring will soon have you on your way to becoming a top rating personal trainer.  

 

Where will the course lead?

The skills acquired in this course are consistent with the requirements for various roles in the fitness industry. You can count on a rewarding career! Roles you may work in as a Personal Trainer include:

• Gymnasiums
• Recreation centres
• Community programs
• Group fitness

What topics are covered:

Work performance and relationships
First aid
Customer service
Sport and Recreation Law
Occupational health and safety
Special interest groups
Psychology
Undertake a risk analysis
Best practice principles
Nutrition
Basic anatomy and physiology
Develop a strength and resistance programs utilizing a broad range of equipment
Plan, conduct and review fitness programs
Pre Activity questionnaire and anthropometric measuring
Deal with conflict

 

Advanced personal trainer certification

This course will provide the participant with the skills and knowledge required to gain an Advanced Personal Trainer Certification. This comprehensive course focuses on the skills necessary to be able to run your own successful personal training business. The ACSD Personal Trainer Qualifications program is full of valuable information about working with clients and designing programs, and provides a practical guide to all aspects of the personal training business.  

Where will the course lead?

ACSD Personal Trainer graduates are prepared to start a personal training business of their own.

Opportunities include:

• Training clients from home
• Train clients in the client's own home gyms

Work in:

• Community recreation centres
• Hospital fitness facilities
• Universities
• Local colleges
• Heath clubs and YMCAs.
  

What topics are covered:

Operate computing packages
Address client needs
Coordinate client service activities
Promote compliance with laws and legal principles
Conduct projects
Implement and monitor the organisations Occupational Health and Safety policies, procedures and programs
Undertake risk analysis of activities
Undertake relevant exercise planning and programming
Utilise a broad knowledge of exercise science in exercise planning, programming and instruction
Undertake postural appraisal of low risk clients
Utilise a broad range of fitness equipment
Provide exercise for fitness industry clients with special requirements
Utilise an understanding of motivational psychology for fitness clients
Provide information and exercise related to nutrition and body composition
Plan and deliver personal training
Plan and deliver exercise for older adults
Plan and deliver exercise for children and young adolescents
Teach or develop the basic skills of strength and conditioning
Make a presentation