YMCA Awards Personal Training Certificate
PT Certificate?
This course offers the perfect springboard for your own business as a PT offering one-to-one and group fitness coaching, advice, and support.
Personal Trainer Certificate
With the current developments in UK sport there is simply no better time to train as a fitness professional. The Soho Academy YMCA Awards Personal Trainer Certificate will enable you to help your clients achieve their goals by giving you the practical tools you need to become a confident, quality instructor. Our hands-on approach, in combination with the excellent quality of teaching and unique additional modules will give you the edge as you begin your career as a personal trainer.
Format of Course
The Personal Trainer Certificate is a part time course which typically takes around three months to complete, including the assessment phase. Face-to-face tuition, mentoring and practical sessions are held during weekends and/or evenings on-site at our gyms. Some modules are completed as home study, giving you increased flexibility so you can make the best use of your time. The home study modules will include telephone and electronic support options. This course structure enables you to combine your work or family commitments with learning new skills, as you develop into a fully qualified and experienced fitness professional.
Entry Requirements
No prior qualifications are needed to gain entry onto the full PT Course including both Level 2 and Level 3 aspects of the course. A course of this nature requires a reasonable level of fitness and academic skills. Students will need to study throughout the course so it is important you can commit to the course dates and home study to successfully pass the YMCA Awards exams/assessments.
If you already have Level 2 Gym Instructor and only require Level 3 PT Certificate, we can accommodate this as well at a lower fee (as you will not require the Gym aspect of the course).
Qualification Gained
When you successfully completed and passed the course you will be awarded the YMCA Awards Level 3 Personal Trainer Certificate.
You are now a Personal Trainer.
Next Step
Congratulations, you can now begin your new career as a personal trainer! After the course is over, you may choose to enhance your personal development by enrolling on some of our CPD courses and workshops, designed to give you practical new skills which you can use to teach a new class such as Boxing for Fitness, or gain new teaching methods to enhance your performance as a fitness professional.
Made Up Your Mind?
If you like what you see, and would like to enroll for the course, please fill in this electronic application form.
If you’re not quite decided, or if you have any questions about the course, or you’d like to take a look around one of the Academy Gyms, please contact the Academy.
Gym Instructor (if not completed already)
- Broaden your exercise and fitness knowledge covering joints and bones, body and muscular systems, and components of fitness
- Learn how to plan safe and effective exercise sessions to suit varied fitness levels, using different teaching skills to motivate and support clients
- Recognise the essential health and safety factors & emergency first aid
Personal Trainer Level Course Content
Advanced Fitness
- Design cardiovascular and strength programmes for a range of abilities, from beginner to advanced
- Learn how to teach and motivate individuals in training and develop skills to promote adherence to exercise and overcome drop out
- Plan personalised training programmes and design tailor-made fitness and activity schedules
Fitness Testing
- Run a range of fitness tests with clients, and analyse test data to inform a fitness programme
- Identify the typical physical and psychological barriers to exercise and devise strategies to eliminate them
- Identify common lifestyle stressors and devise recommendations for combating stress, helping your clients to become more relaxed and effective in their daily life
Exercise Nutrition
- Identify the components of a balanced diet, conducive to help achieve fitness goals
- Give nutritional guidelines to accompany a fitness programme, and as part of a weight management regime
- Evaluate and understand the diet industry, specific diets, and their impact upon weight management
- Interpret food labels and evaluate claims made by food manufacturers
