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A great group exercise class delivers more than a workout. The right environment can make exercise more enjoyable, create a genuine sense of belonging and give people another reason to keep coming back. Research is now giving us a clearer picture of how that happens, and importantly, the role a skilled instructor plays in creating it. This week on the blog, we look at what group exercise can add to the training experience and how instructors can build it deliberately into their classes.

We have also got some brilliant course offers this week, including a FREE Life Coaching Course PLUS a FREE Exercise Referral course worth £898 with every PT Diploma and an EXTRA £250 off when you pay in full upfront, plus CPD offers on exercise to music, indoor cycling, yoga and padwork.

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Get a FREE Life Coaching Course PLUS a FREE Exercise Referral course worth £898 with any PT Diploma, plus an EXTRA £250 off when you pay in full upfront.

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Why Great Group Classes Work on the TRAINFITNESS Blog

Why Great Group Classes Work

A great group exercise class delivers far more than a workout.

There is the exercise itself, of course. But there is also the energy of the room, the instructor who knows your name, the people you expect to see each week, the shared effort of getting through the difficult part together and, for many people, simply having somewhere they belong.

Research is now giving group exercise a clearer framework for success.

Read the full article on the TRAINFITNESS Blog

What Separates a Class From a Crowd

Everything in this article points to the same thing. The instructor decides whether twenty people in a room are a crowd or a group, and you can learn the skills to do exactly that.

Our Exercise to Music qualification is where those skills get built. Choreography and music phrasing, cueing that works from anywhere in the room, adapting on the fly for mixed ability, and the class-management that has clients coming back every week. Available as distance study, live-virtual or in-person, so it fits around whatever life has going on.

Save 20% on the Exercise to Music Course this week. Use code ETM20 at checkout. From £499 or £54 per month.

Exercise to Music - Distance, Live-Virtual or In-Person

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The Autumn Reset

This week is about the September timetable and the instructors who will fill it, from the qualification that gets you leading a packed studio to the coaching skills that keep everyone coming back. There is an EXTRA £250 off every PT Diploma when you pay in full upfront, plus two free courses worth £898, alongside four CPD courses built for class teaching.

Personal Trainer Diplomas

Save an EXTRA £250 on any PT Diploma (Practitioner, Specialist or Master) when you pay in full upfront. Plus receive a FREE Life Coaching Course PLUS a FREE Exercise Referral course worth £898.

The Practitioner Diploma with Gym Instructor is from £999 or £104 a month this week, down from an RRP of £1,665, and from £649 without Gym Instructor. Specialist Diplomas in Nutrition & Exercise, Women's Exercise and Strength & Conditioning Exercise are from £1,549 with Gym Instructor or £1,199 without. Master Diplomas are from £2,049 with Gym Instructor or £1,699 without.

Gym Instructor & Personal Trainer Practitioner Diploma

Priced from £999 or £104/month

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Nutrition & Exercise Specialist & Master Diplomas™

Priced from £1,549 or £150/month

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Strength & Conditioning Exercise Specialist & Master Diplomas™

Priced from £1,549 or £150/month

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Women's Health & Exercise Specialist & Master Diplomas™

Priced from £1,549 or £150/month

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Already-Qualified PTs

Already hold a Level 3 PT qualification? You can also save an EXTRA £250 when you upgrade your existing qualification to a Specialist or Master Diploma and pay in full upfront. If the autumn plan involves taking on more clients than the diary has hours for, a specialism is the way to charge properly for the hours you already have. Level 3 & 4 Personal Trainer Specialist Diplomas are from £699 or £83 a month, and Level 4 Personal Trainer Master Diplomas from £949 or £100 a month.

Level 3 & 4 Personal Trainer Specialist Diplomas

Priced from £699 or £83/month

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Level 4 Personal Trainer Master Diplomas

Priced from £949 or £100/month

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Exercise to Music Diploma

The qualification that puts you at the front of the class, and the one this week’s article is really about. Choreography, music phrasing, cueing that carries across a busy room and the class management that keeps your clients coming back each week. Distance, live-virtual or in person. Yours from £499 or £54 a month. Save 20% with code ETM20 at checkout.

Exercise to Music Diploma

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Group Indoor Cycling Course

The class format where synchrony, music and a coach at the front do the most work, and one of the easiest additions to an autumn timetable. Distance or in person. Valued at £249, yours from £199 or £42 a month. Save £50 with code CPD20 at checkout.

Group Indoor Cycling Course

Priced from £199 or £42/month

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Yoga Teacher Training Course

Autumn is when yoga timetables fill, and this is the full teacher training rather than a weekend add-on. Asana, sequencing, breath and the teaching craft to hold a room of mixed ability. Live-virtual or in person. Valued at £1,499, yours from £999 or £125 a month. Save £500 with code YOGA33 at checkout.

Yoga Teacher Training Course

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Padwork Training Course

Pad rounds work beautifully in small groups, and they are one of the few formats where the pairing itself does the motivating. Technique, combinations, holding safely and how to run it for mixed ability. Distance, live-virtual or in person. Valued at £249, yours from £199 or £42 a month. Save £50 with code CPD20 at checkout.

Padwork Training Course

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3 to 48 month payment plans from 0% interest available on all courses.

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Upcoming Course Dates

Upcoming Course Dates

We have the following upcoming course start dates:

Mental Health First Aid
Live-Virtual Training Day


via Teams

Live-Virtual

28 August
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Group Indoor Cycling
In-Person Training & Assessment Day


London

In-Person

4 September
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Gym Instructor
In-Person Clinic (3 Days)


London

In-Person

11 September
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Pilates Instructor
Clinic 1 (1 Weekend)


London & via Teams

In-Person & Live-Virtual

12 September
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Personal Trainer
In-Person Clinic (3 Days)


London

In-Person

18 September
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Pilates Instructor
Clinic 2 (1 Weekend)


London & via Teams

In-Person & Live-Virtual

19 September
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Emergency First Aid at Work
In-Person Training & Assessment Day


London

In-Person

24 September
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First Aid at Work
In-Person Training & Assessment Day


London

In-Person

24 September
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Gym Instructor
Clinic (3 Days)


9 UK venues & via Teams

In-Person & Live-Virtual

25 September
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Yoga Instructor
Clinic 1 (1 Weekend)


London & via Teams

In-Person & Live-Virtual

26 September
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Olympic Lifting
In-Person Training & Assessment Day


London

In-Person

28 September
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Padwork
Training & Assessment Day


London & via Teams

In-Person & Live-Virtual

29 September
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Suspension Fitness
Training & Assessment Day


London & via Teams

In-Person & Live-Virtual

30 September
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View more dates at TRAINFITNESS

3 to 48 month payment plans from 0% interest available on all courses.

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Coach to Scale with Tom Trotter, the business programme for qualified coaches

Coach to Scale with Tom Trotter  

September is the month coaches decide things. New timetable, new clients and usually a private resolution that this year the business side gets sorted out properly. It rarely does, because the positioning and the pricing and the conversations that bring people in are a different craft from coaching them once they arrive.

Coach to Scale with Tom Trotter is a business programme for qualified and nearly-qualified coaches who want to build the online side of what they do. Tom has coached over 6,000 clients and grown an audience of 1.8 million organically, and the programme is the system behind it, set out in seven stages: position, offer, grow, attract, convert, deliver and scale. That is 33 lessons in total, plus weekly live group coaching with Tom and the team, a private community and a library of AI tools you set up around your own business. Everything opens on the day you join.

It is designed to sit alongside a full diary or a full-time job at around two hours a day, and it leans on conversations and positioning rather than ads, funnels or hustle. Most coaches on the programme report their first paying client within four to eight weeks.

Coach to Scale is £1,500 paid in full, or three monthly payments of £600. TRAINFITNESS graduates save £50.

Coach to Scale with Tom Trotter

£1,500 in full or 3 payments of £600

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