PERSONAL TRAINING COURSES

Health clubs: train clients in your local health club.

Your own personal training business: work for yourself, when and where you choose.

Personal training franchise: launch your PT business with the help of an established personal training franchise.

Community fitness groups: support the health of your community by delivering fitness training services and advice through organised group initiatives.

Our Course Foundation features proprietary, cutting-edge, personal training content produced by some of the industry’s leading educators and includes video lectures, interactive animations, multiple choice worksheets and motion infographics. It covers a comprehensive range of subjects, including:

• Anatomy and physiology
• Diseases and health conditions
• Analysis of client information
• Functional programme design
• Movement screening
• Effective coaching models
• Health risk stratification
• Postural assessment
• Metabolic breakpoint testing
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Health and safety
• Planning and instructing gym-based exercise
• Health optimisation
• Nutrition
• Training movements vs. training muscles
• Circuit training
• 10-step consultation process
• Corrective exercise
• Business skills and employment preparation

The Practitioner Diploma features the Course Foundation and includes:

• Level 2 Gym Instructor
• Level 3 Personal Trainer
• T3 (HIIT) Coaching
• Circuit Training

The Specialist Diploma includes the Practitioner Diploma plus:

• Sports Conditioning
• Outdoor Fitness
• Group Indoor Cycling (Distance and In-Person study options)
• Advanced Stretching (Live-Virtual study option)
• Level 3 Exercise Referral

The Master Diploma includes the Specialist Diploma plus:

• Level 4 Obesity and Diabetes Management
• Life Coaching

Perfect for those who aren’t looking for, or whose lifestyle can’t accommodate, a schedule of clinics (classes) to attend. Complete your online course material and theory assessments as home study, then film your practical assessments and submit them electronically along with your completed portfolios.

Check out Distance in Course Specs below for the steps you’ll take to complete your course by Distance study.

Ideal for those looking for daily interaction with a tutor and other learners from home. The perfect choice if you’re looking to also offer your personal training services online once you’ve qualified, using Zoom for example.

See Live-Virtual in Course Specs below for a breakdown of the steps involved in completing your course by Live-Virtual study.

A great choice for those looking to learn in the gym environment with a tutor and other learners.

Visit In-Person in Course Specs below for details on what you’ll do to complete your course by In-Person study.

Our graduates have also gone on to start their new career at other popular fitness centres across the UK including:

Jobs Matched to You

Our AI engine will match you with jobs based on the fitness courses you’re studying with us and the fitness qualifications we know you already have. As you carry on additional training through more courses with us and build out your continued professional development, the range of job opportunities presented to you will be automatically matched to suit your knowledge, skills and experience.

Our job board is only available to those enrolled on one of our personal training courses.

With our unique Career Concierge™ service, we can introduce our personal trainer course graduates to job opportunities across the UK with many of the most popular fitness club operators, leisure centres and boutique personal training studios through our exclusive relationship with Love Recruitment, the leading recruitment agency in the fitness sector. Whether it’s help whipping your CV into shape, prepping you for an interview or introducing you to your big break, Love Recruitment are the fitness industry experts.

You can also access a range of specialists in areas such as personal trainer insurance, web design, branding and social media to help you get your new business up and running. With this abundance of career support, a stellar new career as a personal trainer is yours for the taking.

Learn more about our Career Concierge™.

Mobile, tablet, laptop and desktop: you can study our fitness courses where, when and the way you like thanks to our award-winning digital ecosystem and e learning resources. As soon as you enrol, you can log onto our website or mobile app and access your online Student Desktop. Through the Student Desktop you complete the online lessons and assessements and, depending on the study option you choose, you can book onto optional assessment days, optional training days or clinics.

Technology is in our DNA. We were the first course provider in the UK fitness industry to offer e learning and the first to offer a mobile app so that you can study any of our fitness courses on the go. Our digital heritage ensures a rich and seamless learning experience – however you like to learn – which was recognised by the health and fitness industry with our achievement of the ukactive award for Best Use of Technology.

Our personal trainer courses are created using microlearning principles, where content is divided into bite size chunks, helping you to better comprehend and retain information. Clear learning paths and our unique blend of stimuli make learning simpler and help build knowledge piece by piece.

Our personal training courses also include synoptic assessment, which combines assessments over modules and across subjects. This method allows learners to transfer knowledge and skills between subjects and helps you see how issues and themes connect. Synoptic assessment reduces compartmentalised learning, so in your course you’ll notice anatomy and physiology, for example, is split across multiple lessons. You, the learner, will then combine elements of your learning from these different lessons and show your accumulated knowledge and understanding.

Our PT courses meet the real-world requirements of fitness instructors and personal trainers and are specifically structured in such a way as to represent the real-world journey you’ll take your personal training clients on once you’ve qualified.

When you take part in one of our personal training courses, we offer support in numerous ways, including our:

Tutor Support Service – As well as the support you receive from your expert tutors on a scheduled clinic or training day (if applicable), you’ll also have access to our Tutor Support team. This team is dedicated to helping you with study questions and administration queries via phone, email or through our Helpdesk. You’ll be in good hands – the team are all fully qualified personal trainers, so they’ve been where you are now and know how to help.

eClasses – We have a range of optional eClasses designed to help you prepare for your assessments. You can enrol on one or more of the eClasses and once enrolled you can attend that eClass as many times as you like within the course term. Our eClasses are not mandatory, so they’re not included in your personal training course. Additional fees apply.

Optional Training Days – If you enrol on the Distance study option and would like extra help with the more practical elements of the course, we have optional training days you can book onto and attend. On these days you can receive valuable tutor feedback and practical training. There are two optional training days available, one for the Gym Instructor component and another for the Personal Trainer component. Optional training days are not mandatory; therefore, aren’t included in your course. Additional fees apply.

We’re confident we deliver the best value and highest quality training in the health and fitness industry. We don’t expect you’ll find a better price elsewhere for the same fitness instructor or personal training course sold with the same services. But if you do, we’ll match the price when you enrol with us.

Learn more about the Price Match Promise we offer with our Level 3 diploma personal training courses.

Enrolling on our Practitioner, Specialist or Master Diploma (whether that be the combined gym instructor and Level 3 personal training option or just the personal training Level 3 option) will give you access to 225 exercise videos in our extensive exercise library. Videos include base exercises as well as a range of modifications and progressions to help you create varied and effective workout programmes for your clients. You’ll have access to the exercise library throughout your course and once you’ve graduated.

If you choose to enrol on the Specialist or Master Diploma, you’ll also have access to the Outdoor Fitness Exercise Library. This library contains an additional 90 exercise videos that demonstrate a range of body weight and small equipment exercises which can be used both indoors and outdoors. You’ll also have access to the throughout the course and after you’ve qualified.

Graduating from our Practitioner, Specialist or Master Diplomas will also open up over 170, 30-minute T3 High Intensity Interval Training workouts. These workouts include:

• a 4-minute mobilisation routine
• 4 x 5-6 minute HIIT routines
• a 4-minute active recovery routine
• programme cards to give to your clients to track their results

All exercise libraries are accessed in the cAmpus app.

These fitness instructing videos are an incredible resource for your future career as a highly sought personal trainer. As a form of career support, you can draw on these videos when designing workouts to help your clients achieve results in rewarding and different ways.

As an employed fitness professional, your duties will involve more than designing exercise programmes and taking clients through fitness training sessions. On top of fitness instructing, you may be required to work on reception, teach a variety fitness classes that you’re qualified to deliver, and perform other duties such as cleaning and maintaining the fitness equipment. You may also be required to conduct gym inductions and take new members through their first exercise workout.

For some people, full time employment as a fitness professional provides the job security they’re looking for. As a professional PT working in professional fitness settings such as gyms and leisure centres, you would receive the regular benefits a full time position comes with, such as holiday pay and sick pay, whilst you build your industry experience.

Running Your Business

As a self-employed personal trainer you decide how many exercise sessions you want to deliver per day and per week. In most cases, the fees you charge your clients are your own; however, the gym you work at will often charge you a rental fee to use their exercise facilities. These rental fees vary greatly depending on the gym and its location.

Of course, being self-employed also means greater flexibility with the whereabouts of the training you offer. For example, you can train clients in their own home or outside, where there are little to no costs.

Benefits of Being Self-Employed

Being self-employed gives you the greatest amount of control and flexibility over your working life. You are your own boss; therefore, you choose how many PT sessions you want to do, where you train your clients and how much you charge.

Hybrid Employed/Self-Employed

Increasingly, the hybrid employed/self-employed model is becoming a more popular personal training model offered by health and fitness clubs. It involves you working some set, salaried hours for the health club, and then you’re free to train your clients in the club for a reduced rental fee. It’s the best of both worlds with the security of a salary and some of the freedom of a self-employed position.

After You Complete Your Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training Course

Once you complete your Level 3 personal trainer qualification, your next step is to start building your client base. The hybrid model allows you to earn a salary performing the duties the fitness club sets for you, while also allowing you get to meet members and convert them into paying clients at your own pace.

After You Complete Your Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training Course

Once you complete your Level 3 personal trainer qualification, your next step is to start building your client base. The hybrid model allows you to earn a salary performing the duties the employer sets for you, while also allowing you get to meet members and convert them into paying clients at your own pace, in your own time.