Our personal training qualifications are awarded by YMCA Awards. If you successfully complete the Certificate course option, you’ll receive the Level 3 Certificate in Personal Training. If you successfully complete either the Diploma or Advanced Diploma course options, you’ll receive the Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training. The Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training qualification includes the Level 3 Certificate in Personal Training, Level 3 Award in Sports Conditioning, Level 3 Award in Business Skills and Marketing, and the Level 3 Award in Outdoor Fitness. All of our personal training courses are recognised internationally by REPS in the UK, UAE, New Zealand and South Africa; the European Register of Exercise Professionals (EREPS); Fitness Australia; and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

More knowledge and better skills can mean greater success in the workplace, so both our Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses include between four and six extra qualifications not included in personal trainer courses offered elsewhere.

The personal training courses described on our website refer to the personal training qualifications awarded by YMCA Awards. Students paying via a 19+ Advanced Learning Loan will enrol on the Level 3 Diploma in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training awarded by Active IQ.

All TRAINFITNESS courses are managed via our online learning portal. A main feature of the portal is the Student Desktop which you’ll gain access to as soon as you’ve enrolled. Through it you can view your online course material, book onto course days, training days and assessment days, and watch the relevant recorded audiovisual eClasses~.

Using the TRAINFITNESS app you can also do all of this on the move via the Mobile Student Desktop. The app is compatible with Apple iOS 8.1 and above and Android Jellybean (4.2.2) and above, and of course you’ll need internet connection*.

If you’ve chosen our Distance Study option, you’ll work through the online course material, complete the practicum (20 hours) and portfolio consisting of worksheets and session planning, and book onto and attend the scheduled Saturday assessment days. You’ll hand in your portfolios on the assessment days.

If you’ve chosen our Part or Full Time study options, you’ll work through the online course material, book onto and attend your scheduled course days, and hand in your portfolios on the relevant course days.

Regardless of the study option you choose, there is no difference in the qualification you receive. The qualification certificate you receive does not state the study option. Before you can request this certificate, you must satisfy and complete all course requirements. This includes, for example, the online course material which you will complete in your own time and outside of any attendance requirements.

There’s no guarantee that any course will be offered for more than two (2) years from the date you enrol, so you need to make sure you complete the course within this time frame.

*Devices, manufacturers and operating systems are subject to change
~If applicable to the course and or study option you enrol on

Depending on the course you choose, if you’ve chosen Distance Study you’ll need to book onto and attend a number of assessment days at one of our course venues during which you’ll hand in your portfolios, sit your theory assessments and perform your practical assessments*. You need to bring a client with you for the practical assessments, unless you arrange with us beforehand to submit a video for the practical assessments (for which you’ll also need a client). Conditions and additional fees apply to the video option, so please call the Learner Support team for more information. See the Distance Study Assessments tab below for assessment dates to choose from.

• Certificate = 3 Saturdays
• Diploma = the T3 workshop + 4 Saturdays + either 3 days or 3 video assessments
• Advanced = the T3 workshop + 5 Saturdays + either 3 days or 3 video assessments

Depending on the course you choose, if you've chosen to study Part Time you’ll need to attend the course days scheduled at one of our course venues. These are normally consecutive Saturdays or Sundays, but please check with us first to make sure. You’ll perform the relevant assessments on these days and also hand in your portfolios*. See the Part Time tabs below for course dates to choose from.

• Certificate = 12 Saturdays or 12 Sundays
• Diploma = the T3 workshop + either 18 Saturdays or 18 Sundays
• Advanced = the T3 workshop + either 19 Saturdays or 18 Sundays + 1 Saturday

Also dependant on your chosen course, if you’ve chosen to study Full Time you’ll need to attend the scheduled course days at one of our course venues Monday to Friday for either four or five weeks. You’ll perform the relevant assessments during this period and also hand in your portfolios*. See the Full Time tab below for course dates to choose from.

• Certificate = 4 weeks’ Full Time
• Diploma = 5 weeks’ Full Time + the T3 workshop + 1 possible Saturday
• Advanced = 5 weeks’ Full Time + the T3 workshop + 1 Saturday + 1 possible Saturday

*The Level 3 Award in Business and Marketing is a mandatory unit of the Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training qualification. You will need to complete it successfully in your own time and not during the period of attendance before you can request the Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training qualification certificate. The Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses also contain additional qualifications which are included in the price, but which are not mandatory units, therefore you don’t have to complete them in order to request your personal training qualification certificate. So, for example, whilst the cost of the Level 4 Obesity and Diabetes Management course and the Level 5 Life Coaching course are included in the cost of the Advanced Diploma course, you’ll complete them in your own time and not during the period of attendance.

The T3 workshop is a two-day workshop. Again, although it’s included in the cost of the Diploma and Advanced Diploma course options, you need to book onto it separately after you’ve successfully completed the level 2 component of your course.