Practitioner Diploma™

The Gym Instructor and Personal Trainer units feature cutting-edge content produced by some of the industry’s leading educators and includes video lectures, interactive animations, multiple choice worksheets and motion infographics. These units cover 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
• Physical measurements
• 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 Circuit training unit is a crucial asset for personal trainers and delves into designing, conducting and refining circuit training routines. It equips you with extensive insights on creating varied workouts suitable for people at any fitness level, while incorporating a wide range of exercises with or without equipment.

The T3 HIIT Coach unit enhances your understating of High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) fundamentals, methodologies, and the scientific rationale underpinning them. Learn the skills and knowledge to deliver HIIT sessions that maximise calorie burn, boost metabolism and optimise cardiovascular endurance, providing your clients with efficient, effective and exhilarating workouts.

*If you already hold a CIMSPA-recognised level 2 Gym Instructor qualification, you should choose the Practitioner Diploma™ (without Gym Instructor) option in the Course Prices section below.

You will:

• Complete as independent home study the online learning, online theory assessments, workbook and portfolios before performing any of the practical assessments.
  
  
• Film the practical assessments in a suitably equipped professional fitness environment; for example, a commercial fitness centre (for which you’ll need a minimum of three apparently healthy clients).
  
  
• Submit via our Help Desk a video of your practical assessments and completed portfolios. If you enrol on a combined gym instructor and personal trainer course, you must complete the gym instructor component of the course before the personal training component. If you enrol on a Specialist or Master Diploma, you must complete the personal training component before the subsequent units.
  
  
• As an alternative to submitting a video of your practical assessments, for an additional fee you can either book onto and attend In-Person assessments held on scheduled assessment days to which you’ll bring your one-to-one client and hand in a copy of your completed portfolios, or you can book onto and perform Live-Virtual assessments at bespoke times and dates that you arrange with us and for which you’ll have three clients with you and submit in advance via our Help Desk a copy of your completed portfolios. View dates
  
  

In London, we offer the In-Person study option both Full Time and Part Time. The Full Time option runs Monday to Friday, and the Part Time options run over consecutive scheduled Saturdays (Part Time Saturdays option) or Sundays (Part Time Sundays option). Whether you choose Full Time or Part Time, the number of days you attend is the same:

• Practitioner Diploma™ (with Gym Instructor) – 11 days (two clinics – Gym Instructor and Personal Trainer)
  
  
• Practitioner Diploma™ (without Gym Instructor) – 6 days (one clinic– Personal Trainer)
  
  

Outside of London, we offer the In-Person study option Part Time over full weekends (i.e. both Saturday and Sunday). The number of days you attend is:

• Practitioner Diploma™ (with Gym Instructor) – 11 days (two clinics – Gym Instructor and Personal Trainer)
  
  
• Practitioner Diploma™ (without Gym Instructor) – 6 days (one clinic – Personal Trainer)
  
  

Regardless of the location of the clinics you have booked to attend (i.e. inside or outside of London), you will:

• Book onto scheduled In-Person clinics according to the study option (Part Time or Full Time) that you enrolled on. View clinic dates.
  
  
• Complete as independent home study the online learning resources, online theory assessments, workbook and specified sections of the portfolios for each clinic before you attend that clinic. For example, you will complete the online course material and online theory assessment for the personal trainer component of the course (as well as specified sections of the personal trainer portfolio) before you attend the personal trainer clinic.
  
  
• Attend the In-Person clinics you have booked onto. You’ll perform various training and assessments during these clinics and also finish and hand in the relevant portfolios.
  
  

The Part Time Weekend option runs on weekends (Part Time Weekend) and the number of days in which you participate is:

• Practitioner Diploma™ (with Gym Instructor) – 11 days (two clinics – Gym Instructor and Personal Trainer)
  
  
• Practitioner Diploma™ (without Gym Instructor) – 6 days (one clinic – Personal Trainer)
  
  

The Part Time Evening option runs over consecutive Monday and Tuesday evenings (Part Time Evening). For this option, one day equals two evenings a week on Monday and Tuesday. The number of days in which you participate is:

• Practitioner Diploma™ (with Gym Instructor) – 11 days (two clinics – Gym Instructor and Personal Trainer)
  
  
• Practitioner Diploma™ (without Gym Instructor) – 6 days (one clinic – Personal Trainer)
  
  

Regardless of the Part Time option you choose, you will:

• Book onto scheduled Live-Virtual clinics according to the study option (Part Time Weekend or Part Time Evening) that you enrolled on. Check out the clinic dates.
  
  
• Complete as independent home study the online learning, online theory assessments, workbook and specified sections of the portfolios for each clinic before you participate in that clinic. For example, you will complete the online course material and online theory assessment for the personal trainer component of the course (as well as specified sections of the personal trainer portfolio) before participating in the personal trainer clinic.
  
  
• Participate in the Live-Virtual clinics you have booked onto. You’ll perform various training and assessments during these clinics and also finish and hand in your portfolios. All practical assessments bar one are completed on clinic. For the practical assessment not completed on clinic, you will instead film it in a suitably equipped professional fitness environment, for example, a commercial fitness centre, for which you’ll need one apparently healthy client.