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Lifetime HF Fitness Instructor courses

Lifetime Health and Fitness

Become a qualified fitness instructor with the Lifetime Health and Fitness Fitness Instructor course. This course prepares fitness instructors to work within a health club and gym environment, inducting members and clients, designing exercise programmes and supervising members during their pre-planned workouts.

Lifetime HF Fitness Instructor course

The Exercise and Fitness Knowledge part of the training course is available via a CD ROM, utilising distance learning. The other part of this basic fitness instructor course is a final assessment to test the knowledge provided in the CD ROM.

The average completion time for this training course is 6 to 8 weeks.

Further fitness instructor courses

Lifetime Health and Fitness provide a number of further courses aimed an individuals looking to process as a qualified fitness instructor. These courses include:

  • Professional Fitness Instructor course
  • Combined Instructor course
  • Advanced Fitness Instructor course

Professional Fitness Instructor Award

This course is the ideal starting point for those wishing to work at Fitness Instructor level within a health or leisure club.

The programme and course units will prepare fitness instructors to induct clients onto gym equipment and also provide versatile group teaching skills required to run an effective circuits class. This is a well rounded and very popular fitness qualification. Units include:

1. Exercise and Fitness Knowledge Level 2

  • Concepts of fitness
  • Bones and joints
  • Muscles
  • Kinesiology
  • Enerfy Systems
  • Nutrition
  • Cardiorespiratory Systems

2. Gym Instructing

  • Exercise Programme Design
  • Health Screening
  • Preparing People for Exercise
  • Resistance Training
  • Cardiovascular Training
  • Relaxation and Stretching
  • Health and Safety
  • Teaching Skills

Combined Fitness Instructor Award

This fitness award provides an ideal grounding for people wishing to start a career as a versatile Fitness Instructor. Students will develop both theoretical and practical skills to teach individual and group exercise programmes. Fitness Instructors who are able to work in varied exercise environments including both the gym and studio are in great demand.

Again this course provides the key Exercise and Fitness Knowledge Level 2 and the Gym Instructing units, plus the additional Exercise to Music unit, allowing qualified fitness instructors to teach a group of people within a gym setting.

Exercise to Music unit includes:

  • Use of Music
  • Essential Teaching Skills
  • Choreography
  • Preparing People for Exercise
  • Class Design and Structure
  • Muscular Strength and Endurance Testing
  • Cardiovascular Training
  • Relaxation and Strength
  • Health and Safety

Advance Fitness Instructor Award

The Advanced Fitness Instructor Award is the gateway to access Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) Level 3 status. The Advanced Fitness Instructor course includes:

  • Exercise and Fitness Knowledge (Level 3)
  • Advanced programming skills

Both these units increase both the theoretical and practical skills of the fitness instructor. These skills will include:

  • Basic Endocrinology (hormones within exercise)
  • The Cardiopulmonary Sytem
  • Client Consultations
  • Core Stability and Core Strengthening

The advanced fitness instructor has the ability to gather and analyse information and develop advanced exercise programmes.

The Advanced Fitness Instructor Award can either be completed as a fully taught module, via distance learning or with attendance on a four-day advanced programming workshop.

Contact Lifetime Health & Fitness

Call Lifetime Health & Fitness on 0870 702 7273

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