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.
