In order to complete your Level 3 personal training course, you first have to complete your Level 2 Certificate in Fitness/Gym Instructing. If you don't have a level 2 qualification, we have a range of diploma packages available to suit your needs. Simply call our Course Advisors on 0333 920 3622 today!

Accessing Credible Nutrition Information
You will learn how nutrition is a broad and varied subject that constitutes an important area of scientific study and why it is vital to retrieving nutritional information from reliable, evidence-based sources.

Common Nutritional Terms Related to Exercise and Health
Learn how to define health, diet, nutrition, well-being, macronutrient, micronutrient, phytonutrient, and more.

Nutrients Required to Maintain Health
Providing healthy nutrition recommendations centers on understanding the balance between micro and macronutrients. This section of the course will give you the knowledge to make informed nutrition decisions.

Using Nutrients to Fuel Activity
Learn how to achieve the optimal amount of nutrition for individuals - and how to maximize physical performance through the right kind of foods.

Tailoring Nutrition to Client Goals
Not all of your clients' goals will be the same. Learning how to create personalized nutrition plans per client is one of the most important skills to develop. This section touches on that subject.

Nutritional Considerations for Specific Client Groups and Medical Conditions
When you train pre and post-natal clients, senior populations, youth, or those with specific medical conditions, you will need to modify existing exercise and nutritional prescription. This section will provide you with the details.

Analyzing Dietary Habits and Identifying Areas for Improvement
Gain knowledge of how to assess and change nutrition for each of your clients by collecting information and providing helpful feedback based on data.

4 Webinars

1 Review Activity

Lifestyle Factors and Health and Wellbeing
To understand how lifestyle factors affect a client’s health and wellbeing, it is useful to understand and apply a range of psychological theories in relation to health behaviours.

The Impact of Common Medical Conditions on an Individual's Lifestyle
This section will introduce a range of common medical conditions that affect many individuals in the UK. It will cover the progressions and risk factors to enable the skilled professional to understand the key considerations for individuals who are affected by these conditions.

Risk Stratification and When to Refer Clients with Medical Conditions
Learn how exercise and physical activity offers many benefits for maintaining health and reducing the risk of chronic disease.

Communication to Encourage Positive Health and Fitness Behaviours
Learn how adherence to physical activity, exercise and fitness is not only essential to maintain the viability of health and fitness businesses, it is also essential for a client – in order to benefit from the physical activity or exercise, they need to take part regularly (reversibility principle – ‘use it or lose it’).

Behaviour Change Techniques and Motivational Strategies
This will explain the interaction between an individual’s beliefs, intentions and behaviours.

Health Screening and Fitness Assessment
This section explains it is essential that health screening and relevant fitness assessments form a part of initial consultations and ongoing reviews.

Using Technology to Encourage Positive Health and Fitness Behaviours
Learn why the health and fitness industry has embraced the development and usage of technology, both for performance and health benefits.

4 Webinars

1 Handout

2 Review Activities

The Cardiovascular System
This section will explain how the cardiovascular system operates and benefits through exercise. As well, explain the function of the heart and how blood pressure plays a role within the cardiovascular system.

The Musculoskeletal System
Learn how the skeletal system works in three basic planes and axes which include Anterior-posterior axis, Medical-lateral axis, and Longitudinal axis.

The Nervous System
This section will cover how the nervous system is responsible for sending, receiving and processing nerve impulses throughout the body.

The Endocrine System
Along with the nervous system, the endocrine system helps to maintain homeostasis. Instead of using action potentials, however, the endocrine system exerts its influence via hormones (chemical messengers).

Energy Systems
Learn how Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be converted from one form to another. The body, like all machines, requires energy for movement, to produce force, to generate heat and to grow or repair tissue. The body uses energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This is the energy currency of the body.

The Digestive System
This section will cover how the digestive system is the name given to the tissues and organs that are responsible for taking in food, preparing food for absorption, facilitating absorption and finally expelling waste once the nutrients have been removed.

The Principles of Programme Design
Practicing different training methods and flexibility techniques will minimise injuries and optimise recovery.

Periodisation
Learn the basic principles of periodisation is to break long-term programming into separate blocks of training. Each block is designed to progress a client towards a specific goal and elicit a specific adaptive response. These blocks are called phases or cycles.

Alternative Environments
This section will explain how each environment has benefits and disadvantages, and the PT must be able to consider these in order to safely and effectively deliver exercises to a range of clients in the most suitable environment.

Group Personal Training
Providing group personal training can broaden a personal trainer's target market. It can attract to clients who want to benefit from personal training, find working out on their own to be a challenge, enjoy social and group aspects in fitness, want to exercise with family or friends, and would benefit from the additional motivation offered in a group situation.

Special Populations
Learn how it is essential that personal trainer's have basic knowledge covering the key considerations for each of these special groups so they understand their professional boundaries and when to refer.

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3 Review Activities

4 Webinars

The Scientific Rationale for Integrated Training
Learn how to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of integrated exercise programme design. Also, describe the Optimum Performance Training (OPT) Model.

Fitness Assessment
This section will cover the components of and rationale for an integrated fitness assessment.

Flexibility Training Concepts
Explain the effects of muscle imbalances on the human movement system (kinetic chain). Differentiate between the various types of flexibility techniques.

Cardiorespiratory Fitness Training
Be able to define and describe the components associated with cardiorespiratory training. How it is important to perform safe and effective exercises for clients.

Core Training Concepts
Understand the importance of the core musculature and be able to perform, describe, and instruct core training exercises.

Balance Training Concepts
Define balance and describe its role in performance and injury risk. Discuss the importance of balance training.

Plyometric (Reactive) Training Concepts
Define plyometric (reactive) training, discuss the importance, and describe its uses. Perform and instruct various plyometric training exercises.

Speed, Agility, and Quickness Training
This section will define and describe speed, agility, and quickness training and its purpose. Design a speed, agility, and quickness-training programme for clients at any level of training.

Resistance Training Concepts
This section will describe the stages of the general adaptation syndrome. Then list and define the various stages of strength and training systems.

Integrated Programme Design and the Optimum Performance Training ® (OPT ™) Model
Learn how to define and describe the acute training variables within the Optimum Performance Training ® (OPT ™) Model.

Introduction to Exercise Modalities
Be able to fine and describe the safe and effective use of selected exercise training methods, including various forms of resistance and proprioceptive modalities.

4 Review Activities

4 Webinars

The Legal and Professional Requirements of Personal Training
This section will cover the different legal requirements that the personal trainer (PT) has to abide by. The PT's primary responsibility is to maintain the health, safety and welfare of their clients at all times.

Health and Safety in the Workplace
Understand that it is the employer's duty to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees and other people who might be affected by their business, e.g. customers, suppliers and the general public.

Requirements of Being Self-Employed
Learn the different legal requirements for the self-employed in the UK. These include the registration with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), keeping accurate business records, and completing tax returns and paying income tax.

Legal and Professional Requirements for the Management of Personal Information and Records
As a PT, you will need to collect, store and use client information in order to meet client needs and expectations. The personal trainer needs to comply with the Data Protection Act by adhering to the data protection principles.

Marketing Techniques and Tactics
This section will cover the different marketing techniques and tactics for satisfying customer requirements in order to maximise profitability.

Closing a Scale
Learn many skills, techniques and methods that PTs can use to help them successfully sell their services, close a sale and gain new business. Whichever technique or method is selected, it is essential that the PT and the potential client are comfortable.

Setting Budgets and Managing Finances in a Personal Training Business
Annual budgets outline both the expected income and expenditure over a 12-month period. It is a crucial part of the PT business as it gives an overview of how the business is doing, what the personal trainer can expect to be paid, whether targets/objectives are being met and what expenditure will need to be outlined and when.

Using Information Technology (IT) to Support Effective Business Planning and Delivery
This section will cover how in addition to using IT for data collection and analysis, it can also be used to support effective business planning and delivery. The PT can use IT to enable a more efficient and effective use of time and to support clients with achieving their fitness goals without the need to leave the house. Generally, applications will be interactive or informational.

Professional and Personal Importance of Continuing Professional Development
Learn how continuing professional development (CPD) is a fundamental factor for the PT wishing to realise and maximise their potential and development in their professional and personal lives. CPD can help to maintain, improve and broaden knowledge, skills and personal qualities. It is also a key element of maintaining currency of qualifications, to keep up to date within the industry and for recognition of professional associations.

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5 Review Activities

The Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training includes (2) exams. The Level 3 - Applied A&P consists of 40 questions, with 90 minutes to complete. The Level 3 - Nutrition for exercise and health consists of 40 questions, with 90 minutes to complete.