A Professional Development Course for Personal Trainers
Enhance your personal training business and stand out from the rest. This course will give you lots of tips and guide you through how to provide your clients with better service and more offerings than your competitors.
Enhance your business, help your clients achieve results and build your brand as a personal trainer.
There are 7 lessons in this course:
Lesson 1: Role of a personal trainer
Personal training professionals
Purpose of personal training
Medical approval for exercise
Barriers to exercise
Major benefits of personal training
Daily work and responsibilities of personal trainers
Lesson 2: Qualities of a personal trainer
Desirable character traits of the personal trainer
Core services on offer
A personal trainer and their role in motivation
Level of concern or tension (good stress)
Success
Knowledge of results
Education or training the professionals
Lesson 3: What you need to know - expertise for success
Basic components of physical fitness
The human body
Energy production
Energy and exercise
Considerations for effective business
Lesson 4: Expanding a personal training service
Common types of personal trainers
Business basics
Expanding your services into other areas
Specialised services
Lesson 5: Working with new clients
Working with new clients – meet and greet
Pre-screening
Anthropometric measurements
Summarise what you know about the client
Lesson 6: Working with clients to create fitness plans and programs
Taking baseline measures & assessing progress
The role of exercise in weight control
Calculating ideal body weight
Human movement & types of fitness programs
Working with older adults
Instructing young people
Over-exercising
Other exercise considerations
Lesson 7: Managing client departures
Ending the trainer-client relationship
Difficult clients
Ending the relationship
Finding new clients
The aims of this course are:
Explain the role and qualities of a professional personal trainer.
Recommend broad areas of focus that a client should attend to in order to improve their training outcomes.
Investigate ways to expand a personal training service.
Explain how to brand yourself and start working with new clients.
Develop fitness plans and programs according to the needs of clients.
Explain how to manage client departures and terminate difficult clients.