Start date: Saturday 7th July 2012, Aireville Campus
This is an intensive nine-week summer school designed to provide you with the skills to become qualified personal trainer. You will be working towwards the VTCT Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Personal Training (QCF). This is a competency based qualification that been designed to provide learners with the requisite knowledge, understanding and skills to work unsupervised as a personal trainer in sport and active leisure. The evidence required to achieve this qualification will be gathered from working with real equipment, facilities and customers, as part of temporary or permanent employment.
In this qualification learners will also develop their knowledge and understanding of the theory underpinning personal training, including nutrition, anatomy, physiology and health, principles of exercise and fitness, how to support clients, and health and safety.
Learners who successfully complete this qualification will be eligible for registration with the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) as a Level 3 Personal Trainer.
It is anticipated that learners who successfully complete this qualification be employed as personal trainers in the sport and active leisure industry.
Please note that for this course there are two taught sessions per week: Monday & Wednesday 10.00-4.00
