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Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instructing (Gym)

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The industry’s most popular entry-level qualification, ideal for those new to health and fitness. Essential for advancing to Level 3 Personal Training.

About the Course

Our Level 2 Gym Instructor Certificate is the industry’s most popular entry-level qualification. It’s ideally suited for those with a passion for health and fitness, who are looking for an exciting career change. Gyms, leisure centres and health clubs are vibrant and fast-paced places to work, and they require motivated and knowledgeable professionals to teach exercise to their members.

Being a gym instructor is an incredibly varied role that could have you doing anything from performing inductions for members, maintaining exercise equipment, giving diet advice, and planning sessions – the list goes on. This qualification will make sure you can hit the ground running. From e-learning materials to support from our experienced tutors, everything you need to achieve this Level 2 qualification is provided for by us.

Here are some of the topics we cover:

  • Principles of exercise and fitness: Anatomy and physiology, including the cardio-respiratory, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems
  • Resistance training concepts
  • Cardiovascular training concepts and exercise techniques
  • Planning fitness training programmes
  • Teaching and instructing exercise and fitness
  • Body weight and free weights exercise techniques
  • Resistance machine exercise techniques
  • Warming-up and cooling-down effectively
Requirements

While there are no formal prerequisites for this qualification, experience of using a gym, and a passion for the industry will help you get off to a flying start. We usually recommend that you dedicate around 8-10 hours a week to your studies; this ensures you’ll be fully prepared for your final assessments.

How to Apply

To Register for this course, please contact us on 020 3633 8782 for more details