Gym Instructing Certificate Active IQ Level 2

What will you be learning?
This course can lead to work as a gym instructor or personal trainer and enables entry into R.E.P. (Register of Exercise Professionals.

The course includes: Designing programmes focusing on individual client needs specific to their age, weight, etc.; developing social skills, dealing with a wide range of clients goals from sports specific to lifestyle requirements; health and safety and anatomy and physiology.

You will be assessed continually throughout the programme and will take an anatomy and physiology exam.

What happens when you have finished?
After you have successfully completed this course you can progress onto other sport courses or gain employment.

Where and when?
Location: Folkestone

Start date: September

Duration: 1 year

How is it delivered?: Part-time

How much will it cost?
Tuition Fee: £420

Exam & Registration Fee: £94

You may not have to pay this tuition fee if:

• You are unemployed and in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance (contribution-based)
• You are in receipt of, or are an un-waged dependent of someone currently in receipt of any of the following "income-based" benefits:
  • Income-based Jobseekers Allowance (JSA)
  • Income-related Employments and Support ALlowance (ESA)
  • Income Support
  • Working Tax Credit (your assessed household income needs to be less than 15,276 per year (amount subject to change)
  • Housing Benefit
  • Council Tax Benefit (excluding the 25% single person reduction)
  • Pension Credit - Guaranteed only

View our Money Matters page for full details and information about the financial support available, including Adult Learner Grants.