Gym Instructor Module
If you're an ETM instructor looking to broaden your fitness horizons, this module provides an ideal introduction to gym training. It is also an essential step towards becoming a personal trainer. We'll show you how to use your exercise and fitness knowledge in the gym environment and how to devise safe and effective programmes for your customers.
Learn to...
- Plan, teach and evaluate a gym programme
- Deliver gym inductions to individuals and groups
- Demonstrate good personal technique and alignment on a range of CV equipment, fixed resistance machines, free weights and body weight exercises
- Apply basic skills that will enable you to include older adult, disabled, and antenatal and post-natal client groups in your sessions
Pre-Requisites
- Level 2 Anatomy and Physiology theory papers and worksheets
- Experience of using a gym (cardiovascular, fixed and free weights)
Format
- 5 days face-to-face learning plus 1 day assessment (a mixture of theory and practical)
Assessment
- Practical assessment
Note: You will be required to bring one helper for your assessment
Certification
- CYQ Level 2 Certification in Fitness Instructing - Gym
REPs
Course price
Price: £540
Payment methods
You can pay for YMCAfit courses in the following ways:
- Credit/debit card by telephone on 020 7343 1850 (option 1)
- In person at our offices during the hours (9am – 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am – 3pm on Friday)
- Cheques or postal orders by post. Please make these payable to ‘YMCA Fitness Industry Training’
- Purchase order/invoice
- By fax on 0843 221 1548
Note: postal bookings can only be confirmed once we have received the payment and a completed application form, which is signed and dated. Please do not send cash through the post.
