Are you an aspiring fitness professional? Amac training personal trainer courses can give you an encouraging and thrilling environment with an established provider. With them, you will attain your goals and reach your full potential.

Amac training Personal Trainer course units

The Amac training personal trainer course is made up of five individual courses which gives you a flexible approach to the way you study. All modules are CYQ (Central YMCA Qualifications) certified and can be taken in their entirety or as separate units if you aren't interested in receiving the entire award. It has also been updated to follow the industry's new occupational standards.

1. Training Environments
2. Advanced Fitness Instructor
3. Lifestyle & Fitness Assessment
4. Nutrition & Weight Management
5. Business & Marketing

The 5 courses listed will include units to expand your skill levels and give you a personal trainer qualification. The courses and units include:

1. Training Environments
   
   This unit gives trainers the skills and knowledge set to create fitness programmes in environments outside the gym; for example, at a client's workplace, home or outside using a range of transportable gear combined with walking.
   • Creating client specific programmes
   • Utilizing space which is limited
   • Encorporating resistance bands, hand weights, medicine balls, focus pads, skipping rope, stability balls, and steps into your workouts
   • Utilizing exercises that relay on bodyweight
   • Outdoor training
   • Walking
   • Health and safety
     
     
2. Advanced Fitness Instructor
   
   This unit contains a study pack for home including advanced physiology and anatomy which will also be dealt with in the classroom.
   • Physiology and anatomy (advanced level)
   • Teaching skills (advanced level)
   • Kinesiology (advanced level)
   • Body adaptations and the effects of exercise
   • Anaerobic and aerobic methods of training (advanced level)
   • Behaviour change and exercise psychology
   • weight training systems
   • Periodisation and Progressive programming
   • Exercise prescription (advanced level)
   • Power and flexibility training
   • Motor skills training
   • Training for core stability
     
     
3. Lifestyle & Fitness Assessment
   
   To ensure your clients can attain thier greatest potential, you'll be required to gauge their levels of fitness and health. This comes with the development of your interpersonal skills which help you set goals, gather information and design specialized programmes that suit your client.
   • Testing for health and fitness
   • Informed consent
   • Exercise prescription
   • Goal setting skills
   • Counseling skills
   • Stress and health screening
   • Techniques for stress management
   • Skills in interviewing
     
     
4. Nutrition & Weight Management
   
   On this course, you'll study about the implementation nutrition and exercise plans which are realistic according to your client's needs and strengths.
   • The digestive system
   • The nutritional basis of healthy eating
   • Dieting psychology and physiology
   • The energy balance and exercise relationship
   • Interpreting food labels
   • Eating disorders
     
     
5. Business and Marketing
   
   This unit strives to educate you in business preparation including marketing and business plans to enable you to promote and succeed in your personal training business.
   • Defining your business
   • Researching the idea for your business
   • Business set-up
   • Pricing
   • Situation analysis
   • Introduction to marketing
   • Marketing management
   • Consumer behaviour

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