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n57602000
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I have always been looking to do a personal trainer course to go with my swimming teaching one what is the best or what ways can you do a personal training course? any tips guide or help is much appreciated thanks
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You will need to be registered with REPs to work as a personal trainer (register of exercise professionals) so you should check their website to find out courses which they accept as qualification, note that not all courses will get you membership as a lot of them are not good enough. YMCA and Premier are 2 of the better ones to get the qualification from. Bear in mind also that to keep your membership running you need to commit to CPD (continual professional development) which means gaining a certain amount of 'points' from further training and study each year and this will mean attending more courses and workshops etc... which in turn costs more money each year just to stay qualified and registered.
You will also need to have insurance to join REPS (more money) and have a first aid certificate.
To be honest, Personal Training is such a competitive market as there are so many around nowadays, that unless you can offer something different to all the others (qualified in martial arts to add a different angle to the training, a Forces background for real tough training, qualified in various other disciplines of health/fitness etc) then there is no reason for clients to choose you over another trainer and it may be difficult to get more clients.
Also, you need experience of training people, so if you've not worked in a gym this will be difficult. A lot of people do evening/weekend gym work while studying for a PT/fitness instructor qualification as this helps a lot to see the way different people deal with exercise and gives you a good background knowledge for training in certain situations/types of people. Just having an interest in fitness or being a long-term user of a gym yourself is not enough experience. A lot of gym have vacancies for casual staff (YMCA gyms also take on volunteer staff which is an excellent way to get experience in the environment if you can commit to say one evening a week).
A hands-on course would be a lot better than a home-study one (they're not worth the paper they are written on most of the time tbh) as you need real-life training. You will literally be taking peoples fitness in your hands so if your course doesn't cover things like medical conditions and injuries, you may end up making someone worse than before without realising.
Sorry for the long post, I tried to give as much info as I could but any more questions just ask.0
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