Welcome learner; the first step into your fitness career.
Gym instructors provide a key role within health and fitness settings and are considered by many as the face of the organisation.
Following a successful membership sale, gym instructors are normally the next person a new customer will interact with, therefore they need to be welcoming and professional, building a positive report and making them feel at ease. Gym instructors provided valuable technical input, therefore their knowledge and understanding of how the body reacts to exercise must be strong. This will help them to support clients whether their goals and guide them through positive behaviour change, whilst also ensuring the health and safety of all members is maintained throughout their visit. The information, content and resources at Summit Fitness aim to cover all of these areas, providing you with the knowledge and understanding needed to have a successful career in the health and fitness industry.
Qualification purpose
The aim of this qualification is to provide learners with the skills and knowledge to a professionally competent level enabling them to plan deliver and evaluate safe and effective fitness instruction sessions unsupervised via the context of gym-based exercise.
- To develop learner’s knowledge of anatomy and physiology and how it relates to exercise and fitness.
- To develop learner’s ability to plan and deliver safe and effective gym sessions.
- To provide learners with the knowledge to develop good customer service and the personal qualities required by the exercise and fitness industry.
- To provide learners with an awareness of health and safety in an exercise and fitness environment.
- To provide learners with the opportunity to progress to further qualifications in the exercise and fitness industry.
Here, you will begin your studies. You’ll have access to the online learning theory. In order to pass the course, your tutor will need to see you working through the online content and demonstrate both theoretically and practically that you are competent in the fitness environment.
Assessment methods
Learners will complete:
- Units 1-6.
- Complete ‘knowledge checks’ at the end of each topic area.
- Complete ‘assignments’ where required (see LAP for more details).
- Complete your Learner Achievement Portfolio – ‘LAP’ (which is available to download on the welcome page of any course for which you are enrolled).
- Complete your ‘practical assessments’ (information for your practical assessments is located within your LAP) and in learner materials.
If you have any problems accessing or completing the assigned work, please contact your assigned tutor directly.
Please see below a number of downloadable PDF documents which you will need to utilise for the course:
- SFS - Informed Consent Form
- SFS - PAR-Q Form
- SFS - Session Planning Sheet
- SFS - Session Planning Sheet (EXAMPLE)
- SFS - Session Self Evaluation Form
- SFS - Video Evidence Guidance & Risk Assessment
- SFS - Client Consultation Sheet
- SFS - Course Planner
- SFS - Webinar timetable
Learner Achievement Portfolio (LAP):
Webinar recordings:
