CERTIFICATE IV IN FITNESS

If you want to be a Personal Trainer, you will need to undertake the Certificate IV in Fitness. This national qualification allows you to train and develop your own clients in an unsupervised setting.

What do you learn in a Certificate IV in Fitness?

The Certificate IV in Fitness course will prepare you to:

Plan exercise programs for your clients
Apply your knowledge of exercise science principles
Undertake client postural appraisals and other fitness tests
Undertake functional range of movement and muscle testing
Develop a broad variety of exercise programs
Run a small business
Some of the topics you will study include:

Exercise Science
Advanced Client Screening and assessment procedures
Planning and developing exercise programs for clients
Special Populations Clients such as teenagers and children
Small business planning and marketing
Modules
Cycle A – Adolescent and Adult Personal Trainer Skills
Cycle B – Fitness Business and Functional Movement
Cycle C – Nutrition & Strength and Conditioning

Job Outcomes
The program outcomes for this course are:

Workers qualified at a Certificate IV level are primarily employed as personal trainers in a fitness or leisure facility or in their own business.
This qualification provides a pathway to work in a diversity of fitness industry businesses including fitness centres, gyms, aquatic facilities, community facilities and in open spaces, where risk management (through risk assessment and hazard control processes) does not already exist.
A study pathway to the SIS50115 – Diploma of Sport and Recreation Management – Fitness Stream.
Preparation for further study and vocational skills with development of study and research skills, language and literacy skills, communication skills, time management, planning and managing projects, interpersonal skills and the development of techniques.
Additional outcomes include the attainment of a First Aid Certificate.