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1 Year
Face-to-Face 15 hrs / week | Distance 5 hrs / week
Face-to-Face / Distance · Face-to-Face: 15 hours per week; Distance: 5 hours per week
Monthly (you may commence any Monday)
Course Overview
Where You Can Study
Gold Coast
Eligibility
Career & Study Pathways
Quality & Recognition
Academic Regulator
ASQA
Accreditation Status
AccreditedCourse Content
Investigate business opportunities
You will learn to identify a business opportunity and its key components. This requires undertaking research to determine the viability of the opportunity, with reference to the legislative frameworks affecting the business.
Instruct strength and conditioning techniques
Learn how to build and design drills, exercises and activities to instruct strength and conditioning techniques to individual athletes or groups of athletes according to their sport-specific needs or personal fitness goals.
Develop strength and conditioning programs
Learn how to build and design drills, exercises and activities to instruct strength and conditioning techniques to individual athletes or groups of athletes according to their sport-specific needs or personal fitness goals.
Support healthy eating for individual fitness clients
You will learn about healthy eating and the risks associated with providing clients with nutritional advice.
Assess client movement and provide exercise advice
Learn how to assess client movement and provide advice so clients achieve optimal movement, safe and effective exercise techniques.
Market new business ventures
You will analyse and interpret market data to develop and implement a marketing strategy that is integrated into the business plan in order to improve the performance of a business venture.
Apply critical thinking to work practices
Learn how to use advanced-level critical thinking skills in a workplace context, including using methods of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
Establish and maintain professional practice for fitness instruction
Learning to communicate with other health professionals and learning to manage client relationships.
Establish and manage client relationships
Learning to communicate with other health professionals and learning to manage client relationships.
Develop personalised exercise programs
Develop exercise programs and a series of sessions tailored to individual client needs, exercise preferences and fitness goals, integrating information from pre-exercise screenings, fitness assessments, and any medical guidance.
Instruct personalised exercise sessions
Skills for instructing sessions tailored to individual client needs, exercise preferences and fitness goals.
Maintain work health and safety
Learn how to implement and monitor work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and work practices as part of a small work team.
Develop and instruct personalised exercise programs for older clients
Develop and instruct exercise programs and sessions specifically tailored for individual older clients, covering skills for evaluating and modifying programs in response to client monitoring and feedback.
Support exercise behaviour change
Establish current patterns of client exercise and support clients to make changes to optimise fitness outcomes, health and wellbeing using evidence-based approaches.
Develop and instruct personalised exercise programs for body composition goals
Design programs integrating information from pre-exercise screenings, fitness assessments, and any medical guidance received for particular clients.
Use exercise science principles in fitness instruction
Use exercise science and training principles to support fitness instruction.
Develop and instruct personalised exercise programs for adolescent clients
Program design involves effective application of exercise science and training principles for adolescent clients.
Common Questions
Entry to this qualification is open to individuals who hold the following units of competency: HLTAID011 Provide First Aid, HLTWHS001 Participate in workplace health and safety, SISFFIT032 Complete pre-exercise screening and service orientation, SISFFIT033 Complete client fitness assessments, SISFFIT035 Plan group exercise sessions, SISFFIT036 Instruct group exercise sessions, SISFFIT040 Develop and instruct gym-based exercise programs for individual clients, SISFFIT047 Use anatomy and physiology knowledge to support safe and effective exercise, and SISFFIT052 Provide healthy eating information.
The course runs for 54 weeks in total, broken down as follows: 38 weeks of study, 4 weeks of supervised study, and 12 weeks of holidays.
The course is delivered via Face-to-Face at 15 hours per week on the Gold Coast campus, and also via Distance learning at 5 hours per week. An online learning portal called Canvas (Learner Management System) is used for distance education, where students can access course learning materials, assessment requirements, and communicate with their Mentor.
You may be eligible for Credit Transfers if you hold the same unit(s) from another provider. To be eligible, you must present your certified qualification at enrolment stage, together with the completed 'Course Credit Form'. Once assessed, you will be notified of the outcome. Should your achieved units be equivalent, your CoE/course duration will be reduced according to the amount of time needed to complete the outstanding units.
Students must pass a minimum of one of the following English requirements: an Upper Intermediate Certificate or higher, a Certificate IV level or higher qualification in Australia, IELTS 5.5-6, FCE Grade B or C, CAE 160-179, TOEFL 72-94, TOEIC 400-485 (listening) / 385-450 (reading), or the Entrepreneur Education English Test achieving at least Upper Intermediate level. All English evidence provided must be within a 2 year validity period — either within two years before the application is made, or within two years of the visa grant.
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