Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Build a Fitness Business
Turn your passion for fitness into a successful and socially responsible business with specialist advice from CQUniversity.
Duration
Approx 16 weeks2-5 hrs per week
Understand How to Start a Business in the Fitness Industry
The fitness industry generated $94 billion in 2020 in the US alone. It is a sector supporting thousands of entrepreneurs, and you could be one of them.
Empower yourself to achieve your dreams of becoming a personal trainer with your own fitness business.
Whether you are just starting, or you have been in the fitness industry for years, this ExpertTrack will cover the valuable skills you need for success.
You’ll be guided through a series of courses designed by the experts at CQUniversity as you gain knowledge on how to work with all types of clients, networking, mental health, and nutrition.
Understand client onboarding
You’ll learn how to set your clients up for success with effective preparation techniques. You’ll examine fitness testing and pre-screening requirements to incorporate into your onboarding process and help your clients achieve their fitness goals. ##Learn how to tap into the outdoor fitness market:
You’ll understand how to incorporate outdoor training into your fitness business to increase your income, and expose your clients to new programs.
Learn mental health first aid and workplace health and safety in a fitness setting
During your career as a personal trainer, it’s likely you will encounter a client with mental health considerations.
On this course, you’ll learn how to design a fitness plan that best supports your client’s mental and physical health.
Understand client retention and how to network:
You’ll learn valuable skills in maintaining your existing client base as well as how to network to increase your fitness community and bring in more revenue.
By the end of this ExpertTrack, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to become an entrepreneur and build a socially responsible fitness empire.
Key skills you will learn
- Nutrition
- Building a Business
- Networking
- Social Media
- Entrepeneurialism
- Fitness Training
- Mental Health Support
- Ageing and Exercise
- Personal Training
Learning outcomes
By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...
- Apply best practice techniques to screening and managing fitness clients
- Develop a strong social media presence and understand the importance of community and shared goals for fitness
- Assess risks and regulations to provide a safe environment to work out in for clients of all ages
- Interpret the rules and regulattions around operating a fitness business in your jurisdiction
- Develop and deliver high quality nutrition plans
- Present best-practice fitness plans tailored to individual needs and limitations
Experience required
To get the most out of this ExpertTrack you should be a fitness trainer, professional or enthusiast. We will assume some knowledge of basic exercise and fitness principles.
Getting started
Take your passion for fitness and build your own empire with this ExpertTrack. If you have always wanted to have your own fitness business and you’re interested in learning the leadership skills to help you succeed, then this ExpertTrack is for you.
ExpertTrack course overview
Course 1
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Client Onboarding and Fitness Testing
Set your personal training clients up for success and help them achieve their goals with an effective onboarding process.
1 test
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
The Client Orientation Process
- Welcome to Your Personal Training Toolkit
- Client Orientation Process
- Physical Assessments
- Check Your Understanding
Week 2
Starting on the Right Foot: Efficacy and Motivation
- Goal Setting
- Efficacy and Motivation
- Check Your Understanding
- Wrap up
Course 2
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Build an Outdoor Fitness Business
Learn how to operate a successful outdoor fitness training business as a health and fitness professional.
1 test
2 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Get Out, Get Active and Get Healthy
- Welcome to the Course
- Let's Get Moving!
- Health and Wellbeing
- Check your understanding
Week 2
Steps to success
- Introduction
- Setting yourself up for success
- Check your understanding
- Wrap up
Course 3
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Providing Nutritional Advice to Your Clients
Understand how to give effective nutritional advice to your fitness clients, and when this guidance goes beyond your remit.
1 test
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
The Dangers of Providing Nutrition Advice to Clients
- Welcome to the Course
- Australian Dietary Guidelines
- Check Your Understanding
Week 2
Specific Populations
- Risks When Providing Nutritional Information
- Check Your Understanding
- Wrap Up
Course 4
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Mental Health First Aid for Fitness Trainers
Understand the first response when encountering a person with a mental health problem, or experiencing a traumatic event.
1 test
2 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Understanding Mental Health
- Welcome and Introduction to the Course
- Overview of Mental Health Disorders
- Check Your Understanding
Week 2
Management Tools
- Introduction and Welcome to Week Two
- Dealing With People Suffering From Mental Health Disorders
- Check Your Understanding
- Wrap Up
Course 5
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Developing Fitness Programs for Older People
Understand the effects of ageing and fitness programming for older adults.
1 test
2 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Never Too Late
- Welcome to the Course
- Defining the Older Adult
- Gathering Information
- Minimising Risk
- Check Your Understanding
Week 2
Developing Programs For Older Adults
- Goals, Barriers and Motivation
- Applied Training
- Exercise Programs
- Check Your Understanding
- Wrap up
Course 6
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Build a Health and Fitness Business Network
Networking is the key to a succesful business. Learn how to win friends and influence people in the fitness community.
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
Grow Your Fitness Business
- Welcome to the Course
- Building a Business Network
- Check Your Understanding
Week 2
Steps to Building a Fitness Business Network
- Steps to Success
- Check Your Understanding
- Wrap up
Course 7
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Setting
Look after your employees and environment by applying best practice occupation health and safety procedures for gyms and trainers.
1 test
2 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Environment
- Introduction to Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Setting
- Identify Hazards
- Minimise Risk
- Check Your Understanding
Week 2
Participate in Workplace Health and Safety
- Workplace Health and Safety Procedures
- Participation in Workplace Health and Safety
- Check Your Understanding
- Wrap up
Course 8
Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Building a Fitness Community, Client Retention for Trainers
A fitness community that plays together stays together.
1 test
2 weeks
4 hours per week
Week 1
Creating Fans, Not Just Customers
- Welcome to the Course
- Social Media Communities
- Check Your Understanding
Week 2
Use Social Media to Engage Your Clients
- Government Initiatives and Health Promotion Through Social Strategies
- Develop Engaging Material for Social Media
- Check Your Understanding
- Wrap up
Prove you're job ready
Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.
- Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
- Complete each course and pass assessments.
- Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
- Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
- Make your career dreams a reality.
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Join an ExpertTrack to master new skills in your chosen specialist area. Work through a series of topic-focused courses at your own pace, and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate award which proves your expertise.
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World-class learning with Central Queensland University
CQUniversity is Australia’s leading regional university.
Our courses are designed alongside industry and many include hands-on, practical learning experiences and project-based learning. Our commitment to making real-world knowledge and skills accessible to all has seen us being awarded global recognition. We are ranked among the top 2% of Universities in the world.
Established
1992Location
Rockhampton, AustraliaWorld ranking
Top 500Source: QS World University Rankings 2020
This ExpertTrack is accredited by Fitness Australia
Meet your instructors
As a career health and fitness advocate and educator, I want to share the Personal Trainer Toolkit for fitness businesses from start up to existing, and looking to grow your fitness community.
I have been running my own personal training business for 13 years. Experience in personal training, group training, outdoor training, group exercise and management. I now love teaching Fitness at CQU
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