The Complete Personal Trainer program includes a Certificate IV of Fitness and all entry requirement units, as well as a Diploma of Nutrition.
You’ll get the full suite of skills, knowledge, and training needed to become a personal trainer, nutrition advisor, or nutrition coach.
The comprehensive program covers everything from learning how to construct personal training programs for clients and providing healthy nutrition advice. You’ll also learn how to build and run your own business. The Diploma of Nutrition further teaches you to provide nutritional advice and support and help your clients structure their dietary habits to meet specific fitness goals.
All theoretical elements are delivered online, while practical components will be delivered on campus and during physical work placements. The course may take up to 2 years to complete.
Once obtained, the Complete Personal Training & Nutrition Course will enable you to work as a fully qualified:
Plan and deliver group exercise sessions and develop gym-based programs for groups of individuals where the level of personalised instruction and ongoing client monitoring is limited. Group Exercise Instructors often work in settings such as fitness facilities, gyms, and leisure and community centres.
There is typically some confusion in the difference between a Nutrition Advisor and a Dietitian. While both aim to assist individuals in achieving optimal health through diet, a Dietitian has additional qualifications that allow them to provide medical nutritional therapy. A Nutrition Advisor is responsible for working with their clients to create meaningful change in their lifestyle with nutritional advice and support. This includes working one-on-one with clients to provide services such as diet and exercise plans, progress tracking and implementing a course of action or referring them to medical health professionals when necessary.
Follow your passion for health and fitness with a career as a Nutrition Coach. A Nutrition Coach’s role focuses on helping their clients build practices and make changes to their diet to optimise their health. There are many reasons why an individual would seek help from a Nutrition Coach; they might have a fitness or performance goal they’re working towards, or simply a desire to improve their quality of life and prevent diet-related disease. As a Nutrition Coach, you’ll have a solid understanding of nutrition science and how to tailor a program to meet an individual’s specific needs, as well as being able to successfully motivate them to stay on track.
Before commencing SIS40221 Certificate IV in Fitness, students are required to complete and be deemed competent in the below units of competency, (or superseded units), which are available as part of the SIS30321 Certificate III in Fitness.
First Aid: You must obtain HLTAID011 Provide First Aid from an external provider. This cost is not included in your course fee; however, AIPT has an agreement with Red Cross Australia (RTO 3605) to provide first-aid training to our students at a reduced price. You can choose to take advantage of this arrangement or pursue this unit of competency via another training provider.
Education: You will need to have completed year 12, or equivalent. Equivalency can be demonstrated by one of the following:
Minimum Age: To commence the Complete Personal Training Course, you need to be aged 17 years or older. Entry to 10967NAT Diploma of Nutrition is limited to people aged 18 years or older. This is because the Diploma of Nutrition requires you to handle confidential client health information and may expose you to challenging and emotionally confronting situations.
Residency Status: You need to be a permanent Australian resident or equivalent.
Literacy and Numeracy: You will need to possess a high level of language, literacy and numeracy skills – sufficient to interpret complex documents and communicate with clients and others from a range of backgrounds and a variety of ages(including children)
Working with Children Check: For the work placement portion of your course, you may need a current “Working with Children Check Clearance” issued by the relevant authority in your state/territory.
* In order to complete your Work Placement, you may be required to hold a current “Working with Children Check Clearance” issued by the relevant Responsible Authority in the State or Territory in which you will undertake this course. Please see the Student Handbook for more information.
Practical Assessment: Please be aware some of your assessments require you to source participants to role-play clients, please work with your mentor to secure the required number.