This is an unbelievably professional package that will take you from unqualified enthusiast to qualified Personal Trainer and Advanced Functional Trainer. You will benefit both from the financial package which offers amazing value and from the continuity of using the one training provider to take you all the way. At AFT level, you have the choice between AFT Performance and AFT Therapy, according to your own area of interest. Read on below to find out about each of the four courses.
Level 2 Gym Instructor Course
Personal Destination – Completing this Level 2 course allows you to instruct people on how to use gym equipment and gives basic programming ability. This course is a vocationally related qualification (VRQ) at Level 2 on the National Qualifications Framework. It also provides access onto the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) at Level 2.
Designed for – People with no fitness industry qualifications who wish to enter the industry.
Time to Destination – 4 weeks to complete – 1 day live for theory and practical assessment at the end.
Route to Destination – a Facebook group bonds students with support from the mentor. Videos instruct the key elements of the course with tasks along the way to enhance learning. A FASTER Personal Trainer can be hired independently if the learner wishes to have face to face time.
Contents
* Exercise and Fitness Knowledge
* Health, Safety and Professionalism in Exercise and Fitness Instruction
* Instructing Gym
Assessment and Paperwork
* 105 minute theory exam – 50 multiple choice questions
* 90 minute practical exam in the gym
* Learner Achievement Portfolio
Level 3 Personal Trainer Course
Personal Destination – Obtaining Level 3 allows the Gym Instructor to progress from showing club members basic gym exercises to intermediate programmes. Personal Trainer is a vocationally related qualification (VRQ), at Level 3 on the National Qualifications Framework and allows access the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) at Level 3.
Designed for – People qualified to Level 2, wishing to progress to Level 3.
Time to Destination – 4 weeks to complete – 1 day live for theory and practical assessment at the end.
Route to Destination – a Facebook group bonds students with support from the mentor. Videos instruct the key elements of the course with tasks along the way to enhance learning. A FASTER Personal Trainer can be hired independently if the learner wishes to have face to face time.
Contents
* Health, Fitness and Lifestyle Analysis
* Advanced Exercise and Fitness Knowledge
* Advanced Resistance Training
* Advanced Cardiovascular Training
* Nutrition and Weight Management Advice
* Plan, Market and Sell Personal Training Services
Assessment and Paperwork
* 105 minute theory paper – 50 multiple choice questions
* 75 minute theory paper – 30 multiple choice questions
* 90 minute practical assessment – gym session with client
* Nutrition Case Study
* Learner Achievement Portfolio
Advanced Functional Trainer – Performance
Training clients for performance is tough: it involves getting your clients, who are already good at something, better! To be good at something, you need to have the ability to repeatedly and consistently produce an outcome. However, the better you are at something, the easier it will be to cover up any deficiencies you have biomechanically and still produce a result. The short term effect of any cover-up will be a slight change in performance, the long term issue with this could be a complete loss of form, or injury.
Unlike with AFT Therapy, where the client comes in with a diagnosed injury that produces a pattern of dysfunction, when training clients for performance you are going to be faced with a client that is adept at hiding their deficiencies and so you may need to tease the left/ right imbalance, strength or range issue.
In AFT Performance we show you how to work on a skill that the majority of people can do to the standard of ‘athlete’ so we look at walking. The course is set out to show you how to understand the principles behind FASTER’s training thought process, how to carry out an assessment, with solutions applied directly to the client, and finally how to bring this alive in your programme.
This course is taught live, where we use other movements as well as walking to demonstrate conclusively that the thought process works across all movements.
Advanced Functional Trainer – Therapy
At FASTER we respect the fact that as a Personal Trainer you cannot speed up the recovery of an injury (in fact many therapies are about reducing the effects of the injury or protecting the injured site, rather than treating or fixing the area.
You can make sure that the client does not lose as much – or in some cases any – conditioning in areas of the body that would become weak, and while doing so, you could help reduce the chances of the same injury recurring, or a secondary injury arising from overuse of other body parts.
We only ever work on clients with diagnosed injuries, who have been cleared to train, and we never work against the advice of the qualified medical practitioner who has diagnosed and then assisted the client.
When working with an injury, we look at the effects the compensation pattern, caused by protecting the injury, will have on the conditioning of the rest of the chain. For example a dislocated shoulder would have a detrimental effect on the thoracic spine, by reducing the amount of rotation and lateral flexion it goes through daily.
In order to see this working you need to be familiar with our functional training approach to promoting motion, muscle reactivity and biomechanics alongside some injuries and how you would compensate around them.
This is our live two day course.
- Principles of Function
- Joint Movements
- Exercises Creation
- Injury Definition and Consequence
- Muscles in Function
- Exercise Building
The prices quoted above are for Group Level 2, Level 3 and AFT.
This package is also available as a 1:1 package at £1909
Please contact us for more details of either the Group or 1:1 packages.
- Description
- L2+L3+AFT
