If you are looking for an exciting career as a gym instructor, our range of Gym Instructor Courses and qualifications will get you on the right path. A Gym Instructor career is one of immense variety, enjoyment and above all satisfaction. You will have the great opportunity to work with health club and gym members to help their achieve their physical and mental potential.

Gym Instructor Course Content

The Level 2 Gym Instructor certificate includes a wide range of relevant content, including:

• -Anatomy and physiology
• -Principles of exercise and fitness
• -Resistance training
• -Cardiovascular training
• -Flexibility training
• -Warming-up and cooling down
• -Exercise programming and lesson planning
• -Planning gym-based exercise
• -teaching gym-based exercise

Gym Instructor Assessment

During your course you will be required to undertake:

• -2 multiple choice theory assessments
• -1 Practical assessment
• -1 lesson plan of a complete gym session

Gym Instructor Qualification

At HFE all of our gym instructor courses lead to the CYQ Level 2 certificate in Gym Instruction

Gym Instructor Progression Routes

Once qualified, you will be eligible for employment as a Gym Instructor within the health and fitness profession. Should you wish to further your studies and increase the number of opportunities available to you, you will also be eligible to progress to:

• -Personal Trainer Courses
• -Exercise to Music Qualifications
• -Indoor Cycling
• -Pilates Instructor Courses
• -Nutrition and Weight Management Qualifications

What to Look for in a Gym Instructor Course?

If you are considering completing a level 2 Gym Instructor Course / qualification you must ensure that it is accredited through a regognised awarding body like CYQ, Active IQ, City and Guilds or OCR. CYQ and Active IQ are perhaps the most recognised awarding bodies because they are specialists in health and fitness sector and as such employ specialist staff to manage these qualifications.

The cost of gym instructor courses range  between £450.00-£950.00 depending on the provider and the way in which the gym instructor course is delivered. Direct delivery programmes are usually taught over around 4-6 weeks and on a full-time basis, which is certainly the most expensive route. Blended learning courses require students to undertake a period of distance-learning in their own time, before attending an intensive practical training programme. The blended learning programmes are certainly the most popular route and are also considerably cheaper.

Finally, before you decide which training provider do entrust with your fitness education, you should ensure that you have all of the facts about:

• -how the course is delivered
• -the number of days that the course is delivered and assessed over
• -the quality and type of learning materials
• -the support systems and availability
• -the tutor to student ratio
• -the training providers re-assessment policy and availability*

*Many smaller providers that don’t deliver gym instructor courses that frequently which often results in referred students waiting a considerable amount of time to be re-assessed.