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Personal Training: 7th training attendance weekend
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Hurrah! I’m almost at the end of my course and it’s amazing to think I’ll soon be able to take on clients – and get paid for helping them!
Personal Training: 6th training attendance weekend
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010My latest attendance weekend was a fairly tough experience, with two nutrition exams, both practical and theoretical lessons on how to help clients come back from injury, and much time spent playing catch up from the weekend I’d missed last month.
Studying to be a personal trainer: 5th Attendance weekend
Monday, November 30th, 2009Training part-time to be a PT has so far spanned four months and I have another three months to go, so it was bound to happen that one of my attendance weekends clashed with a holiday or illness, or both in my case.
Studying to be a personal trainer: 4th Attendance weekend
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009After qualifying as a gym instructor my latest attendance weekend threw me in to the real business of becoming a personal trainer – and boy, was it fun!
Studying to be a personal trainer: 3rd Attendance weekend
Monday, September 28th, 2009After four months of studying, I’ve completed the first part of my course and I am now a fully-qualified gym instructor. Woo hoo! The achievement only sank in after I received a lovely certificate through the post (my mum and dad were so proud), and it’s exciting to think I could now go and work [...]
Studying to be a personal trainer: 2nd Attendance weekend
Thursday, August 20th, 2009All fitness and gym instructors need to have an up-to-date Certificate in First Aid so they are prepared for any accidents happen in the gym, so I found myself spending a whole day of my second assessment weekend practising CPR on dummies, rolling my classmates into the recovery position and wrapping them up with slings [...]
Studying to be a personal trainer: 1st Attendance weekend
Monday, July 20th, 2009After a month of hard-core studying and experiencing a de-ja-vu- like feeling of being back in school doing GCSE Biology, it was time to put everything I’d learned from my manual reading and online classes – covering the Skeletal, Neuromuscular, Cardio Respiratory and Energy systems – into action during my first practical assessment weekend.
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Studying to be a personal trainer: explaining Premier Training’s ‘Blended’ part-time course and online learning.
Thursday, June 18th, 2009I chose to train as a personal trainer with Premier Training International because they offer a ‘Blended’ part-time course. The ‘Blended’ option is so-called because it blends face-to-face teaching and assessments and traditional methods of learning (like studying from a manual) with online studying, which includes ‘e-classes’, pod casts and interactive presentations.
Studying to be a personal trainer: the tarsals are connected to the phalanges … the humerus is connected to the…oh, what was it again?
Friday, May 29th, 2009I’m currently on my third week of studying to be a Certified Gym Instructor – which you have to be qualified in before you can train to be a personal trainer – and my first attendance weekend of practical sessions is looming fast.
Studying to be a Personal Trainer: Finding the right course for you
Monday, May 18th, 2009It’s been a long-held dream of mine to become a personal trainer. Long before I ever started working for Health & Fitness magazine, I’d trained as an aerobics instructor and had loved having a part-time job that fitted around my full-time work commitments, that was fun, rewarding, and combined helping people get fit and build [...]