Certificate IV in Fitness

Course details

If you want to be a Personal Trainer, you will need to undertake The Certificate IV in Fitness. This national qualification allows you to train and develop your own clients in an unsupervised setting.

What do you learn in a Certificate IV in Fitness?

The Certificate IV in Fitness course will prepare you to:

• Plan exercise programs for your clients 
  
• Apply your knowledge of exercise science principles 
  
• Undertake client postural appraisals and other fitness tests 
  
• Undertake functional range of movement and muscle testing 
  
• Develop a broad variety of exercise programs 
  
• Run a small business 
  

Some of the topics you will study include:

• Exercise Science 
  
• Advanced Client Screening and assessment procedures
  
• Planning and developing exercise programs for clients
• Special Populations Clients such as teenagers and children
• Small business planning and marketing

The program outcomes for this course are: 

• Workers qualified at a CIV level are primarily employed as personal trainers in a fitness or leisure facility or in their own business.
• This qualification provides a pathway to work in a diversity of fitness industry businesses including fitness centres, gyms, aquatic facilities, community facilities and in open spaces, where risk management (through risk assessment and hazard control processes) does not already exist.
• A study pathway to the Diploma of Sport and Recreation Management - Fitness Stream.
• Preparation for further study and vocational skills with development of study and research skills, language and literacy skills, communication skills, time management, planning and managing projects, interpersonal skills and the development of techniques.