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This foundation module covers the professional standards, health and safety responsibilities and duty of care that underpin safe personal training practice. You'll learn the core principles of fitness and health, and how the body responds and adapts to training. It also covers client screening and assessment, running a consultation, and setting goals that hold up in practice. The module closes with professional and reflective practice, building habits you'll keep using after you qualify. By the end, you'll have the grounding to work with any client, in any setting.

Across eighteen lessons, this module builds a working knowledge of the skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous and endocrine systems, and how each responds to exercise. You'll cover how muscles contract, how the body's energy systems fuel different types of training, and how posture, core stability and the spine work together. The aim isn't memorising terms — it's learning to read what's happening in a client's body and apply that to your programming. The module finishes with flexibility and stretching methods, and when to use each one. It's detailed content, but every lesson ties back to what you'll actually do in a session.

This module covers how to design, structure and deliver training programmes, including programme design principles, training systems and progression models. You'll learn to structure sessions that build logically over time, and how to monitor and evaluate client performance. It also covers the delivery side: coaching a session, communicating effectively, and using equipment safely. The final lessons look at behaviour change and motivation strategies, since even a strong programme depends on client adherence. By the end, you'll be able to plan and run sessions with real confidence.

This module covers digestion and metabolism, then macronutrients, micronutrients and hydration, and how each affects performance, health and body composition. You'll apply that knowledge to goals like weight management, muscle gain and athletic performance, along with considerations specific to different clients. It also covers how to run a nutrition consultation: gathering accurate information, reading a food diary, and knowing when a topic needs sensitivity or a referral to a dietitian. Throughout, the focus stays on what's within a personal trainer's professional scope. By the end, you'll be able to give evidence-based, ethical nutrition guidance alongside your training programmes.

This module covers the business side of personal training, starting with defining your role, your unique selling point and the business culture you want to build. It moves into marketing — finding clients, building a marketing plan and setting up sales systems — along with the legal, compliance and financial basics of running a business. You'll also look at technology and industry trends shaping the profession. The module closes with a final project: writing your own business plan, ready to put into action.

This module puts everything you've learned into practice with a real client. Over a structured ten-week case study, you'll plan and deliver a full training programme, adapting it session by session based on how your client responds. You'll write and reflect on individual session plans, track progress, and evaluate the programme against the goals you set at the start. You'll also gather your client's feedback and compare it against your own view before drawing conclusions on what worked. By the end, you'll have a full record of a real coaching relationship, from consultation to final evaluation.