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Certificate IV in Fitness

Certificate

This qualification reflects the role of personal trainers who develop, instruct and evaluate personalised exercise programs for generally healthy and low risk clients, to achieve specific fitness goals. Clients with higher health risks are referred to medical or allied health professionals.

Key details

Degree Type

Certificate

Course Code

SIS40221

Study Mode

In person

About this course

Personal trainers work independently using highly developed fitness skills and knowledge in both routine and unpredictable situations. They use well-developed communication and collaboration skills to interact with clients and health professionals to improve client fitness outcomes.

This qualification provides a pathway to work as an employed or self-employed personal trainer in settings such as fitness facilities, gyms, leisure and community centres, client workplaces and homes, and outdoor locations. Personal trainers may offer services to individuals and groups, and may provide online training services. In some employment contexts, personal trainers may be involved in team leadership or supervisory activities.

The skills in this qualification must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State or Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

This is a nationally recognised accredited course.

Entry requirements

Students are required to complete the bksb (basic key skills builder) online literacy and numeracy assessment prior to enrolment unless the student has completed an equal or higher level course.

Entry to this qualification is open to individuals who hold the following units of competency or units that have been superseded by these units or completion of a superseded Certificate III in Fitness:

Entry requirements	Or units that superseded those units, such as:
HLTAID011	Provide First Aid (or a unit that supersedes this unit)	HLTAID003
HLTWHS001	Participate in workplace health and safety	Same
SISFFIT032	Complete pre-exercise screening and service orientation	SISFFIT001 - Provide health screening and fitness orientation
SISFFIT033	Complete client fitness assessments	SISFFIT006 - Conduct fitness appraisals
SISFFIT035	Plan group exercise sessions	SISFFIT007 - Instruct group exercise sessions or SISFFIT023 - Instruct group personal training programs
SISFFIT036	Instruct group exercise sessions	SISFFIT007 - Instruct group exercise session or SISFFIT009 - Deliver pre-choreographed or prescribed community fitness or SISFFIT010 - Deliver pre-choreographed or prescribed group exercise to music or SISFFIT011 - Instruct approved community fitness programs or SISFFIT023 - Instruct group personal training programs
SISFFIT040	Develop and instruct gym-based exercise programs for individual clients	SISFFIT003 - Instruct fitness programs
SISFFIT047	Use anatomy and physiology knowledge to support safe and effective exercise	SISFFIT004 - Incorporate anatomy and physiology principles into fitness programming
SISFFIT052	Provide healthy eating information	SISFFIT005 - Provide healthy eating information

Study locations

Bundaberg

Mackay City

Cairns

Career pathways

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Health Services & Support courses at CQUniversity Australia (CQU).

85%

Overall satisfaction

85.1%

Skill scale

71.4%

Teaching scale

82.9%

Employed full-time

$74.6k

Average salary

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