PT Course Content Overview

Understanding the fitness industry in New Zealand.

• REPs and Networking
• Workplace Health and Safety
• Equipment

Examining the muscle and skeletal structures of the human body and how we use energy.

• Anatomical Terminology
• Skeletal Structure and Function
• Muscle Structure and Function
• Cardiac and Respiratory System
• Nervous System
• Hormones
• Energy Systems
• Biomechanics

Exploring nutrition and digestion in relation to health and performance.

Scope of Practice:

• Terminology
• Carbohydrates
• Protein
• Fats
• Digestion

Providing exercise pre-screening and customer service.

• Communication Skills
• Customer Service
• Engaging with Clients
• Heart Rate and Blood Pressure
• Anthropometry
• Fitness and Strength Testing

Exploring methods of exercise prescription and considerations for exercise programming.

• Exercise Prescription
• Programming Rules
• Cardiovascular Training
• Session Delivery
• Program Tracking

Instructing group exercise classes.

• Group Development
• The Planning Process
• Instructing a Circuit Class

Health conditions and how to accommodate exercise for them.

• Introduction to Special Populations
• Heart Conditions
• Metabolic Conditions
• Asthma and Arthritis
• Pregnancy
• Mental Health

Starting your business with business planning.

• Job Applications
• Business Planning
• Financial Planning
• Marketing

Behavioural change and delivering personal training sessions.

• Personal Training Sessions and Delivery
• Behavioural Change
• Body Composition

Session planning and assessing your client’s performance.

• Postural Analysis
• Screening Recommendations
• Exercise Variations
• Phases of Adaption

Personal training for children and actively ageing clients.

• Children
• Actively Aging Clients
• Referrals

Periodisation, deloading, considerations for endurance training and movement screening.

• Performance
• Sports Training
• Periodisation
• Deloading
• Endurance
• Movement Screening

Practical session to demonstrate your ability to program for and interact with clients.

We are here to help budding fitness professionals get to where they want to be.

We know exactly what it takes to make it in this industry, with an expert team that has more than 90 years combined experience in the world of fitness and education. 

From online to face-to-face learning, studying with us is more than just earning a qualification. Our graduates stay in touch, with supported job opportunities and future career development long past their graduation date. 
Fit Futures Academy has enlisted the help and expertise of high-profile fitness industry leaders from across the industry to develop our curriculum. That means years of research, refined, to develop a programme that caters to students’ individual needs.

From online to face-to-face study, we offer our students the options to learn in a way that best suits them. Fitting around your lifestyle, it is important to us that you are able to study easily around other commitments. Catering to your needs and going at your pace.

Fit Futures Academy has invested heavily in building a cutting-edge online learning platform that will guide you through the course material, as well as making sure that you have a professional tutor to personally support you throughout the duration of your studies.

In the course, you’ll cover everything you need to become a successful personal trainer, including but not limited to anatomy and physiology, nutrition, group training, programming, working with special populations and training for sports performance.

In addition to the above, you’ll have the opportunity to spend 40 hours completing the practical experience in a local gym or other REPs registered facility.

We allow 12 months to complete the Certificate in Personal Training course and if you’re investing just 5-10 hours per week you will comfortably complete the course in that time.

You can complete the online course from the comfort of your own home, anywhere in New Zealand.

There is a 40-hour work experience component that can be completed in your local gym, working with a REPs-registered trainer or REPs-registered facility and you can either submit assessments by video or arrange a live Skype or Zoom call with your tutor.

If you’re in Auckland or Christchurch, you can choose to enrol for our face-to-face study. We call this our fast-track course as it includes 16 weeks of part-time study with two classes per week. This includes similar content to our online option, but you have that classroom setting to learn, connect with peers and ask questions of your tutor. Assessments and material are still completed online.

There is also a 40-hour work experience component for this mode of study, that can be completed in your local gym, working with a REPs-registered trainer or REPs-registered facility. 

In order to complete your studies, you will enter an independent assessment process. Once this is passed, you will have met all individual education requirements to register with the NZ Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) and we take care of that process for you.

Our graduates enjoy their first year of REPs registration, valued at up to $460, paid for by Fit Futures Academy. Internationally recognised, REPs registration gives independent verification that a registered individual meets the industry standards of personal training and if you’re thinking of travelling, REPs registration is internationally recognised.

With your REPs registration, you have your insurance and accreditation to work in the industry with no limits.