Diploma in Exercise Referral Level 3

Course Description

Career Progression & Entry Requirements

Learners should be over 16 and hold one or more of the following:

• Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instructing or equivalent
• Level 3 Certificate in Personal Training
• Level 3 Diploma in Teaching Pilates
• Level 3 Diploma in Teaching Yoga

The Diploma in Exercise Referral Level 3 can lead to employment as an ‘Exercise Referral Instructor’ or a role that involves tailoring exercise for people with medical conditions

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Course Content

This comprehensive course aims to equip the learner with the skills, knowledge and understanding required to plan and instruct programmes for exercise referral.

It covers training in:

• Body’s various systems and their relation to exercise and health
• Posture and core stability
• Anatomy and physiology as applicable to personal training
• Nutrition and its application to support a client’s health and physical activity programme
• How to collect and use information relating to nutrition
• The relationship between nutrition and physical activity
• The principles of collecting information to plan an exercise referral programme
• How to plan, prepare, monitor and adapt an exercise referral programme with patients and understand the importance of long-term behaviour change for these patients
• The current healthcare systems in the UK and the exercise referral process
• The concept of a patient-centred approach
• The clinical features of medical conditions relevant to exercise referral programmes

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Course Details

Programme Duration: *380 hours

Funding: All of our Active Futures courses can be funded commercially or through government funding. Please enquire to find out more.