ICPT - FITNESS ACADEMY EUROPE MALTA

INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER (ICPT) TRAINING COURSE

Level 3 and Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training

FAE IS THE EUROPEAN LEADER IN HEALTH & FITNESS EDUCATION

LEVEL

EQF/MQF Level 4

ECTS

Duration

9 Months

Language

English

Accreditation

MFHEA and EREPs

Further education programme

DELIVERY METHODS

Blended learning with weekend workshops running every 6 months

WORKSHOP LENGTH

Option of hybrid learning or attending between 12 and 15 workshop days from 09:00 to 17:00

EXPECTED COURSE LENGTH

This qualification can be achieved within 6 – 8 months. FAE has a maximum expected completion timeframe of 12 months.

ACCREDITED ACHIEVEMENT

MFHEA, ICREPS, EREPs, REPs MALTA

LOCATION

Option of hybrid learning or workshop attendance in Hilltop Gardens,Triq l-Inkwina, In-Naxxar, Malta

PAYMENT METHODS

0% Interest-Free Instalment

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WHAT IS YOUR PLAN FOR YOUR FUTURE?

Interested in being an accredited Personal Trainer:

The Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training provides a safe route for those wanting to work as a Qualified Personal Trainer in the Health and Fitness Sector.

The first step towards a career in health and fitness:

The Level 3 Award in Fitness Instructing may be a more appropriate starting point.

You are already a Level 3 Fitness Instructor and want to be an Accredited Personal Trainer:

The Level 4 Award in Personal Training is the next step for you.

The EQF/MQF Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing & Personal Training is awarded by Fitness Academy Europe Malta (FAEM). It allows access to the European Registry of Exercise Professionals (EREPS) as well as The International Confederation of Registers of Exercise Professionals (ICREPs)

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Introduction

Becoming an Accredited Personal Trainer is not only financially profitable but also emotionally rewarding, as there is nothing more satisfying than helping others in achieving their goals.
The FAE Malta Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instruction and Personal Training provides a thorough overview of the field. The FAE Malta Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instruction and Personal Training has been carefully crafted by fitness experts to support those with no prior qualifications, allowing you to enter the industry as a qualified Personal Trainer right away, whether you want to work in a gym, start your own freelance business, or become an online personal trainer.
The FAE Malta Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instruction and Personal Training offers a safe route for those wanting to work as a Personal Trainer in the Health and Fitness Sector.

Personal Training License

Job Purpose

Coach clients individually according to their fitness needs, through an agreed exercise/physical activity plan and assist with behavioral change.

Job Description

A personal trainer’s role includes designing, implementing and evaluating exercise/physical activity programmes for a range of individual clients by collecting and analyzing client information to ensure the effectiveness of personal exercise programmes. A personal trainer should also actively encourage potential clients/members to participate in and adhere to regular exercise/physical activity programmes, employing appropriate motivational strategies to achieve this.

Collect information relating to individual clients
Carry out fitness assessments to establish client fitness and skill level
Analyse information relating to individual clients
Identify, agree and review short, medium and long term goals to ensure the effectiveness of exercise programmes
Provide a range of exercise programmes in accordance with the needs of the clients by applying principles of exercise programming
Make best use of the environment in which clients are exercising
Provide clients with accurate information on the principles of nutrition and weight management
Develop and applying strategies to motivate clients to join and adhere to an exercise programme
Deliver good customer service and be a positive role model at all times and keep up to date with industry developments
Promote healthy activities and related strategies for daily living to clients/members
Make the appropriate decisions relating to clients and their programmes/goals and, where required, refer the client to a more appropriate professional
Work within the parameters given at Level 4, recognizing the standards and professional limitations that this provides, referring to appropriate members of staff for guidance and support.

Delivery Methods

Workshop days are delivered every other Saturday with a new course starting every 6-8 months. With our commitment to the flexibility of delivery, you can spread your learning time frame over a period of 8 to 12 months.
Whichever study method you choose you are supported throughout your program via exceptional tutor support, an E-learning portal, and other study materials.

Course Structure

For the FAE Malta Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instruction and Personal Training, learners can attend between 12, and 15 workshop days.
The workshop day option requires attendance to present at least 80% of the GLH. This is to ensure that all assessments can be completed. If you choose to attend additional workshop days, these days would be 100% learning days where you would review your understanding and practice the application under the guidance of an experienced tutor.
In order to achieve your Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instruction and Personal Training, these workshops do not have to be attended as part of the same cohort. For example, those learners wishing to attend all workshop days in quick succession could attend the full days of a specific cohort. Another learner may wish to space their learning out or be unable to attend a given date, therefore they could spread their attendance between 2, 3 or more cohorts.
We would advise learners to leave themselves sufficient time in order to complete suitable learning before attending workshop days. This helps learners maximise the learning benefit and chances of a successful assessment. Your tutor would advise you on how best to do this.
Prior to, during, and after the personal training course, you will be supported by a highly qualified and experienced tutor. As a minimum, all personal training qualification learners are supported via mandatory 1 on 1 live webinars with your tutor on a monthly basis. During these visits learning activities are reviewed and new ones are agreed upon with suitable support provided. As all learners have their own circumstances, additional webinars, phone, and email support are provided to learners when necessary.

The Level 3 Certificate in Fitness Instructing workshop is delivered over Five days. The workshops are delivered every other Saturday and are structured so you can attend all 5 days and match your workshop dates over a 4-month period, depending on your personal situation and preferred time frame.

Pre-Workshop

Before attending your Level 3 Fitness Instructor workshop, we recommend completing the three primary sections of the Fitness Assistant online learning to cover the more theoretical units and content of the course. Typically, you should have submitted and passed all your assessments for:

How the body works
How to adopt an active healthy lifestyle
How to ensure a safe,clean, and friendly environment

Anatomy & Physiology for Health and Fitness

When you attend the Level 3 Fitness Instructor workshop, the days predominantly focus on the practical aspects of your qualification, as well as providing opportunities to embed some of the theoretical content that you have previously learned.

By completing these personal training qualification units prior to your attendance, you will have completed the majority of the theoretical content of your level 4 personal training qualification and attained five out of the six units.

When you attend the Level 4 personal trainer workshop, the days predominantly focus on the practical aspects of your qualification, as well as provide opportunities to embed some of the theoretical content that you have previously learned.

Post Workshop Days

After attending the workshop days, your FAE Malta tutor will support you in completing the final component, which consists of a 15-40 hour internship. Your options are numerous and may include working as an online personal trainer, a self-employed freelance personal trainer, or an employed personal trainer at a facility of your choice.

The career options available following the completion of your Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training don’t just stop there. With FAE Malta there are options to progress onto other Level 4 and higher qualifications such as the Level 4 Diploma in Sports Massage, the Level 4 Diploma in Exercise Referral , and eventually become a Level 5 Specialist in Weight Management, Obesity,Nutrition,Strength & Conditioning and Diabetes.

Whichever path you choose, FAE Malta will provide unbiased support and guidance to ensure you make the right steps towards your career in health and fitness and provide you with the most updated scientifically proven health and fitness qualifications that are nationally and internationally recognised.

Learning Resources

After you sign up for the Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training, you’ll get an email with instructions on how to join. This gives you access to the learning materials for your Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training.
You will discover that these tools offer you access to all of the worksheets, necessary manuals, mock tests, case study documents, and knowledge checkers that you will require. Because the resources have been thoughtfully organised in the appropriate unit order, you should have no trouble navigating through them all. The combination of all of these resources will guarantee that you are well-prepared for both the test and the workshop.

A tutor will then be in contact in the next few working days to schedule your online induction which will usually last for 60-90 minutes.
You will receive ongoing support from your tutor but also be able to communicate with them via email, phone, and request additional webinar support when requested.
There are many different resources that you can use on our platform that is modeled after “Netflix,” and each of these plays a function in assisting you in getting the most out of your learning journey.
Your on-program teacher will provide you with lessons that contain a variety of educational materials for you to work through. These will assist you in reaching each milestone of the personal training qualification you are working towards.

You’ll get access to the following:

A variety of high-quality study materials.

Access to an online learning platform featuring extensive content that has been developed expressly for each individual training course unit.
Online Learning

You will have the option to check your understanding of each unit using a knowledge checker. Each question in the knowledge checker has been carefully selected from a very large question bank. These might be true or false, multiple choice, fill in the blank, mark the words or any number of other types of questions!
Exercise library

You will have an access to our exercise library with over 700 different exercises. Whether you're a beginning exerciser who needs help getting started or someone who wants to add some spice to your fitness routine, our FAE Malta Exercise Library offers a variety of movements to choose from. Browse through total-body exercises or movements that target more specific areas of the body. Each comes with a detailed description and photos to help ensure proper form.

Workshop Days

You are required to go to a workshop as part of the curriculum for your personal training course. On each of these days, there will be a total of four sessions: two in the morning and two in the afternoon. A review of previously acquired knowledge is followed immediately by an exercise that puts that information to use during each and every session. You will have the opportunity to have open conversations in an atmosphere that is both encouraging and friendly during these sessions, which are led by our knowledgeable personal trainers.

You may check out the reviews that people have left about our personal training workshop days on Google. There have been a lot of favorable comments.

Recorded Submissions

We strongly encourage you to provide your own recordings of your approach, delivery, and consulting styles so that we can better support online and distant learning. This can be accomplished by providing your instructor with a link to a recording of you speaking, which they will then listen to and provide you with valuable feedback on. This provides you with the additional benefit of ongoing support between the days of your personal training course, allowing you to ensure that you are continuing to develop and use your newly acquired abilities.

This works both ways; you may also expect your personal training course tutor to deliver recorded demonstrations and further explanations in the same way, depending on the circumstances.

Example Pro-forma’s

Worksheets, case studies, and assignments will need to be turned in at various stages throughout the Level 4 Personal Training course that you are taking. We realise that you may not be familiar with this procedure, so in order to help you have a better grasp of what is expected of you, we will provide you with some examples of completed proformas.

Whichever pathway you choose, FAE Malta will provide unbiased support and guidance to ensure you make the right steps towards your career in health and fitness and provide you with the most updated scientifically proven health and fitness qualifications that are nationally and internationally recognized.

The career options available following the completion of your Level 4 Diploma in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training don’t just stop there. With FAE there are options to progress onto other Level 4 and higher qualifications such as the Level 4 Diploma in Sports Massage, the Level 4 Diploma in Long Term Conditions, and eventually become a Level 5 Specialist in Weight Management, Obesity, and Diabetes.

Course Content & Assessment

The Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training qualification are accredited by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority (MFHEA) and Europe Active,European Register of Exercise Professionals( EREPs), and The International Confederation of Registers of Exercise Professionals (ICREPs), the leading awarding bodies in the health and fitness sector.

The Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training qualification are structured into three primary sections and six modules, each teaching you the vital knowledge needed to become a successful, internationally certified personal trainer.

Section 1:

How the body works
Section 2:

How to adopt an active healthy lifestyle
Section 3:

How to ensure a safe,clean, and friendly environment
Module 1:

Anatomy & Physiology for Health and Fitness
Module 2:

Fitness Instructor
Module 3:

Nutrition for Health and Fitness
Module 4:

Business skills for Personal Training
Module 5:

Consultation, Testing and Programme Design
Module 6:

Exercise Instruction for Personal Training

Course Highlights

Maximize Your Learning Experience

Exercise Science:

Understand human anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics for effective training.
Program Design:

Create tailored workout plans that align with individual client goals and fitness levels.
Client Consultation:

Client Consultation: Conduct comprehensive assessments to evaluate fitness levels and establish wellness goals.
Behavior Change Techniques:

Learn strategies to help clients adopt and maintain healthy lifestyle changes.
Nutrition Basics:

Nutrition Basics: Gain essential knowledge of nutrition principles to support clients' fitness objectives.
Client Assessment and Progress Tracking:

Monitor client progress with regular evaluations and adjust programs accordingly.
Motivation Strategies:

Employ techniques to encourage and sustain client motivation throughout their fitness journey.
Professional Ethics:

Uphold ethical practices in personal training.

Payment Methods and Structures

The Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training is priced at €2500

At FAE Malta, we are committed to making payment for your Level 4 Personal Training qualification as accessible and straightforward as possible.
We offer two flexible payment options for the combined Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training:

- Full Payment Upfront
- Instalment Plan, five payments of €500 each
Please be aware that FAE Malta will never request your bank details over the phone or via email. Under no circumstances should you share your payment information through these channels.

Entry Requirements

Learners wishing to complete the Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training should be:

While this qualification is for people who are at least 18 years old this is an entry-level qualification for anyone who wants to work in the fitness sector aged 16 years old or above but does not have any official qualifications. While candidates under the age of 18 are not prohibited from working in this field, it is likely that they may have problems getting the personal liability insurance coverage required.
We recommend that you have experience of gym-based exercise including free weights, although this is not essential.
You should be fit enough to cope with the physical exertion and individual participation involved in the course. FAE Malta tutors will tailor your personal experience to your fitness, health, and experience level and we would not discourage anybody from attending on the grounds of health, fitness or disability. In some instances, a doctor's permission may be required in order to attend workshop days and assessment days.
It is highly suggested that you have some gym-based exercise experience, especially free weights. The course necessitates physical exertion and individual participation, so a level of physical fitness is required, however, this will be tailored for each learner by FAE Malta.

Next Steps

Completion of the Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training qualification allows progression on to further CPD and career development opportunities.

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Level 3 and Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training

LEVEL

ECTS

Duration

Language

Accreditation

DELIVERY METHODS

WORKSHOP LENGTH

EXPECTED COURSE LENGTH

ACCREDITED ACHIEVEMENT

LOCATION

PAYMENT METHODS

Get Qualified Scheme

WHAT IS YOUR PLAN FOR YOUR FUTURE?

Interested in being an accredited Personal Trainer:

The first step towards a career in health and fitness:

You are already a Level 3 Fitness Instructor and want to be an Accredited Personal Trainer:

TO BOOK CHOOSE YOUR PREFERRED COURSE DATES BELOW

List of locations and centers available

Job Purpose

Job Description

Anatomy & Physiology for Health and Fitness

Post Workshop Days

A variety of high-quality study materials.

Online Learning

Exercise library

Workshop Days

Recorded Submissions

Example Pro-forma’s

Section 1:

Section 2:

Section 3:

Module 1:

Module 2:

Module 3:

Module 4:

Module 5:

Module 6:

Exercise Science:

Program Design:

Client Consultation:

Behavior Change Techniques:

Nutrition Basics:

Client Assessment and Progress Tracking:

Motivation Strategies:

Professional Ethics:

The Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training is priced at €2500

Get Qualified Scheme

Pay in Installments or Full

Learners wishing to complete the Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training should be:

Completion of the Level 3 & Level 4 Awards in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training qualification allows progression on to further CPD and career development opportunities.

Pay in Installments or Full

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