Top 8 Tips for choosing the best Personal Training Course for You
- Accredited: Personal Trainer Courses should be Nationally accredited with post-course seminars to keep your qualifications up to date.
- Value for Money: As a guide, Face to Face Personal Trainer Courses should not exceed $5000 for a full-time 12 week course. Any more than this and you are probably paying too much and not getting value for your money. Remember too, that courses less than $3000 may be false economy if they do not offer the same level of training or are not accredited. Courses less than 12 weeks may not provide essential face to face lecture time, thereby reducing your education.
- Industry experience: Does the course guarantee job placement prior to course completion which will provide you with valuable industry experience. Industry experience will help to increase your chances of getting the best possible job or help you "hit the ground running" in your own business, when you leave the course.
- Useable Business Modules: Today, to become a Personal Trainer most employers will expect you to generate your own leads and new business as well as maintaining your current client base and getting referrals. Ensure your initial course will give you the information and skills you need to make this easier for you as you enter the work force. If you intend to have your own Personal Training business then it is an absolute must you understand how to generate your own business and maintain your client base.
- Experienced Course Trainers: The people training you should not only be qualified and trained as Trainers, they should have industry and life experience. Your trainers should have years of experience working in the field you are studying, because as a Personal Trainer some things can only be taught if they have been experienced firsthand - e.g. how to handle injuries or diseases that can affect how to train a client. Also they should have life experience that allows them to teach you the things they do instinctively.
- Job placement at course completion: Can the centre that is providing the accredited course assist you with finding a job - not just any job, but a good job within the health and fitness industry? Some courses will claim they can guarantee a job, but what sort of job is it?
- Flexible Course starting times and hours: Does the centre that is running your accredited course have flexible course starts? Do they have full time and part time course options? If you are planning on working or you are completing a University course at the same time, you need to ensure it fits with your schedule. It is possible, so make sure you ask.
- Do they care about you and your skills?: Does the centre running your course actually care that you are gaining the very best skills to ensure when you choose to become a personal trainer that you become the best possible trainer, or do they just treat you as a number and take your money? Find a course provider that cares about meeting the changing demands of the public cares about you and your professional development and wants to help the growth of the health and wellness industry.
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