Level 3 Award in Nutrition for Sport and Exercise Performance from Active IQ online
This online course is perfect to take your nutritional knowledge to the next level. It is aimed at sports professionals and will allow you to tailor your clients nutrition to their performance. Obviously this only works if your clients don't cheat!
As this is a specialist course you need to have one of the following:
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Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instructing.
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Active IQ Level 2 Certificate in Gym Instructing.
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Active IQ Level 2 Certificate in Group Training.
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Active IQ Level 3 Award in Nutrition for Physical Activity, or
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Active IQ Level 3 Award in Nutrition for Exercise and Health.
We will develop your understanding of nutrition for sport and exercise performance, which includes things like, a healthy balanced diet to optimise performance, how to access information for this and which information is credible. We will also take you through the benefits and risks of nutritional protocols that your clients might use to prepare for specific fitness events.
As well as this you will learn the current scientific evidence that relates to supplements and ergogenic aids. This way you will know what is safe, legal and how they can be used within a healthy diet and training programme.
Level 4 Certificate in Advanced Personal Training from Active IQ online
This course is great to develop your career, within personal training. It is a fairly new qualification and therefore not many trainers have this currently. As it is a level 4 course, you will need to have completed your level 3 Diploma in Personal Training and this course will take your skills as a trainer to the next level.
You will learn enhanced knowledge and skills to develop your clients using evidence-based programmes to provide you with a successful and sustainable business. As part of this we will cover:
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How to find credible information to train people and develop your practice
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Using technology and social media to support your clients' training journey
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How to assess, analyse and evaluate the training of your clients to manage their journey
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Designing and applying long term planning, coaching and feedback to ensure your clients have long term success
If this sounds like a course you would benefit from get in touch with us. We think it is a great course for existing personal trainers, looking to differentiate themselves from other trainers in their area.
Level 4 Certificate in Sports Massage Therapy from Active IQ
This is our course for those brilliant Level 3 SMT people! Yes you do need to be Level 3 in Sports Massage Therapy qualified to do this course (take a look at our Wellness courses if you are not already a Sports Massage Therapist).
In this course you will learn all kinds of extra stuff, from anatomy and physiology to common dysfunctional patterns in soft tissue, how to use ice and heat to treat and support clients, as well as different assessment techniques allowing that extra level of knowledge compared to level 3.
We will show you how to complete both subjective and objective assessments, so that you can treat clients more effectively, how to devise treatment plans to help correct identified areas of soft tissue dysfunction and how you can evaluate the sports massage treatments you do for each client.
At the end of this course, you will have built on your current knowledge and have learnt more in depth assessing techniques and massage treatments ensuring you provide the best service you can to your clients.
