Sport & Exercise

Personal Training is a popular and growing area as people strive to live healthier lives. This course equips you with expert skills, alongside providing the evidence base that underpins and informs your practice.

Developed around the core sport science disciplines, the course produces highly competent and analytical personal trainers. It includes a business module, so you will be well placed to move into employment or set up your own business as a personal trainer when you have graduated.

This is an award of Teesside University delivered in partnership with Middlesbrough College at their Middlehaven campus (campus code 2, call 01642 333333).

What you study

The programme consists of 10 core modules delivered over a two year period. Level 4, studied in year one, is designed to install the foundation skills of gym instruction and the modules include:

Sport Science for the Personal Trainer
Gym orientated Exercise and Leadership
Implications of Activity Injuries for Personal Training
Research Methods
Business Skills for the Personal Trainer

Level 5 of the programme is studied in year two, on successful completion of level 4, and develops you as a personal trainer. The second year modules include:

Applied Sport Science for the Personal Trainer
Personal Training in Different Locations
Personal Training on Prescription
Factors Affecting Lifestyle
Project for the Personal Trainer

How you learn

This degree uses a wide range of learning and teaching methods including practical sessions in the field, laboratory work, lectures, seminars, group work and work-related learning.

How you are assessed

Assessments are varied, timely and where possible work-related, to give you the greatest opportunity to succeed on this vocationally and academically challenging programme.

They take the form of practical and written examinations, essays and laboratory reports, verbal presentations and portfolio building.

Career opportunities

You should be well prepared for careers in Personal Training when you graduate, and the course provides the opportunity to develop the required skills to obtain national governing body awards.

Successful graduates may also wish to further their education by progressing to the third year of a BSc (Hons) programme at Teesside University.

Career options are varied and include self-employment or jobs in the private and public sector health and fitness industry.

Entry requirements

UCAS application process: 120 points from level 3 qualifications are required, or other comparable qualifications.

As the Sport and Exercise (Personal Training) programme involves possible contact with children or other potentially vulnerable client groups, it is a condition of entry to the course that students obtain a Criminal Records Bureau disclosure.

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