Gym Instructing Level 2 - Women's Football Academy (24/25)

Course Overview

Are you passionate about health and fitness and feel you could inspire others? The role of a Gym Instructor is to coach clients (on a small group basis) towards their health and fitness goals. Through the design and provision of personalised exercise programmes, nutritional advice and overall lifestyle management, Gym Instructors motivate clients to positively change their behaviour and improve their overall wellbeing by providing specialist, tailored advice within their scope of practice.


Gym Instructors can pursue careers in the leisure industry, delivering fitness classes in circuit training, studio cycling and a variety of different classes and can progress onto the Level 3 Personal Training programme. This occupation exists within a sector that plays an important role in improving the health of the nation, creating opportunities that get more people, more active, more often.


What topics are covered?

Topics include: Anatomy and physiology, planning and instructing gym- based exercise, health and safety in the fitness environment, conducting client consultations to support positive behaviour change, professional and customer care for fitness instructors.

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Course Details

Course Type: Full Time Study Programme
Campus: Main Reception, Roper Building, Bath Campus
Level: Level 2
Duration: 1 Year

Frequently asked questions

Are you passionate about health and fitness and feel you could inspire others? The role of a Gym Instructor is to coach clients (on a small group basis) towards their health and fitness goals. Through the design and provision of personalised exercise programmes, nutritional advice and overall lifestyle management, Gym Instructors motivate clients to positively change their behaviour and improve their overall wellbeing by providing specialist, tailored advice within their scope of practice.


Gym Instructors can pursue careers in the leisure industry, delivering fitness classes in circuit training, studio cycling and a variety of different classes and can progress onto the Level 3 Personal Training programme. This occupation exists within a sector that plays an important role in improving the health of the nation, creating opportunities that get more people, more active, more often.

This course provides learners with the broad base of knowledge and skills to enter employment in a variety of customer-facing roles within the active leisure industry, including fitness instructing, a progression to personal training. This is a vocational qualification that provides learners with industry recognized qualifications as a gym instructor. You will study both theoretical and practical aspects and apply these in different scenarios and with specialist populations.
After successful completion of the course, you can progress onto the L3 Diploma in Personal Training and thereafter our Higher National Diploma in Sport. Additionally, with the L2 Gym Instructing Certificate you can move into employment as a fitness instructor, supervising gyms, along with running a variety of fitness classes.