Fitness and Sport courses

Aerobic fitness is all about the health and wellbeing of your lungs and heart. Without a good level of aerobic fitness, there is  a decline in the ability of the heart to deliver oxygen and nutrients and remove waste products from the body.

This course develops an understanding of aerobic fitness; and develops your capacity to help others maintain and improve their overall aerobic health.

ACS is a member of the Association for Coaching (UK) Organisational Member (OMAC)

This course can be useful for improving career opportunities or professional development in a wide range of vocations, including:

• Fitness Instructor, life coach, sports coach, wellness consultant
• Complimentary medicine practitioner
• Anyone working in administration, marketing, or as practitioner assistant in the health, medical, fitness or sporting industries.

This course is perfect for anyone interested in water fitness and safety as well as teaching some of the essential elements such as aquafitness equipment and facilities, hydrostatic and hydrodynamic principles, and program design and facilitating.

This course provides a foundation for understanding and working in varied areas of aqua fitness and exercise; and can be a valuable course to start or further career or business opportunities; or for professional development.

It is relevant to many jobs, including::

• Fitness instructor, sports coach, life coach
• Medical or health practitioner
• Swimming coach, swimming pool manager or leisure centre manager
• Health scientist
• Recreation officer, Physical Education Teacher, Allied Health assistant
• Rehabilitation officer, Occupational therapist, etc

Become a Life Coach

At some point in their lives, everybody seeks advice from friends, family or professionals to help them make decisions or decide how to handle a particular situation or event. The life coach makes available the kind of consistent assistance and support that may be lacking in a person’s life or difficult to obtain when consulting family or friends who may have quite different perspectives.

A life coach can become a confidante, helping the client determine what is important, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and ascertain where they want to be in six months, a year, ten years. Life coaching involves assisting the client set personal and professional goals and establishing a workable strategy to attain them within a given time frame. For clients, a life coach can provide a life-changing experience, an invaluable opportunity to take control over their lives and fulfil their dreams.

Life Coach or Personal Trainer?

The lines between these two jobs can sometimes be blurred. A personal trainer tends to focus on physical health and wellbeing. The Life Coach is concerned with this as well, but usually a lot more (mental, financial and other aspects too). The best personal trainers however should also be competent life coaches; and vice versa.

Life coaching can help people in many different aspects of their life, from physical and emotional wellbeing to career success and financial management. This course will prepare you to offer life-coaching services to others, or to support yourself through personal change.

This Certificate course is ideal for those with a basic understanding of health, fitness or psychology or with knowledge or experience in such practical areas as business, fitness, financial management, and who want to help others define and achieve practical goals.

ACS is now an organisational member (OMAC) of the Association for Coaching (UK)

Develop skills and knowledge relevant to child development. This course provides useful training for anyone wishing to work with children in a range of different situations. This course equips you with a greater understanding of how children think and develop; and a range of skills and ideas that can be applied to interacting with kids, to facilitate better development, particularly through play experiences. Graduates will have improved career and job prospects to work in areas from child care to play leadership; or even in businesses, organisations and companies that develop or supply products or services to children (eg. toy shops, toy libraries, leisure centres, playgrounds, playground equipment or toy manufacturers, etc).

Become more than an "Average" Fitness Leader.

This course develops your ability to prepare and deliver basic fitness programs, based on a solid understanding of the body's energy and movements. The core theory will develop a high standard of essential knowledge and competency while the specialty modules contextualise and expand on key skills in chosen areas. 

This is a very solid foundation for a career as a fitness instructor, life coach or personal trainer.

This course focuses on teaching the theory and practical skills needed to work successfully in the fitness field. It was developed by fitness leaders with experience in different countries, so it is globally relevant and can be adapted to any fitness context.  It is is aimed at students who wish to work as fitness leaders in gymnasiums, health clubs, etc. Students should check with potential employers prior to enrolling as to their qualification/registration requirements.

This course is a basic for anyone wanting to into fitness instruction. Some of the elements covered include types of resistance training, equipment and applications as well as developing training methods. Students normally need access to a gym for the practical component (special arrangements can nbe made if you have access to weights at home).

This course can be used for professional development or to enhance career and job opportunities in industries such as health, fitness and sport. People find employment in many different capacities in these industries (eg. as a practitioner, advisor, leader, marketer, manufacturer, supplier), and with an improved understanding of how to build, develop and sustain muscular health, you will make yourself more competent at work and more valuable to clients or employers.