Qualification Description

This qualification reflects the role of personal trainers who have specialist skills to train individual clients, or groups of clients, on a one-on-one or group basis, to improve health-related components of fitness in relatively low risk situations. This may include training of older clients and children.

They have a substantial depth of knowledge to plan, conduct and evaluate exercise training; provide leadership and guidance to clients and other staff; and deal with unpredictable situations applying defined guidelines and procedures from the fitness industry and the organisation.

They work independently or with limited guidance from others and use discretion to solve non-routine problems, including monitoring and managing business activities to operate efficiently and profitably.

The qualification does not provide the skills and knowledge for an individual to provide advice or exercise instruction to high risk clients, other than to refer the client to an appropriate medical or allied health professional.

This qualification provides a pathway to work in a diversity of fitness industry businesses including fitness centres, gyms, aquatic facilities, community facilities and in open spaces, where risk management (through risk assessment and hazard control processes) does not already exist.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

 

Entry Requirements

Entry to this qualification is open to individuals who hold a current first aid and CPR certificate and have been recognised as competent through a recognised training program or recognition process against the following units of competency:

SISFFIT001	Provide health screening and fitness orientation
SISFFIT002	Recognise and apply exercise considerations for specific populations
SISFFIT003	Instruct fitness programs
SISFFIT004	Incorporate anatomy and physiology principles into fitness programming
SISFFIT005	Provide healthy eating information
SISFFIT006	Conduct fitness appraisals
SISFFIT014	Instruct exercise to older clients
SISXCCS001	Provide quality service

 

Mapping	Notes	Date
Supersedes SIS40210 - Certificate IV in Fitness	Not Equivalent. Revised qualification structure. Number of units required for completion increased from 15 to 20 units.	02/Sep/2015

Package Rules

Packaging Rules

20 units must be completed:

• 12 core units
• 8 elective units, consisting of:

• 4 units in Group A
• remaining units to make up the required 8 elective units from Group A or Group B; maximum of 2 units may be selected elsewhere in SIS Training Package, or any other current Training Package or accredited course.

The selection of electives must be guided by the job outcome sought, local industry requirements and the complexity of skills appropriate to the AQF level of this qualification.