Active IQ · RQF Level 3
Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training for Health, Fitness and Performance
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits86
- Guided learning755 hours
- Units in this qualification12
Awarded by Active IQ · on the Ofqual register
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Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Active IQ registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Applied human biology for exercise and fitnessReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Know cardiovascular system structure and function in relation to health and fitness
- Know skeletal system structure and function in relation to health and fitness
- Know the myofascial system structure and function in relation to health and fitness
- Know nervous system structure and function in relation to health and fitness
- Know endocrine system structure and function in relation to health and fitness
- Know the energy systems and their roles in physical activity, exercise and training
- Know digestive system structure and function in relation to health and fitness
Conducting consultations with personal training clientsReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why effective communication with a client is important in a consultation
- Understand how to use communication techniques to build rapport with a client in a consultation
- Understand how to facilitate lifestyle behaviour change with a client in a consultation
- Establish rapport and engage clients in conversation about their health and fitness in a consultation
- Provide relevant information to clients in a consultation
- Collect information about clients in consultations
- Use behaviour change techniques to encourage lifestyle change
- Be able
Delivering exceptional customer careReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of customer care
- Understand the skills and behaviours needed to deliver exceptional customer care
- Understand the legislation relating to the customer environment
- Understand how to communicate clearly and effectively with customers
- Understand the value of first impressions
- Show the right attitude for customer care
- Understand how to improve a customer’s experience
- Understand customer loyalty and retention
- Understand how to promote products and services
- Understand how to interact with customers in difficult situations
- Understand how to deal with cust
Enterprise and entrepreneurshipReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the attitude, skills and demands required to be a successful entrepreneur
- Evaluate personal skills and attitudes required to be a successful entrepreneur
- Plan an enterprise activity
- Manage an enterprise activity
Health and safety in a physical activity, fitness and sport environmentReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety in the workplace
- Understand how to control hazards and risks in a physical activity, fitness and sport environment
- Understand normal and emergency operating procedures in the workplace
- Understand health and safety in a physical activity, fitness and sport environment
- Understand incident and emergency procedures in a physical activity, fitness and sport environment
- Understand security in a physical activity, fitness and sport environment
- Understand safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in a physical activity, fitness and sport environment
- Con
Managing personal and professional developmentReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of personal development
- Understand the principles of continuing professional development (CPD)
- Understand the planning and reviewing cycle within personal and professional development
- Understand time management techniques
- Manage own personal and professional development
Marketing products and servicesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand marketing techniques and tactics, including their application in different marketing scenarios.
- Understand how to conduct market research to develop current or future brands, services or products, using appropriate methodologies and tools.
- Produce marketing materials for promotional campaigns, ensuring they are aligned with the target audience and marketing objectives.
- Develop a marketing plan / strategy for a brand, service or product, incorporating market analysis, objectives, and tactics.
Planning and instructing gym-based exerciseReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Consult and support clients to change exercise behaviour
- Consult/interview and support clients changing exercise behaviour
- Understand how to maintain a safe and effective gym-based exercise environment
- Deliver a safe and effective gym-based induction
- Plan a safe and effective gym-based exercise session
- Plan a safe and effective gym-based exercise session
- Deliver a safe and effective gym-based exercise programme
- Evaluate own practice
Principles of anatomy, physiology and fitnessReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the skeletal system and the effects of exercise
- Understand the neuromuscular system and the effects of exercise
- Understand the cardiovascular and respiratory systems and the effects of exercise
- Understand how energy is produced in the body and the effects of exercise on energy production
- Understand health and wellbeing
- Understand the components of fitness and the effects of exercise
Principles of nutrition for healthy lifestylesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Know common nutritional terms and evidence-based nutritional guidelines
- Know the nutrients required to maintain health in humans
- Estimate daily energy and nutrient requirements for clients with different goals
- Know the risks of poor nutritional and lifestyle practices
- Operate within professional boundaries and systems
- Know how nutrients from food are used to fuel, and recover from, physical activity
Programme design and delivery for personal trainingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and interpret health screening and fitness assessment data
- Understand the principles of safe and effective personal training programme design
- Collect and interpret health screening and fitness assessments
- Design safe and effective personal training programmes and session plans
- Provide a session introduction that prepares the client for exercise
- Instruct safe, effective exercise technique
- Monitor a client during exercise sessions
- Monitor client progress and adapt the programme accordingly
- Re
Technology in sport and exerciseReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the evolutionary development of technology in sport and exercise
- Understand the benefits of technology applications in sport and exercise
- Understand the ethical considerations of technology applications in sport and exercise
- Evaluate the application and effects of technology in a range of sport and exercise scenarios
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Design and Manage an Exercise and Physical Activity Programme for Clients with Medical Conditions
- Design and manage personal training programmes with clients
- Evaluate Your Personal and Professional Development Needs
- Promote and contribute to healthy, safe and secure working environments and practices
- Work in a healthy and safe way whilst seeking to achieve excellence in your sport
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training for Health, Fitness and Performance
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Active IQ.
- Applied human biology for exercise and fitness
- Conducting consultations with personal training clients
- Delivering exceptional customer care
- Enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Health and safety in a physical activity, fitness and sport environment
- Managing personal and professional development
and 6 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.