How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer 1st4sport has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and 1st4sport awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from 1st4sport.
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These are the units 1st4sport 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with 1st4sport. It does the teaching and the mapping. 1st4sport sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Anatomy and physiology for exercise Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of the circulatory system
- Understand the function of the circulatory system
- Understand the structure of the respiratory system
- Understand the function of the respiratory system
- Understand the structure of the skeleton
- Understand the function of the skeleton
- Understand the different types of joints in the skeleton
- Understand the structure of the muscular system
- Understand the function of the muscular system
- Understand the life-course of the musculoskeletal system
- Understand the implications of the life-course of the musculoskeletal system for special populations exercise
- Understand energy systems and their relation to exercise
- Understand the nervous system and its relation to exercise
Anatomy and physiology for exercise and health Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of the heart and circulatory system
- Understand the function of the heart and circulatory system in relation to exercise and health
- Understand the structure of the musculoskeletal system
- Understand the function of the musculoskeletal system in relation to exercise
- Understand postural stability
- Understand core stability
- Understand the nervous system and its relation to exercise
- Understand the endocrine system and its relation to exercise and health
- Understand energy systems and their relation to exercise
Apply nutrition to sport and physical activity Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the links between nutrition, health, physical activity and performance in sport
- Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental nutrition including healthy diet
- Understand dietary requirements of the general population
- Develop an understanding of the influence of nutrition on sport and physical activity performance levels
Delivering personal training sessions Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to instruct exercise techniques effectively during personal training sessions
- Understand how to adapt exercises to meet individual client needs during personal training sessions
- Understand how to review personal training sessions with clients to monitor progress and adjust plans
- Plan and prepare comprehensive personal training sessions
- Prepare clients physically and mentally for personal training sessions
- Instruct and adapt planned exercises based on client feedback and performance
- Bring exercise sessions to a safe and effective conclusion
- Reflect on the delivery of personal training sessions to identify areas for improvement
Health, safety and welfare in a fitness environment Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand emergency procedures and protocols in a fitness environment
- Understand health and safety requirements and regulations relevant to a fitness environment
- Understand how to identify and control risks effectively in a fitness environment
- Understand how to safeguard children and vulnerable adults within a fitness environment
Instructing gym-based exercise Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to provide safe and effective gym-based exercise instruction
- Prepare oneself and equipment thoroughly for delivering gym-based exercise sessions
- Prepare clients effectively for participation in gym-based exercise
- Instruct clients in correct techniques for a range of gym-based exercises
- Supervise clients undertaking gym-based exercise, ensuring their safety and providing appropriate support
- Bring a gym-based exercise session to a safe and effective conclusion
- Reflect on one's own performance in providing gym-based exercise and identify areas for improvement
- Support clients effectively throughout their participation in gym-based exercise
Know how to support clients who take part in exercise and physical activity Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to form effective working relationships with clients
- Understand how to address barriers to exercise/physical activity that clients experience
- Understand how to support clients to adhere to exercise/physical activity
- Understand how to provide ongoing customer service to clients
Planning gym-based exercise Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to collect relevant client information for planning gym-based exercise programmes
- Understand how to use client information to plan effective gym-based exercise programmes
- Understand how to plan gym-based exercise programmes in collaboration with clients
- Collect and use client information to plan a gym-based exercise programme
- Plan a safe and effective gym-based exercise programme with clients
Principles of exercise, fitness and health Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the effects of exercise on the body
- Understand the components of fitness
- Understand how to apply the principles of fitness to an exercise programme
- Understand how to apply the variables of fitness to an exercise programme
- Understand exercise contraindications for special populations
- Understand key safety guidelines for special populations
- Understand how to safely monitor exercise intensity
- Understand the health benefits of physical activity
- Understand the importance of healthy eating
Programming personal training with clients Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare personal training programmes effectively
- Understand the importance of long-term behaviour change for successful personal training outcomes
- Understand the principles of collecting relevant information to plan a personalised personal training programme
- Understand how to screen clients thoroughly prior to commencing a personal training programme
- Understand how to identify realistic and achievable personal training goals collaboratively with clients
- Understand how to plan a comprehensive personal training programme in collaboration with clients
- Understand how to adapt a personal training programme effectively based on client progress and feedback
- Collect accurate and relevant information about clients' health, fitness levels, and goals
- Agree on specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals with clients
- Plan a safe and effective personal training programme tailored to individual client needs and goals
- Manage a personal training programme effectively, ensuring client safety and progress
- Review client progress regularly and provide constructive feedback
- Adapt a personal training programme based on client progress, feedback, and changing needs
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Deliver exercise and physical activity as part of personal training programmes
- Standard
Design and manage personal training programmes with clients
- Standard
Develop an individualised programme to inform performance using coaching pedagogy
- Standard
Liaise with clients to identify and agree their needs and objectives for personal training
- Standard
Prepare and Analyse Participants Information and Data to Inform Performance
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by 1st4sport rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Anatomy and physiology for exerciseAnatomy and physiology for exercise and healthApply nutrition to sport and physical activityDelivering personal training sessionsHealth, safety and welfare in a fitness environmentInstructing gym-based exerciseKnow how to support clients who take part in exercise and physical activityPlanning gym-based exercise
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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For “Planning gym-based exercise” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Deliver exercise and physical activity as part of personal training programmes
- Design and manage personal training programmes with clients
- Develop an individualised programme to inform performance using coaching pedagogy
- Liaise with clients to identify and agree their needs and objectives for personal training
- Prepare and Analyse Participants Information and Data to Inform Performance
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Anatomy and physiology for exercise, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Learners will study the anatomy and physiology relevant to exercise, including the structure and function of the circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, and muscular systems. The unit also covers the life-course development of these systems.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for 1st4sport Level 3 Diploma in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by 1st4sport.
- Anatomy and physiology for exercise
- Anatomy and physiology for exercise and health
- Apply nutrition to sport and physical activity
- Delivering personal training sessions
- Health, safety and welfare in a fitness environment
- Instructing gym-based exercise
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
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