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 Active IQ has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Active IQ awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Active IQ.
This qualification has been approved by IfATE, Ofqual and DfE to be recognised as a Technical Occupational Entry Qualification . This qualification aligns to KSBs in the existing occupational standard(s) for leisure team member and enables entry to the aligned occupation(s) (including providing occupational entry competence with the requirement for further learning/training in work to reach full occupational competence). The purpose of this technical occupational entry qualification is to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to pursue a career in fitness coaching. Learners are provided with an understanding of anatomy, physiology and nutrition and how they relate to exercise and fitness. Learners are also provided with the knowledge and skills to be able to plan, deliver and supervise safe and effective exercise programmes within a gym or health club environment. This qualification has been designed in partnership with employers and covers the knowledge and skills identified in the industry as essential for the fitness coach role, covering the planning and instructing of safe and effective exercise sessions as well conducting small group sessions and supporting clients’ exercise adherence and a healthy lifestyle. The qualification also provides the learner with an understanding of professionalism, personal development and how to deliver exceptional customer service. This qualification includes the essential knowledge and skills that are needed to meet the requirements of the physical activity sector’s minimum standards for deployment.
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. 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 Active IQ. It does the teaching and the mapping. Active IQ 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 · 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 the immune system
- Understand body composition
Conducting client consultations Real unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Consult with clients to support changes in exercise behaviour
- Support clients to gain motivation for exercise
- Develop client-based goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART)
- Understand how technology can be used to support exercise adherence
- Know the established protocols for health screening of gym-based clients
- Know the established protocols for fitness assessment of gym-based clients
- Carry out health-screening procedures with clients
- Carry out fitness assessments with clients
- Demonstrate effective communication skills with clients
- Demonstrate effective customer care skills with clients
- Effectively gather information from clients regarding their health and fitness goals
- Create and action plan with clients based on gathered information.
Health and safety in a fitness environment Real unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hazards present in a fitness environment
- Understand the risks associated with hazards in a fitness environment
- Understand normal operating procedures in a fitness workplace
- Understand emergency operating procedures in a fitness workplace
- Understand how to maintain a safe fitness environment
- Understand how to maintain an effective fitness environment
- Understand the cleaning requirements for different areas and equipment in fitness environments
- Understand safe working practices relating to the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations.
Leisure team operations Real unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Know how leisure and fitness facilities operate and their business requirements
- Work and communicate with colleagues in a leisure and fitness facility
- Know how information technology (IT) is used in the leisure and fitness industry
- Set up, take down and store equipment in the leisure and fitness industry
Planning and delivering fitness sessions Real unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Provide safe and effective exercise
- Plan a safe and effective progressive gym-based exercise session
- Safely and effectively instruct a range of exercise modes
- Deliver safe and effective exercise with groups in the gym environment
- Plan a gym session
- Prepare for and start a gym programme
- Deliver a gym programme
- Gain feedback and end a gym programme
- Evaluate own practice
Principles of fitness training Real unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components of fitness and the principles of training
- Understand the reasons for and structure of a warm-up
- Understand cardiovascular training
- Monitor exercise intensity
- Understand muscular strength and endurance training
- Understand the reasons for and structure of a cool-down
- Understand flexibility training
- Understand progression of training
Principles of nutrition and lifestyle Real unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the links between physical activity and health benefits
- Understand the importance of adopting and maintaining a healthy lifestyle
- Understand basic nutrition principles for a healthy diet
- Understand the importance of adequate hydration for health and performance
- Understand the importance of healthy eating habits for overall well-being
- Understand basic stress management techniques to promote mental and physical health.
Professionalism and customer care Real unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal and professional requirements for fitness instructing
- Understand how an instructor can help customers to have a positive exercise experience
- Understand the skills and behaviours needed to deliver effective customer care
- Understand the value of first impressions
- Understand how to communicate clearly and effectively with customers
- Understand how to be polite and approachable with customers
- Understand how to interact with customers in different situations
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
Facilitate and deliver individualised programmes to inform performance using coaching pedagogy
The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Active IQ 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 exerciseConducting client consultationsHealth and safety in a fitness environmentLeisure team operationsPlanning and delivering fitness sessionsPrinciples of fitness trainingPrinciples of nutrition and lifestyleProfessionalism and customer care
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.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Planning and delivering fitness sessions” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“Leisure team operations” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
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 skeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems. The unit also addresses energy production, immune response, and body composition in relation to physical activity.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Active IQ Level 2 Technical Occupational Entry in Fitness Coaching (Certificate)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Active IQ.
- Anatomy and physiology for exercise
- Conducting client consultations
- Health and safety in a fitness environment
- Leisure team operations
- Planning and delivering fitness sessions
- Principles of fitness training
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
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