Certificate IV in Fitness - SIS40221
Charles Darwin University
Type of institution: University/Higher Education Institution
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
CRICOS: 00300K
This qualification reflects the role of personal trainers who develop, instruct and evaluate personalised exercise programs for generally healthy and low risk clients, to achieve specific fitness goals. Clients with higher health risks are referred to medical or allied health professionals. Personal trainers work independently using highly developed fitness skills and knowledge in both routine and unpredictable situations. They use well-developed communication and collaboration skills to interact with clients and health professionals to improve client fitness outcomes.This qualification provides a pathway to work as an employed or self-employed personal trainer in settings such as fitness facilities, gyms, leisure and community centres, client workplaces and homes, and outdoor locations. Personal trainers may offer services to individuals and groups, and may provide online training services. In some employment contexts, personal trainers may be involved in team leadership or supervisory activities.The skills in this qualification must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State or Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Develop and instruct personalised exercise programs for body composition goals
- Facilitate the empowerment of older people
- Develop strength and conditioning programs
- Sell to the retail customer
- Mentor in the workplace
- Engage respectfully with young people
- Support healthy eating for individual fitness clients
- Work with diverse people
- Develop a basic website for customer engagement
- Conduct individualised long-term training programs
- Use exercise science principles in fitness instruction
- Assess client movement and provide exercise advice
- Lead team effectiveness
- Support exercise behaviour change
- Investigate business opportunities
- Manage the prevention and control of infection
- Facilitate the empowerment of people with disability
- Develop and present business proposals
- Develop personalised exercise programs
- Coordinate work teams or groups
- Research and develop business plans
- Work with people with mental health issues
- Maintain ethical and professional standards when using social media and online platforms
- Apply critical thinking to work practices
- Conduct manual tasks safely
- Perform basic water rescues
- Plan finances for new business ventures
- Develop and instruct personalised exercise programs for older clients
- Instruct group water-based exercise sessions
- Develop and instruct personalised exercise programs for adolescent clients
- Plan and instruct online exercise sessions
- Contribute to leisure and health programming
- Plan group water-based exercise sessions
- Establish and maintain professional practice for fitness instruction
- Instruct strength and conditioning techniques
- Maintain work health and safety
- Manage finances for new business ventures
- Use anatomy and physiology knowledge to support safe and effective water-based exercise
- Instruct personalised exercise sessions
- Develop and instruct group movement programs for children
- Establish legal and risk management requirements of new business ventures
- Manage compliance for small businesses
- Establish and manage client relationships
- Facilitate inclusion for people with a disability
- Analyse participation patterns
- Use social media and online tools
- Organise finances for new business ventures
- Select and use technology for sport, fitness and recreation work
- Market new business ventures
- Plan and conduct disability programs
- Make presentations
- Incorporate lifespan development and sociological concepts into leisure and health programming
- Conduct sport, fitness or recreation events
Standard entry requirements
Entry to this qualification is open to individuals who hold the following units of competency or units that have been superseded by these units:HLTAID011Provide First Aid (or a unit that supersedes this unit)HLTWHS001Participate in workplace health and safetySISFFIT032Complete pre-exercise screening and service orientationSISFFIT033Complete client fitness assessmentsSISFFIT035Plan group exercise sessionsSISFFIT036Instruct group exercise sessionsSISFFIT040Develop and instruct gym-based exercise programs for individual clientsSISFFIT047Use anatomy and physiology knowledge to support safe and effective exerciseSISFFIT052Provide healthy eating information
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Entry | Mid year intake | Attendance |
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| Alice Springs | Domestic: $12,063 | No |
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| Casuarina | Domestic: $12,063 | No |
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| CDU Online | No |
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| Katherine Town Centre | Domestic: $12,063 | No |
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