Get qualified in a field you’re passionate about!
Join the fitness industry as a Personal Trainer and turn your love for fitness into a rewarding career by graduating in both the SIS30321 – Certificate III in Fitness & SIS40221 – Certificate IV in Fitness.
At a Certificate III in Fitness level, you can begin working as a paid gym instructor. 2019 industry data shows the average hourly/class pay rate between $30-$50.
^^ We use PayScale to calculate the above facts + our own business plans.
What qualifications do I need for a career in fitness?
The Certificate IV in Fitness is the minimum requirement needed to work as a Personal Trainer in Australia. This qualification will teach you how to plan and deliver personal training, apply motivational psychology to clients and the foundation of undertaking small business planning.
- Complete SIS30321 and SIS40221 Certificate III & IV in Fitness – Personal Training Qualification.
- Complete the mandatory First Aid & CPR training
- Once you’re qualified, consider a professional membership with either AUS Active or Physical Activity Australia. While this is not essential, it will provide you with insurance cover for professional indemnity, public liability and product liability.
- Get a job in a gym, or start your own business as a personal trainer.
What kinds of career options are available in the fitness industry?
Personal Training
Online Personal Training
Group Training
Outdoor boot camps
Training Children
Working with Older Adults
Working with special populations
Become a club manager
Open your own studio
Purchase a franchise
Group Instructor
$18,000 (BASE SALARY) – UNCAPPED POTENTIAL
Supervising and leading participants through a series of movements and fitness activities, Fitness Instructors are the key motivator in exercise class delivery, typically in a gym or studio. You can teach classes while working your current job, studying and juggling your other life commitments. How good!
Even doing 3 classes a week at $30 per class puts an extra $90 in your pocket.
Personal Trainer
$18,000 (BASE SALARY) – UNCAPPED POTENTIAL
The beauty of becoming a personal trainer is you will usually be self-employed, meaning you determine your level of income. It is up to you whether you work part-time or full time, but it is important to build a client base to ensure a long career as a personal trainer. As a general rule of thumb, we teach our students to value their time on a $ per minute basis building their cost as their client base rises.
Example
30 minute session is $49 and you have 7 clients per week = $343 (for 2.5 hours work)
Testimonials
See what our students say about us...
"They weren’t trying to sell it to me. They were understanding my lifestyle, where I was at…I can do it in my spare time. I can do it whenever I want. The practical- love it. They respond so quickly, calling, emailing- I would recommend it just because it’s a good education for yourself, it’s not just for teaching other people."
"I phoned a few different training providers and once I’d spoken with the team at AOF, I just felt a really great connection with them, really lovely people. They had fitness studies themselves, so they could really offer us some great industry insights into how we could really provide a great service… They could provide training that went above and beyond just the basic stuff."
"With ease, I found the Academy of Fitness. I love the flexibility- I have a one-year-old daughter and having the option to choose where I want to study and when I actually have the time to study definitely helps. I also love that the course challenges me online as well as the practical assessments, so it’s not all just theory, it’s practical and you have to get involved with the community."
"So, without education in any kind of career, you cant really expand. So I found that obviously that groundwork of a cert 3 and 4 does give you that foundation of knowledge to then leapfrog further into whatever you want to do in the fitness industry."
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SIS30321 – Certificate III in Fitness and SIS40221 – Certificate IV in Fitness. For more information on fees, course outlines, career outcomes and course duration.
