Becoming a Gym Instructor

Last weekend saw me go off to Esporta in West London and complete my 3 day gym instructor workshop. The weekend was a mixture of class room learning and practical training in the £200 a month membership gym.

The course went over the usual gym instructor basics, how to warm up, cool down, stretch and how to teach people to use the CV, fixed resistance machines and free weights.

Fortunately, I have used and am comfortable with all the machines that we were shown, so I had no trouble with picking up all the information. Some people on the course who wasn’t from a “gym” back ground found some of the machines foreign, but due to the excellent teaching by the Future Fit instructor, had no trouble learning how to use and teach the safe the safe use of all the equipment.

The class room learning was enjoyable and pretty straight forward, basically going over a lot of the stuff we should have learned on our Anatomy and Physiology course. Therefore, having passed my A&P exams last week I was familiar with all the information, however, out of the 11 people attending the workshop, only about half had actually completed there exams. This meant that had to work harder at the weekend to understand all the information. My advice; do the A&P course, in full first. Will make the gym instructor course a lot easier to follow.

It was good to see that the people training to become a Personal Trainer all varied in age and background and were all pretty cool people. We have all exchanged emails and are in contact on Facebook, so we can track each others progress. Its was good to meet people with the same Aims and objectives as me and the same interests.

In order to pass the course I have to go back in 4 weeks, with a completed Portfolio (basically a subscription of all the machines and what they do) and a friend/colleague (in my case, my Girlfriend) and show her how to use the machines and I need to deliver an hours long gym session for a healthy beginner. Im pretty confident I will pass and sure my Girlfriend will do her best to make it easier for me…. I hope.

In the meantime, I need to crack on with my Portfolio, obviously detailing every step here,  on my Blog.