YMCA personal training course review

The YMCA personal trainer award is one of the most reputable personal training qualifications and one that introduced me to the business.  The YMCA personal trainer award is a course that takes approximately 3 months and can be done in modules allowing you to fit it around work or any other fixed arrangements you have.  The course is taken in classes of around 10-20 people ranging from 18 to 60 year olds.  The average age is around 25.  The lessons are partly class room based and exercise based in the gym and outside.  The exams are the same half and half.  Most people do the course in the way the YMCA have set it where you do one week on one week off which allows you to study for one week and then revise the following week for the test.  The YMCA personal trainer is made up of the following separate modules

YMCA Gym instructor

YMCA Advance gym instructor

YMCA Personal training business and Personal training marketing

YMCA Client retention

YMCA Client lifestyle and fitness assesment

YMCA Excercise nutrition

YMCA Training in different environments

Overall a great course and a great introduction to the industry.  If you want to be a personal fitness trainer do this course don’t just do the Gym instructor course this won’t provide you with enough information.