Training/Advice
Event
Level 3 Diploma in Exercise Referral
Next date: Monday 20 January - Saturday 29 March 2025 5:30pm
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The qualification aims to equip the learner with the skills, knowledge and understanding required to plan and instruct programmes for exercise referral.
Learners will cover:
Skills relating to the qualification:
- Collect and analyse nutritional information and apply the principles of nutrition to a physical activity programme.
- Collect information about exercise referral patients and prepare patients and resources for exercise referral sessions.
- Instruct, adapt, conclude and review exercise referral sessions. Agree goals, plan, manage, review progress and adapt an exercise referral programme with exercise referral patients.
ENTRYREQUIREMENTS:
Learners should be 16 plus and must hold one or more of the following:
- Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instructing or equivalent
- Level 3 Certificate in Personal Training
- Level 3 Diploma in Teaching Pilates
- Level 3 Diploma in Teaching Yoga
QUALIFICATIONS STRUCTURE:
The learner must complete:
• Unit 1: Professional practice for exercise referral instructors
• Unit 2: Understanding medical conditions for exercise referral
• Unit 3: Planning exercise referral programmes with patients
• Unit 4: Instructing exercise with referred patients
• Unit 5: Applied Anatomy and Physiology
• Unit 6: Nutrition to support physical activity
Sector:
- Community development
- Education/training
- Health and wellbeing
- Older people
Date and Time
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Location
Level 4, Queen's University Belfast, Physical Education Centre
Botanic Park
Belfast
BT9 5EX
United Kingdom