| Course | SIS40215 Certificate IV in Fitness |
| CRICOS Code | 091881G |
| Location | 1291 Malvern Rd, Malvern VIC 3144 |
| Duration | 78 Weeks Tuition Hours |
| Delivery Mode | Face to Face |
| Assessment Modes | Combination of questions and answers, demonstrations and projects |
| Fees | Please contact CMI for course fees |
| Intake | Monthly |
This qualification reflects the role of personal trainers who have specialist skills to train individual clients, or groups of clients, on a one-on-one or group basis, to improve health-related components of fitness in relatively low risk situations. This may include training of older clients and children.
They have a substantial depth of knowledge to plan, conduct and evaluate exercise training; provide leadership and guidance to clients and other staff; and deal with unpredictable situations applying defined guidelines and procedures from the fitness industry and the organisation.
They work independently or with limited guidance from others and use discretion to solve non-routine problems, including monitoring and managing business activities to operate efficiently and profitably.
The qualification does not provide the skills and knowledge for an individual to provide advice or exercise instruction to high risk clients, other than to refer the client to an appropriate medical or allied health professional.
This qualification provides a pathway to work in a diversity of fitness industry businesses including fitness centres, gyms, aquatic facilities, community facilities and in open spaces, where risk management (through risk assessment and hazard control processes) does not already exist.
Job roles
- exercise trainer - personal trainer
- exercise trainer - program coordinator
- exercise trainer - children's trainer
- exercise trainer - older client trainer
Entry to this qualification is open to individuals who hold a current first aid and CPR certificate and have been recognised as competent through a recognised training program or recognition process against the following:
- SISFFIT001 Provide health screening and fitness orientation
- SISFFIT002 Recognise and apply exercise considerations for specific populations
- SISFFIT003 Instruct fitness programs
- SISFFIT004 Incorporate anatomy and physiology principles into fitness programming
- SISFFIT005 Provide healthy eating information
- SISFFIT006 Conduct fitness appraisals
- SISFFIT014 Instruct exercise to older clients
- SISXCCS001 Provide quality service
All students at Central Melbourne Institute are expected to undertake a pre-training review. A pre-training review is designed to identify any language, literacy and/or numeracy issues and provide additional support where required to ensure each student is enrolled in the appropriate course.
20 units must be completed:
- 12 core units
- 8 elective units
| Core Units | Hours | ||
| SISFFIT013 | Instruct exercise to young people aged 13 to 17 years | 100 | |
| SISFFIT015 | Collaborate with medical and allied health professionals in a fitness context | 80 | |
| SISFFIT016 | Provide motivation to positively influence exercise behaviour | 52 | |
| SISFFIT017 | Instruct long-term exercise programs | 60 | |
| SISFFIT018 | Promote functional movement capacity | 52 | |
| SISFFIT019 | Incorporate exercise science principles into fitness programming | 60 | |
| SISFFIT020 | Instruct exercise programs for body composition goals | 52 | |
| SISFFIT021 | Instruct personal training programs | 80 | |
| SISFFIT023 | Instruct group personal training programs | 84 | |
| SISFFIT025 | Recognise the dangers of providing nutrition advice to clients | 24 | |
| SISFFIT026 | Support healthy eating through the Eat for Health Program | 80 | |
| SISXRES001 | Conduct sustainable work practices in open spaces | 80 | |
| Elective Units | Hours | ||
| BSBSMB403 | Market the small business | 52 | |
| BSBSMB404 | Undertake small business planning | 52 | |
| BSBSMB405 | Monitor and manage small business operations | 52 | |
| BSBSMB406 | Manage small business finances | 60 | |
| HLTWHS003 | Maintain work health and safety | 40 | |
| BSBSUS201 | Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices | 20 | |
| BSBSMB306 | Plan a home based business | 60 | |
| SISFFIT012 | Instruct movement programs to children aged 5 to 12 years | 60 | |
| Total Hours | 1200 | ||
Recognition of prior learning (RPL), is a process for giving candidates credit for skills, knowledge and experience gained through working and learning. It can be gained at any stage of their lives, through formal and informal learning, in Australia or overseas, through work or other activities such as volunteering.
Credit transfer is a process that provides students with agreed and consistent credit outcomes for components of a qualification based on identified equivalence in content and learning outcomes between matched qualifications.
Central Melbourne Institute accepts and provides Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Credit Transfer.