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Building Your Fitness Business

Learn Invaluable Business Skills for Personal Trainers with a CPD Accreditation. This is an online e-learning course that is accredited by CIMSPA.

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Train with Future Fit, together with all the support and industry expertise you need to help your fitness career take flight. Invest into your own knowledge and learn how to Build your Fitness Business.

Course Overview

In order to become a successful fitness professional you not only need knowledge and skills relating to exercise, nutrition and behaviour change, but also business and marketing. No matter how knowledgeable and competent you are, you are unlikely to be successful if potential clients are unaware of your business or the services you offer.

Whether you are a Personal Trainer, Group Exercise Instructor or Pilates Instructor, this course will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to build a business and market yourself to be successful.

It applies the established principles of not only sales and marketing but also other vital elements of building a business – such as tax, social media, branding and business planning – to help you confidently and efficiently build a profitable fitness business. The format is a step-by-step process with templates, tasks and activities to guide you through each element of setting up and running a business.

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Learn more about this course

This highly engaging course will enable you to leap from being a qualified personal trainer to a successful fitness professional with a profitable business as a real entrepreneur. Learn how to use promotional tools to your advantage and gain and retain clients using effective sales techniques, as well as advice on key business administration regarding tax and data protection requirements.

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What's Included in the Building your Fitness Business Course

E-learning

An interactive e-learning course. We recommend you work through the course more than once. There is a demonstration of the course available (look for the “Course Demo” tab).

Content

Gain an understanding of all elements required to establish a fitness business. from legal requirements to planning, marketing, sales and customer management.

Assessment

There is no assessment for this course.

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Course Detail

First Steps

This first section is all about defining the types of people you want to work with – your ideal client. Doing this provides the context for all the other decisions you make as part of your business.

Business Set Up

This section covers the administrative side of your business, including the legal structure, financial management and GDPR.

Business Planning

In this section, we look at how to do a SWOT and PEST analysis, as well as market research to provide the information you need to plan your business and for product development.

Product Development

One of the most critical stages in the process is product development. Personal training is not a tangible ‘thing’ like cars, shoes or food, so in this section, you’ll learn how to put together packages and services that clients understand and are attracted to.

Marketing

In this section, you’ll learn about the marketing funnel, as well as offline and online marketing approaches, with specific techniques you can use immediately

Sales

Sales skills are crucial to success as a personal trainer. This section covers the ‘principles of persuasion’ as well as strategies to handle common objections from potential clients.

Running Your Business

As your client base expands you need to develop systems and processes to enable things to run smoothly and for your business to grow in a sustainable way. This final section provides the resources to help you do that. “

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To do this course, you will need:

There are no entry requirements for this course.
With no entry requirements or pre-requisites, this course is designed for anyone who wants to know about running a successful fitness business.

We also recommend reading our personal training blog posts prior to starting the course. There is loads of useful material to help cement your understanding of personal training! Read them here:

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Options available to pay for your course:

Training for a new career is a big investment and with all things, in life, you tend to get what you pay for.

At Future Fit Training, we make it easy and affordable for you to achieve your dream career without comprising the quality of your learning experience or more importantly, your future career! We offer a variety of payment options including;

Pay your course in full – all of our CPD courses can be purchased through our website in full
Flexible payment schemes – pay a deposit and then the balance, pay as you learn, pay by company invoice or finance through OMNI (only available on selected courses)

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Frequently asked questions

Please see our most frequently asked questions.

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How will this course help me start a fitness business?
This course addresses one of the key skills for fitness and wellbeing professionals, particularly those who are looking to establish their own business. The course looks at various different business elements to equip you with the skills and knowledge to get started on your own.
- Planning your fitness business
- Marketing & building a brand
- Selling your service
- Managing your business and clients
How do I know you’re the best training provider for my course?
- We have over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry
- We were winners of the ukactive's Training Provider of the Year in 2016 & 2017
- We are ISO 9001:2015 registered by the British Standards Institute
- We offer you affordable and flexible payment options
- Our flexible training format allows you to train at your own pace and in your own time
- You will receive unlimited support throughout your training
- Our team of experienced and highly qualified tutors make your training rewarding and fun
What is CIMSPA?
CIMSPA (the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity) is the professional organisation that provides development, leadership, support and empowerment for professionals working in sport and physical activity. Their goal is to create a standardised industry that everyone, from apprentices to CEOs, are confident in and proud to be part of. Some quick key facts are:
- Backed by Sport England and DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) to lead developments in the sports and physical activity sector's workforce.
- Set a rigorous system for standardising all sport and exercise professionals, assessments and awarding and validating qualifications.
- Has membership options for everyone working in, or interested in working in, the sport and physical activity world.
- CIMSPA already provides a route to chartered status for those working in leisure operations, and is developing similar routes for the whole of the sector.
For more information go to www.cimspa.co.uk.
Is there a deadline to complete my training?
Once you have enrolled on one of our courses, you will find that each individual training module within your programme has a recommended time frame for completion. These time frames have been developed to encourage you to succeed and ensure you become qualified. The overall deadline to complete your course will be dependent on the courses you have purchased. Please refer to your enrolment form and the terms and conditions to see the relevant deadlines.
How long will the course take? How many hours should I study for per week?
The course length will be dependent on the time you are able to dedicate to your study. The more time available, the quicker you are likely to complete your course. Our courses have been designed to study both part-time and full-time for all of our students, therefore the best way to work out how much time you need to study is to work out how many hours a week you can dedicate. If you still need more support please contact our Learners Support on 01329 823400.
How will I be able to advertise my business to potential clients?
Our Nutrition and Weight Management Course contains a lesson dedicated to marketing your services as a nutrition adviser with lots of useful advice on promoting your business.

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