Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Providing Nutritional Advice to Your Clients

Personal Trainer\'s Toolkit: Providing Nutritional Advice to Your Clients

Central Queensland University

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Start Date: 11 Oct, 2021
2 weeks
Study Content: Videos

Understand how to give effective nutritional advice to your fitness clients, and when this guidance goes beyond your remit.

Course Fee: Free

Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility

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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Provide nutritional advice to clients within your scope of practice.

As a fitness professional, your clients may expect guidance on nutrition as part of their fitness journey with you, but giving nutritional advice is complicated and often reserved for those with relevant qualifications.

On this two-week course, you’ll learn the skills and knowledge required to encourage your clients to make healthy choices, but also to recognise when this advice goes beyond your remit as a personal trainer.

You’ll learn how to identify the dangers of providing food advice in a fitness setting, and how to support your clients in getting the assistance they need.

Identify trustworthy information sources for fitness and nutrition

You’ll learn how to recognise appropriate information sources to ensure you are giving your clients reputable guidance on nutrition.

You’ll also be able to identify at what point giving nutritional advice becomes unethical and outside of your capacity, and the steps you can take to help refer your client to an accredited professional.

Gain knowledge from specialists at the CQUniversity

By the end of the course, you’ll feel confident in knowing your boundaries as a fitness professional when giving nutritional advice to your clients.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with project-based learning from CQUniversity, and feel equipped with the skills to provide responsible and effective advice and nutrition plans.

On completion of this course you will be able to:

Understand your scope of practice in providing nutritional advice to clients
Identify referral pathways to accredited professionals for nutritional advice for clients
Recognise appropriate sources for nutritional advice to provide to clients.

This course will suit you if you’re a non-medical professional looking to upskill in the areas of nutrition and fitness. It will be particularly useful if you are an existing personal trainer or fitness leader.

Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

Central Queensland University

This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

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