Personal Training PDA

What is special about this course?

This Professional Development Award will provide you with the underpinning knowledge and skills required to work in a personal training setting. The delivery of personal training services has several essential definitive features; respecting the client’s life experience, recognising the client and personal trainer as partners; providing services based on clients' preferences and choices; and it should be inclusive, promote self-determination and be based on person-centred planning.

This PDA would be suitable as continued professional development (CPD) for those currently employed or working as personal trainers who are looking to refresh and up-skill.
 

Special features

• On completion of this course you may also be eligible to apply to go on the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) register, therefore better preparing you for employment in the industry
• You will have the opportunity to make use of our sport and fitness facilities on campus
   

Entry requirements

The award is designed to complement the HNC/D in Fitness, Health and Exercise.

However if you do not have the HNC/D, you can still apply. You should have good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral. These could be evidenced either by the achievement of nationally recognised qualifications such as:

• SQA qualifications (or their equivalent from other awarding bodies) eg English/ Communication or other language-based subjects to a minimum of SCQF Level 5.
• SVQ at Level 2 in a related area, such as Instructing Exercise and Fitness

or by other methods such as:

• Process of application and interview
• Current relevant evidence from the workplace, such as reference from employer

To gain access to the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) register on completion of the PDA, you must already have an HNC/D Fitness, Health and Exercise including the unit H4TK34: Plan, Teach and Evaluate a Gym Based Exercise Session.

Year 1 - PDA

The PDA has five mandatory units (32 SCQF credits in total):

• Core strength and posture
• Deliver personal training sessions
• Metabolic considerations for personal trainers
• Planning and management of personal training
• Working effectively and safely with clients

Fees

The PDA is 32 SCQF (Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework) credits.

For students normally domiciled in Scotland, with a term-time address in Scotland, the following fees apply:

This includes

• EU nationals with settled or pre-settled status in the UK,
• EEA/Swiss nationals with settled status in the UK
• EEA/Swiss nationals with pre-settled status who are self-employed or migrant workers in the UK.

Rest of UK students

For students normally domiciled in the rest of the UK (England, Wales and N. Ireland, including Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) and with a term-time address in Scotland, or assessed as rest of UK for fee status, the following fees apply:

Fees are payable in advance each academic year unless otherwise agreed.

This course is not available for international students, including EU/EEA and Swiss nationals without settled status in the UK, requiring Student Route visa sponsorship to study here. For students living in the UK and assessed as international fee status, the following fees will apply:

This includes EEA/Swiss nationals with pre-settled status who are not self-employed or migrant workers in the UK.

Funding

External scholarships and financial support, such as an Individual Training Account, may be available. Please contact the relevant UHI partner for more information.