Mental Health First Aid

The purpose of the Mental Health First Aid course is to provide learners with an understanding and awareness of mental health and common mental health disorders and issues. The course helps to reduce stigma and discrimination and encourages people to talk about mental health. Furthermore, the qualification should provide learners with the ability to apply their knowledge of mental health through recognising and responding to the signs of mental ill health in themselves and others, and be able to offer mental health first aid to people experiencing mental ill health.

Diploma in Exercise Referral

Become an Exercise referral instructor with the only course taught by doctors and help people with chronic medical problems improve their symptoms, disease progress and also their outlook. Exercise is medicine and with all the new government funding in place and exercise referral jobs vastly increasing both privately and in the NHS, now is the time to enter this exciting, rewarding and fast growing areas of health and fitness.

Pre and Post Natal Exercise Instructor

This course is for anyone who wants to work with clients who are pregnant or recently post-partum.

Diabetes and Obesity

Become an expert in exercise for diabetes and obesity. Learn from our expert medical team who work in the NHS. Learn how to prescribe exercise and advise on nutrition to this complex group of patients. Our tutors are doctors who will teach you the latest research and practice!

Lower Back Pain

Become an expert in lower back pain. Learn from our expert medical team who work in the NHS. Learn how to assess the back and prescribe appropriate exercises.

Hypertension and Exercise

This fantastic online course has been created by medical doctors, with an interest in exercise medicine.

This evidence based course looks into what really happens to blood pressure with exercise.

You will cover the fundamentals of blood pressure and control, how it is managed and how we should prescribe exercise.

This evidenced-based look at blood pressure and exercise is the only one of its kind in the UK.

Strength and Conditioning in Injury Rehabilitation

Tutor, Nick Grantham, has trained athletes for 4 Olympic Games, 2 Commonwealth Games and currently works with a football team in the Premier League.

This CPD course will give you an overview of the origins of Strength and Conditioning and how to incorporate Strength and Conditioning into programmes to help clients recover from injury.

At the end of the course you will receive a certificate, signed by Nick Grantham, as evidence of your CPD.

Muscle Physiology

Tutor, Jordan Curry, has an MSc in Clinical Exercise Physiology and a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science and teaches at College and University level.

This CPD course will give you an overview of muscle physiology. By the end of the course you will be able to understand the structure of skeletal muscle; understand the process of the proposed sliding filament theory, the structure of a sarcomere and why calcium is vital in skeletal muscle contraction; understand the types of adaptations that can occur in skeletal muscle due to chronic exercise; and understand the responses that can occur to skeletal muscle due to acute exercise.

At the end of the course you will receive access to a certificate which you can download and print as evidence of your CPD.

Sports Nutrition

Tutor, Charlie Binns, is a qualified performance nutritionist and is a Nutrition Consultant for Birmingham City Football Club.

This CPD course will give you an overview of Sports Nutrition. By the end of the course you will understand the fundamentals of nutrition and sports nutrition, the practical considerations of offering nutritional support to clients and performance nutrition, including nutrition for endurance athletes, team sport athletes and athletes that need to make weight criteria.

At the end of the course you will receive a certificate as evidence of your CPD.

Periodisation and Programming for Sports Performance

Tutor, Sam Bacon, has an MSc in Strength and Conditioning and a BSc in Applied Sport and Exercise Science alongside numerous vocational qualifications including NSCA and British Weightlifting.

This CPD course will give you an overview of periodisation and programming for sports performance. By the end of the course you will understand the principles that underpin effective programming, be able to perform a critical needs analysis, have the ability to apply scientific principles to a training programme design and understand how to adapt training variables to meet the demands of specific training phases. In this course you will also look at adopting a critical evidence-based approach to athlete development and understanding the real-world application of programming.

At the end of the course you will receive a certificate, signed by Sam Bacon, as evidence of your CPD.