Health, Fitness and Recreation Courses

Study Aerobic Fitness - distance learning course for Personal Trainers or Fitness Instructors.

For a career in aerobic instruction learn about class design and management; and group leadership.

This course will provide you with knowledge and skills needed to be able to conduct exercise to music classes in a safe and enjoyable manner which promotes health and fitness to the community, or clients and you!

Do you love fitness?  Do you understand the benefits of exercise in water?

Aqua Fitness activities might be defined as any fitness activities undertaken when the body is submerged or partially submerged in water. This can include Swimming, Diving (high board or scuba), Snorkelling, Aqua Aerobics, Hydrostatic Stretching, Deep Water Running, or even more structured games such as Water Volleyball or Water Polo.

This course is relevant to all of these to a point, though the emphasis is Aqua Aerobics, Deep Water Running, Swimming and Stretching and will provide you with the skills and knowledge needed to plan and conduct an Aqua Fitness class.

It is perfect for anyone interested in water fitness and safety as well as teaching some of the essential elements such as aqua fitness equipment and facilities, hydrostatic and hydrodynamic principles, and program design and facilitating.

Study Aromatherapy at home, learn about the healing power of plants.  

Study our course to learn the safe use of aromatherapy essential oils, and the natural ways to promote healing and relaxation. 

 ACS Student comment: "This course was very interesting, challenging and very worthwhile"  N. Mills, Aromatherapy

Study nutrition for children!

Learn how nutrition is important before pregnancy, during pregnancy, infancy, young childhood years, late childhood and for teenagers.

This course was developed by qualified and experienced nutritionists and has been continuously revised in line with current nutritional guidelines. 

This course is always in demand - find out what you're missing!

ACS Student comment: "I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I had not studied for the past 10 years and was a little apprehensive. The staff were very supportive, their feedback was always valuable and response time was extremely prompt. This course has given me a new desire to keep learning. I never knew learning could be so enjoyable. I am looking forward to my next learning experience through ACS". Rhonda Rae, Children's Nutrition

Want a career in event management?

 

Love organising parties?

Learn how to successfully plan, organise, manage and review all kind of events, such as gallery openings, exhibitions, and events in sports, recreation, tourism and hospitality. 

Do you really understand the importance of testing current fitness levels before embarking on a fitness regime?  Do you suffer from illness or have had a recent injury which could be aggravated through exercise?  Are you a personal trainer looking to enhance your skills and knowledge?

This course explores human wellness as well as fitness with emphasis on common back and weight problems with fitness and posture testing. The course covers elements such as understanding, recognising and addressing back problems as well as weight control methods through fitness and exercise.  Avoid expensive physiotherapy, remedial massage or doctor costs by assessing fitness and altering exercise patterns to suit your needs!

Click on the link for more information about this informative and useful course... this makes a great module as part  of our Certificates or Dimplomas in health and fitness and is a must for professionals in this industry!

How would you like to be more confident in your your understanding of the health and fitness industry?  Are you going to become a fitness leader?  Would you like to learn how to develop fitness programs which really have an effect on muscles and physiological systems of the human body?

This course leads the way to new skills to confidently to explain exercise and its importance to human health to those around you, whether yoou are a fitness leader, work with children, volunteer in community activity programs.  It is the foundation course of 3 to get your on your way to real understanding of human health in relation to physical fitness.

Important Prerequisites: A first aid certificate (through St Johns Ambulance Service etc) and an understanding of human biology e.g. Human Anatomy and Physiology or Biology (high school year 11 biology at least). 

Build on your knowledge of human fitness! 

Could you confidently design and manage a fitness program? 

Learn how to carry out effective fitness testing techniques for your clients and customers, as without fitness testing you can't create safe and beneficial programs!

This course develops skills to manage fitness oriented services as well as covering fitness program management such as fitness testing, exercise programming and prescription.  The course also looks at your leadership skills and helps you develop understanding of the required qualities of leaders in this industry. 

Important Prerequisites: Health and Fitness I or a recognised fitness leaders certificate.

This course was recently revised by highly qualified industry professionals with specialist knowledge.

Build a solid career future in health and fitness! Develop your skills and become one of the industry's best professionals!

This is a course in fitness evaluation and management. It develops skills in analysis, evaluation, and consequential management of health and fitness characteristics for a specific individual.

It is an excellent study program for professional development, as part of a larger (certificate or diploma) program, or as a stand alone course of study to enhance your capacity to live a better and more productive life.

A stand alone course, but also complements Health and Fitness I and II. It is not recommended you enrol in this course unless you have some previous human biology (physiology) qualifications or fitness testing experiece.  Alternatively,  call our friendly tutors for free course counselling, suggesytions and advice to help you find out the options available to you.

Distance Education Course -Learn to be Healthier

 This comprehensive foundation course develops an understanding of the nature and scope of human health and wellbeing, and of the health and fitness industry looking at subjects such as nutrition, lifestyle, preventative health, and alternative medicine.

What is Good Food?

 

Comments from ACS Student: Because I am expanding my knowledge and the things I am learning in this course I can use in everyday life as well, for example, when it comes to making food choices, I think back to what I have learned in this course and think about how certain foods can benefit me and my body. I am getting feedback about how I am progressing, both negative and positive points which help me to improve and also give me confidence in what I am doing and also motivate me. S. Ryan, Australia - Human Nutrition 1

Are you keen to develop your career in nutrition? Perhaps you work with children, young people or the elderly in a health care environment, and need to develop more knowledge of dietary plans and special nutritional needs?

This course provides an understanding of the sources, actions, and interactions of nutrients from the food that we consume. Looking at the balance of the nutrients in foods and what makes up a balanced diet.

It is a useful course for anyone who is interested in nutrition and health either for themselves or to help and advise others. It is more then a collection of information; this is a carefully developed program tutored by university trained and experienced nutritional scientists; it provides sequenced learning experiences.

Distance Learning Course for a Better Diet

Healthy Eating Makes a Healthy Mind and Body

It is really very important that people who work with food understand the chemical composition of different foodstuffs

Develop Marketing Skills for the Leisure Industry
During this course you will learn to develop strategies to market recreation facilities or services.  The course shows you how to do things such as: Develop marketing and promotions to maintain or increase business; Manage the delivery of a service to ensure customer satisfaction; Monitor a membership database to ensure return business and Manage complaints.

Learn about:

• Public relations, Promotions and Advertising
• Getting the word to potential customer, clients and the general public
• Why and how people go about making decisions such joining a gym, enrolling in a recreation program, taking up a new hobby or supporting a sporting club.
• How to keep clients happy and maximise the chance of return sales.

Develops skills to communicate clearly and effectively using medical terminology.

This course is relevant to anyone working or wishing to work in fields of health, alternative medicine or para medical areas; such as reception for a doctor or natural therapist.

Nutrition Courses - Weight Loss

Learn to manage weight more effectively

Weight is affected by a number of things: exercise, nutrition, psychology and other things. This course lays a foundation for understanding weight control; particularly with respect to what a person eats. Study for self improvement (to help understand and reduce their own weight); or by someone working in the fields of health or fitness, in order to improve their understanding and capacity to help clients.

This is a course for: 

• Life Coaches and Fitness Leaders
• Anyone working in Nutrition or Health Support, needing to develop this knowledge
• Individuals seeking to better manage their own weight or that of their family

Study at home - learn the best ways to improve your fitness.

This highly practical course helps you to understand what fitness really is, and enables you to develop a balanced fitness program for yourself or for people around you covering topics such as the human body, principals of exercise programming, and weight control.

Play Leader Course -Do you want to work in child care? Do you want to have play leadership skills?

A valuable course for anyone working, or wishing to work with children as well as anyone wanting to expand their understanding and knowledge of child development through play and safety in play. Our staff have experience training play leaders since the late 1970s.

Play leaders are people who create and manage play opportunities. Sometimes play leaders are people who are fulfilling a duel role. They can be parents, teachers, pre school teachers, or nannies, who look after both the play needs, and other needs of children in their care.

Some play leaders are employed specifically to concentrate on managing the play needs of children. They may be an assistant to a teacher or care worker, or they may be employed in a supervised playground, play centre or other facility that focuses on play.

Study, Learn, Work as a Recreation Leader

An excellent starting point for anyone wishing to work in the field of recreation -conducting recreation programs or one to one as a recreation or youth leader. This module will develop knowledge and understanding of leadership qualities of the fitness workers in the industry.

Distance Learning Course for Strength Training and Exercise

Resistance exercise is important for building and maintaining muscle strength. This can involve using weight machines, free weights and other exercises.

Muscle strength is increasingly important in modern society where many people are increasingly physically inactive, even at work. Through proper and regular resistance exercise, a person can control spinal problems and many other issues associated with aging. For others, strength training can be an important part of an overall excercise regime.

Some of the elements covered include types of resistance training, equipment and applications as well as developing training methods.

Students must have access to a gym for the practical component. 

 SPORTS NUTRITION COURSES - ONLINE TRAINING

Nutrition in Sports

Study Sports Psychology at Home

This course/module will develop your skills and understanding of psychological principles for use in sports. The curriculum covers motivation, team dynamics as well as psychological traits of successful athletes.

How to Rest -Study Stress Management from Home

Anxiety, tension, and mental and emotional strain are all common problems in modern society. This course introduces you to some practical approaches to understanding how it affects the body, dealing with the symptoms, and giving you tools to combat stress. 

Learn how to use diet to support Health Problems

Distance Education Course for Weight Loss Consulting

The prevalence of obesity is increasing in all age groups and virtually all populations worldwide.
With this rise in obesity rates has come a wide range of opportunities to develop weight loss services to help clients to lose weight and increase their fitness levels.
Throughout this course we shall examine how to set up effective weight loss services and provide you with the knowledge and skills to support these services.