This course qualifies you as a Fitness Professional with a strong portfolio of specialisms including Advanced Personal Training and Strength & Conditioning for Athletes and Teams. This course qualifies you as a Fitness Professional with a strong portfolio of specialisms which include Advanced Personal Training and Strength & Conditioning for Athletes and Teams.<br>Your final year will be interfaculty with a strong emphasis on business skills with modules including Financial Management, Public Relations & Marketing, Human Resource Management, Multimedia, Health Promotion, Diverse Populations, Event Management and more. This will provide you with strong supervisory and management skills in addition to your exercise and fitness specialisms.<br>Graduates of our programme are already out in the industry after the 1st year of the programme, working on a part time basis, learning through doing.... This programme is a very practically applied programme and develops the practical skills in the formative years of the programme, whilst building on academic and management skills in the later years.<br>This four year honours degree in Exercise & Health Fitness Management provides you with a broad introduction to a career in the fitness industry. In the first year, you will study a curriculum to qualify as a Fitness Instructor/Gym Instructor.<br>You will study two core specialisms in Year 2: Advanced Personal Training and Strength & Conditioning for Athletes and Teams. Advanced Personal Training will provide you with the knowledge and skills to work with clients inside and outside of the gym environment, in their home or elsewhere with any fitness level, with any goal and with the minimal amount of equipment needed. The Strength & Conditioning for Athletes & Teams module focuses on training sports teams and athletes in their physical preparation for a season or specific sporting event. You will work on improving their overall performance by ensuring they are in optimal condition to meet the specific demands of their sport. <br>The central focus of Year 3 is to move in the direction of business management and higher specialisation whist engaging in your co-operative placement. The modules you will study are Research Skills, Applied Multimedia in Exercise & Fitness and students will complete their co-operative placement which is viewed as an essential part of your professional development.There may be opportunities for Erasmus on this programme.<br>The Year 4 curriculum offers individuals the opportunity to research, study and practice in the area of Exercise & Health Fitness Management. The previous 3 years provide you with a wide variety of exercise and fitness qualifications and year 4 compliments and strengthens your qualification with a range of business and marketing skills leading to a highly employable graduate.