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Understand the Principles of Exercise and Fitness (CPD) — Online Learning

Course outline

This short ‘CPD certified’ programme of learning is a great addition to your CV to show your commitment to health and fitness and is also ideal for heightening your awareness of positive lifestyle changes and the benefits they can have.

  • Section 1: Exercise
    • Within this section you will learn about the important role exercise plays in maintaining general health and well-being, the types of activities that can improve your health and fitness and why we need to exercise.
  • Section 2: Nutrition
    • Section 2 covers the nutritional guidelines for a healthy diet and explains how nutrition affects our everyday health and fitness.
  • Section 3: Anatomy and physiology
    • The final section will guide you through the different systems in the human body, including the different terms associated with each system and what effects exercise has on these systems.

How to enrol onto this course

Apply now and if you need to pay any course fees, or provide evidence if you wish to claim a fee reduction, we will contact you to let you know how to do this.

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Location Date / time Fees / reductions
Online Learning

You can start this course at any time.

No fee reductions available. All students pay the same fee.

Tuition fee: £28.50

Course code: C034377 / Q034378

Qualification

College Certificate
Duration

You will learn at your own pace, but the course typically takes approximately 4 hours to complete.
Level Level 1
Entry requirements

There are no formal entry requirements for this course but you must have a reasonable standard of spoken and written English and be aged 19 or over.
Teaching & assessment

The course is auto-assessed with questions throughout the learning material.