SIS40221 Certificate IV in Fitness
Help others become the best version of themselves
Get qualified as a personal trainer and launch a successful fitness career, helping others set and reach their personal fitness goals.
In this advanced fitness course, develop the skills to run a business, manage client relationships and deliver personalised exercise programs.
Overview
Where Murdoch
When Semester 1, 2025
How On Campus
The Certificate IV in Fitness gives you the skills and knowledge you need to become a qualified personal trainer (PT) or group personal trainer.
This rewarding career provides job versatility, and you can work as a trainer both indoors and outdoors in gyms, council run leisure and community centres, client workplaces and homes, or online. You can be employed by a gym or be self-employed owning your studio or providing one-on-one or group training, even doing personal training as a second job and setting your own hours.
In this advanced fitness course you will learn how to run your own business and manage client relationships, and how to develop and deliver personalised exercise programs for a range of groups from teens to seniors, athletes and people with disabilities. You will be able to apply the skills of functional anatomy and strength and conditioning techniques to your training programs.
Our courses are widely respected in the fitness industry and you can build your technique in our new functional training centre at Murdoch and be trained by our expert lecturers with strong industry connections.
Study in specialist facilities
Industry trends are changing and advancing, and to ensure our training facilities are cutting-edge, in November 2022 we opened a brand-new functional training centre for Certificate IV in Fitness students. The centre includes a multi-rig with 8 cells, barbells, weight plates, rowers, spin bikes, kettlebells, deadballs, dumbbells, plyometric boxes and benches to teach the technique of exercises such as squats, pull-ups, benchpress, deadlifts, shoulder press and more.
Students also learn in a dedicated outdoor personal training centre space to develop skills in teens’ personal training, childrens’ programs and outdoor personal training.
- Instruct and deliver personal training to a range of clients, including adolescents, seniors, athletes, and those with more complex exercise needs
- Plan and deliver training to change client’s body composition (muscle gain and fat loss)
- Planning and marketing your fitness business
- Simple diet analysis, and providing healthy eating advice to clients
- Deliver safe, effective online personal training
- Work closely with medical and allied health professionals, and take control of your own professional development to further your skills
- Understand workplace safety and health practices
In order to make an informed choice about the suitability of this course, you must take into account the essential skills and knowledge required to undertake this study.
- enjoy being physically active and participating in exercise
- be a team player
- be driven and have a passion for helping people to achieve their goals in health and fitness
- be customer focused, enthusiastic and energetic
- be able to multi-task
- have basic math skills
Select your preferred campus and apply
Semester 1, 2025
Details
Units and fees
Core
| National ID Unit title | General fee | Concession | Resource fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHCCOM006 Establish and manage client relationships | $146.40 | $44.10 | $8.25 |
| SISFFIT041 Develop personalised exercise programs | $317.20 | $95.55 | $16.25 |
| SISFFIT042 Instruct personalised exercise sessions | $317.20 | $95.55 | $16.25 |
| SISFFIT043 Develop and instruct personalised exercise programs for body composition goals | $219.60 | $66.15 | $10.75 |
| SISFFIT044 Develop and instruct personalised exercise programs for older clients | $341.60 | $102.90 | $16.25 |
| SISFFIT045 Develop and instruct personalised exercise programs for adolescent clients | $390.40 | $117.60 | $21.75 |
| SISFFIT049 Use exercise science principles in fitness instruction | $268.40 | $80.85 | $16.25 |
| SISFFIT050 Support exercise behaviour change | $244.00 | $73.50 | $16.25 |
| SISFFIT051 Establish and maintain professional practice for fitness instruction | $268.40 | $80.85 | $16.25 |
| SISFFIT053 Support healthy eating for individual fitness clients | $317.20 | $95.55 | $21.75 |
Elective
| National ID Unit title | General fee | Concession | Resource fee |
|---|---|---|---|
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$268.40 | $80.85 | $29.25 |
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$219.60 | $66.15 | $29.25 |
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$219.60 | $66.15 | $29.25 |
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$219.60 | $66.15 | $60.00 |
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$170.80 | $51.45 | $30.75 |
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$292.80 | $88.20 | $16.25 |
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$195.20 | $58.80 | $16.25 |
Indicative fees and charges
The fees quoted are estimates only and are for all units in the course for students enrolling on a full-time basis. If you're a student that has successfully completed a lower-level qualification that is a prerequisite for this course, you'll only pay for the units that you need to enrol in to complete this course. Please view the full list of fee disclaimers.