Health, Fitness and Recreation Courses

Learn how to maintain a healthy heart, lungs and circulatory system

Aerobic fitness is critical to maintaining a quality of life and ability to simply move easily without pain or difficulty; whatever age a person is.

This course develops both an understanding of aerobic fitness, and a capacity to help others maintain their level of aerobic fitness, whether as a fitness leader, life coach, sports or health professional, concerned friend or in any other capacity whatsoever.

This Advanced Certificate is designed to develop skills required to work in or manage recreation facilities or services (eg. Community centres, youth services, sporting clubs, tourist parks, camp grounds, municipal recreation services, supervised childrens playgrounds, social clubs, etc). This is a good starting point for a career which might eventually lead to a position in management.

This course provides management oriented training for people wanting to work in the health and fitness or recreation industries on a technical or management capacity. Graduates will have a broad understanding of human health together with specialised skills that will be developed through your choice of elective units.

• Low impact excercise (less strsss on joints and muscles)
• Ideal for rehabilitation
• Popular with all types of people (elite sportsmen, elderly, people recuperating from an operation, etc).

This course is perfect for anyone interested in water fitness and safety as well as teaching some of the essential elements such as aquafitness equipment and facilities, hydrostatic and hydrodynamic principles, and program design and facilitating.This course is written by John Mason, author of the best selling book, "Aquafitness", published by Kangaroo Press.

This associate diploma lays a foundation for working with Food, Nutrition or allied industries. Through a unique combination of modules, you develop both a sound understanding of human biology and nutrition; and broad generic professional skills in problem solving and research skills. Graduates may find employment opportunities in various areas, including:  complimentary medicine, health and fitness industries, food services (eg. catering), food processing, food retailing, food journalism/media, etc

This Certificate is designed for people who already have some relevant knowledge, but need to braden the scope and deepth of knowledge in order to be able to provide more wholistic duidence to clients in helping them develop a better state of wellbeing and balance in their lives.

You may or may not be a graduate of another course at certificate , diploma or even degree level; or this may be your first formal qualification.

This certificate is focused for people wanting to or already are working with children as well as anyone wanting to develop skills for a career in childcare. This certificate is comprised of the following courses - Play Leadership, Introduction to Psychology, Child Psychology,  Children's Writing, Human Nutrition, Park and Playground Design I.

This course/module will enable you understand all aspects of childhood nutrition and deal with them. It is an ideal course for people working with children in the child care industry. It is also a good course for mothers wanting to understand their children’s nutritional needs and learn to cope with them or for self enhancement.

This expanded version of our Fitness Leader's certificate will give practitioners a competitive edge in the fitness industry.  It is appropriate for people who wish to work as fitness specialists such as personal trainers.  It is internationally accredited through the International Accreditation and Recognition Council.

This course explores human wellness as well as fitness with emphasis on common back and wieght problems.  Covers elements such as understanding, recognising, and addressing back problems as well as weight control methods.

Develops an understanding of the fitness industry, skills to explain exercise, and its importance to human health. Prerequisites: A first aid certificate (eg. St Johns) and an understanding of human biology (eg. Human Anatomy and Physiology); or equivalent. 

This course develops skills to manage fitness oriented services as well as covering fitness program managment such as fitness testing, exercise programming, and presciption. Prerequisites are either Health and Fitness I or a recognized fitness leaders certificate.

This course in fitness evaluation and managment develops skills in analysis, evaluation, and consequential management of health and fitness characteristics for a specific individual. Builds on Health and Fitness I and II.

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. Excellent for anyone interested in nutrition and health for themselves or to help or counsel others.

• College Member of the Complimentary Medicine Association
• This course provides credits in our Associate Diploma in Food and Nutrition (IARC accredited), the Advanced Diploma of Naturopathy (AQTF accredited, through HSA) and the Pre Med Diploma (Warnborough College).

Tutors and Course developers include:

• Lyn Quirk M.Prof.Ed.; Adv.Dip.Compl.Med (Naturopathy); Adv.Dip.Sports Therapy
• Alison Sweet B.Bio.Med.Sc. (Hon).
• Elizabeth Graves B.Sc.Hons.
• Vahini Panda B.Sc.(Dietetics), M.IT

This comprehensive introductory course focuses on the management and development of recreational facilities and will develop your ability to plan, develop and advise on facilities for a range of recreation and fitness activities. This course can be taken on its own or as part of a Certificate or higher level course. This course is usefiul and appropriate for anyone working in Leisure Centre Management, Event Management or even Tourism or Resort industries.

Half of this course focuses on facility design and the other half on managing maintenance of a facility. Students are assumed to have some broad experience or knowledge in Leisure Facility Management (Managing daily use is covered in far more detail in the first course, but not in this one).

Manage people better to build a stronger business

This course will help you to develop management strategies to maximise the productivity and efficiency of your workforce. Addressing concerns specific to human resources management in a recreation or fitness service or facility, this course will provide a strong practical and theoretical foundation in leisure management.

Develop management policy, procedural, and planning aspects of a recreation oriented service or facility.  This course covers policy development and management, meeting operational procedures, planning process managment, meeting and conference management as well as supervising reports.

A step toward employment in a medical or paramedical environment. Develops skills to communicate clearly and effectively using medical terminology. Being able to converse with patients and employers, in their language, is commonly an essential prerequisite for employment in  health, alternative or complimentary medicine.

This course can be a starting point for a careeerr in a para medical job, or in some situations all you might need for a job such as reception for a doctor or natural therapist.

GET YOURSELF FIT! 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.

An excellent starting point for anyone wishing to work in a face to face situation, conducting recreation programs, or one to one as a recreation or youth leader. Successful completion of this module will develop the learner's understanding of leadership qualities of the fitness workers and the industry.

This course is a basic for anyone wanting to into fitness instruction.  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.

Develop your understanding of the way nutrition relates to sporting performance. This course details some elements such as energy in the athlete's body, fluids, competition and training diets.  Perfect for the amateur sportsman or anyone wanting to increase their training levels or those of someone else.

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.