Qualify as a personal trainer and learn to work with older adults and help manage certain injuries and health conditions.
This is the Level 2 and 3 Personal Training Diploma plus CPD in mental health awareness and training older adults.
The people who benefit most from a trainer are usually not the ones already in the gym. This route is for working with them: older clients, people managing their health, and the sessions where what somebody needs is not really about the training. It is steady, referral led work, and it is the part of the industry with the least competition.
Everybody competes for the same clients: already fit, already motivated, already there. Meanwhile the people whose lives would change most are at home, and the reason nobody works with them is that most trainers are not equipped to.
This route is for working with them. It is steady, referral led, and the least crowded part of the industry.
Anatomy, physiology, programme design, nutrition and coaching skills, plus how to adapt exercise for older adults, work with clients referred for medical conditions, support people training around injury, and recognise and respond to mental health needs.
You finish withFocus Awards Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training, plus Create certificates in health coaching
On completion, you'll achieve two Level 3 qualifications: a Level 3 Personal Training Diploma and a Level 3 Diploma in GP Exercise Referral. Both are accredited by Focus Awards under an OFQUAL-regulated curriculum, and the Personal Training Diploma is mapped to the CIMSPA professional standard. These are the qualifications employers and insurers recognise. Alongside them, you'll gain specialist certificates in training older adults, supporting clients around common gym injuries, and mental health awareness and first aid.
No prior qualifications are required. If you already hold a Level 2 Gym Instructor qualification, this course still builds on what you know and takes you further. It's designed for anyone who wants to work with older adults, clients with health conditions, or people recovering from injury, whether you're starting out or already in the industry.
Assessment is built into the learning. You're assessed after you've learned and applied the skills, not before. Across the diploma you'll complete programme design tasks, consultation analysis, a coaching and movement assessment, a final filmed personal training session, and a professional business portfolio. The GP Exercise Referral Diploma and the specialist courses are assessed through interactive workbooks, applied tasks and case study scenarios that reflect real coaching situations. Your final assessment brings everything together, so you can show how you'd work with a real client.
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You have 14 days from the day you enrol to change your mind, for any reason. Fully online courses keep the full 14 days. Where a course includes in-person elements and you attend one inside the 14 days, the cancellation right ends at that point.
A separate promise that applies once you have completed the course. It is not a cancellation right and it is not affected by the 14 day period. Both exist, and you do not have to choose between them.
An online course built around real lives. Study at your own pace, with support from experienced tutors and assessments mapped to professional standards. The specialist courses sit alongside your diploma, with a mix of written and video content and interactive workbooks throughout.
Useful feedback, fast, so you are not waiting a fortnight to find out whether you got it right.
Ask a tutor a question and hear back the same working day, not the same week.
Resubmit for as long as you have course access, at no extra cost. Nobody is passed before they are ready.
The people marking your work are coaching clients this week, not teaching from memory.
No cohort to keep up with and no set start date. Twelve months of access from the day you enrol.
Most people study around a job, which means evenings and weekends. Somebody is there then.
Working with the team at Create has been a great experience; the content, standards of training and tutor quality is first class. Their learning platform is easy to use, and the course content includes everything an aspiring fitness professional needs to be successful within the industry. I always prioritise connecting with trainers who study with Create to because I trust the quality and level of support offerred within the courses. As I recruit trainers across 75 gyms, both in the UK and internationally - it's exciting to see the next generation of coaches entering the industry with a Create PT certificate.
We're proud to offer Create learners the opportunity to work within our gyms. Having a relationship with Create for some time now, we've seen first-hand how seriously they take education and how well they prepare their learners for a career in personal training. Their courses provide a strong foundation, and with our ongoing internal education and guidance, we're able to develop these learners into confident and successful personal trainers. We're always happy to interview any learner who completes a Create course.
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Same teaching, same support, same guarantee on every one. The only difference is how far you specialise, and you can decide that later rather than today.
A 10 minute callback covers the same ground, one to one, at a time you choose. No sales pitch.
You get access to your learningEnrol and your account is live straight away. No cohort to wait for and no start date to work around.
Start working through the modulesStudy at your pace, in the order that suits you. Everything stays open for the whole of your access period.
Use the support when you need itTutors who mark the work answer the questions. Same working day replies, and marking inside 72 hours.
Complete your qualificationSubmit, get feedback, resubmit free of charge for as long as you have access. Nobody is passed before they are ready.
Join the Create ClubQualified is the start. The Club is where you keep learning, ask questions and stay in touch with the people you studied alongside.
Yes – we offer interest free payment plans up to 12 months.
No. The package includes the Level 2 Gym Instructor and Level 3 Personal Training qualifications, so you can start from scratch.
It’s self-paced. Most learners complete the PT Diploma within 4-5 months, with the Health Coaching Specialism adding around 1-2 months.
Yes. It’s delivered online and self-paced.
Yes. The Personal Training Diploma is accredited by Focus Awards, Ofqual regulated and CIMSPA recognised. The Level 3 GP Referral is accredited by Focus Awards, and the other courses are recognised CPD.
You’ll be qualified to work as a personal trainer and work with referred clients from their GP or NHS. You’ll also be able to specialise further in working with older adults and helping clients train around common injuries.
Level 3 GP Referral, training older adults, mental health awareness & first aid, and 3 CPD courses in training clients around common injuries.
It combines the full Level 2 & 3 Personal Training Diploma with a range of specialist courses in health coaching. You qualify as a personal trainer and gain skills in coaching older adults, GP referral, mental health and training alongside common injuries.
Anyone who wants to qualify as a personal trainer and coach clients on their wider health, habits and lifestyle specifically older adults and referred clients with certain health conditions. It suits aspiring and existing trainers who want to offer a more holistic service.
Older clients, people managing their health, and the sessions where what somebody needs is not really the training. It is the most loyal client base in fitness and the least fought over.
