Qualifications

Qualifications


Below you will find a fairly comprehensive list of all the main qualifications gained over a twenty plus year career. I haven’t included workshops, short course qualifications and all the small “add-on” modules or things I don’t think are as necessary to include - it’s just the main certificates, diplomas and professional memberships. 

And then from this list I have only chosen a certain selection of documents that you can view if you click the accompanying link.
This is partly because in some cases there simply isn’t a bit of paper to show! For instance I first qualified as a Personal Trainer with The Holmes Place Training Academy in 2003, and I worked for this company as a Personal Trainer for a number of years before starting my own business. Holmes Place was bought by Virginactive in 2006, and Holmes Place and their Training Academy no longer exist! I subsequently gained a second Personal Training Diploma with Future Fit Training, and this is the one you will find a link to view.

(Actually the company/brand Holmes Place does still exist outside of the UK, and you can read about their beginnings and the club I started out at in Chelsea in London, and their story and eventual exit from the UK on their website www.holmesplace.com/en/en/our-story)

I have added explanations to some of the following where I think it will prove helpful...

Fitness Instructor Certificate   (click to view)
8th May 2003, Fitness Industry Education
(In 2015 Fitness Industry Education re-branded as TrainFitness

Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity ("CIMPSA")
First registered 19th May 2003, with the older, now closed Register of Exercise Professionals ("REPs")
Membership Number: R0007272
Advanced Instructor Level 3

CIMSPA is the professional development body for the UK’s sport and physical activity sector. The public can  search the CIMPSA database to check that a coach or trainer has completed a qualification that meets UK and international standards: https://www.cimspa.co.uk

Personal Trainer Levels One and Two
July 2003 and October 2004,
Holmes Place Training Academy 
(see introduction above)

Pre and Post Natal Course
July 2003, Holmes Place Training Academy

Yoga Teacher Diploma (click to view)
13th December 2003, The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Neyyar Dam, India

Certificate in Fitness Instructing Gym Level 2   (click to view)
16th December 2003, Central YMCA Qualifications

OCR Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Mat Based Pilates (click to view)
February 2004

Certificate in Torso Training and Core Stability
March 2005, Future Fit Training

Certificate in Nutrition and Weight Management 
February 2007, Future Fit Training and University of East London

Certificate in Applied Nutrition
January 2008, Future Fit Training

Personal Trainer Diploma (click to view)
Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training
April 2008, Future Fit Training
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