Health and wellbeing partners and their courses in spotlight

CIMSPA wants to highlight the fantastic courses we have endorsed with the health and wellbeing sector. Below you can find a list of our training provider partners, a bit about them, and their courses.

Biomechanics Education

Biomechanics Education provides biomechanics courses for therapists, strength and conditioning coaches, personal trainers and pilates teachers.

• Pain Science
• Understanding Nerves

FitPro

FitPro is a team that is glued together by their passion for all things related to health, fitness and wellbeing and a true desire to help people and drive change.

• Exercise, Brain Health and Cognition
• Antenatal Core Training
• Introduction to Osteoporosis and the Fit Pro - Webinar
• Low carb diets: the evidence & the application
• Osteoporosis and Pilates
• Bone and Joint Mapping: The Ankle and Foot
• Bone and Joint Mapping: The Hip
• Bone and Joint Mapping: The Knee
• Bone and Joint Mapping: The Lower Body Series
• How to help clients with their pain: a neurophysiological perspective
• Training Clients with Joint Replacements
• An Introduction to Sciatica - Symptom not Condition with Cherry Baker
• Enable Creating Awareness, A Sense of Belonging, To Enhance Lives, Through Exercise. Everyone Deserves the Opportunity to Exercise
• Creating Behaviour Based Programmes
• Parkinson’s Pro - Parkinson’s Disease and the Exercise Professional
• Osteoporosis - Be a Bone Hero
• Cancer and exercise - the basics
• Certified Functional Aging Specialist
• Food for Thought - Eating and Exercise for Mental Health
• Stroke and Exercise Professional
• Arthritis and Osteoporosis: An understanding and appropriate exercise interventions
• Training for Premenopause through to post-menopause

The Fitness Course Company

Fitness Course Company comes with tens of thousands of client hours behind the team, work experience in every type of fitness facility, successful businesses created and hundreds of happy clients. They also have seen the other side of the coin, the failures, the missed opportunities, the hard work, the grind.

• Understanding Stress
• Postural Observations
• Mental Health and Physical Education

Active Health Group

Run by Richard, Christian and Kirsty, the Active Health Group’s courses are fully online, via e-books, audio, video, and webinars, and are designed to be studied for approximately six to eight hours per week.

• Sports Trauma Management

Virgin Active

Virgin Active was founded in 1999. Their first club opened in Preston, Lancashire that year. Initially headquartered in Milton Keynes, in 2013 headquarters were moved to the Barbican in London leaving a small call centre in Milton Keynes which closed in 2018. Now, they’re a massive world-wide sport and physical activity provider.

• Safeguarding Awareness

Precision Nutrition

Precision Nutrition began in 2005, when co-founders Dr. John Berardi and Phil Caravaggio joined together on two inspiring missions. To help clients all over the world discover the joys of living a fit, healthy life. And to help thousands of professionals deliver this purpose to their own clients.

• PN Level 2 Master Class
• Level 1 Sleep, Stress Management, and Recovery Coaching Certification
• Level 1 Certification: The Essentials of Nutrition and Coaching

Yoga 2 Hear

Yoga 2 Hear began in 2005 with just six audio yoga classes, they now offer an extensive range of over 100 different yoga, meditation and relaxation classes.

• Antenatal and Postnatal Yoga Instructor

Jobu

Jōbu is on a mission to motivate everyone to get and stay active, to use the NHS less now and in the future. Jōbu workshops share ‘nudge’ techniques to improve physical, mental and social wellbeing.

• Motivation & Behavioural Science Techniques To Help Clients Get & Stay Active

Future Fit

Future Fit has led the field in health and fitness qualifications since 1993, and along the way their training has amassed a wealth of industry awards to complement their knowledge and ever-increasing passion for fitness and wellbeing.

• Sciatica: What is it and what can you do about it?
• Functional hypertrophy: Theory and practical application
• COVID-19 awareness - reactivate to engage
• Living longer better awareness - reactivate to engage
• Improving communication - reactivate to engage
• Engaging inactive individuals - reactive to engage
• The detrimental effects of stress
• Mental Health Awareness
• How to beat cellulite
• Safeguarding for Sport and Physical Activity Staff
• Mental Health First Aider Unit 1: Awareness
• Shifting Perspectives – A powerful behaviour change tool Part 1: Why people commonly think fitness is ‘just fitness’ - Presentation
• Shifting Perspectives – a powerful behaviour change tool Part 2: How to change a perspective in 3 easy steps - Presentation
• COVID-19 Rehabilitation Unit 3: Application
• COVID-19 Rehabilitation Unit 2: Understanding
• COVID-19 Rehabilitation Unit 1: Awareness
• Mental Health First Aider Unit 3 : Application
• Mental Health First Aider Unit 2: Understanding
• Living Longer Better - Article
• Physical Activity and COVID-19 - Article
• Exercise for Cancer Unit 1 Awareness
• Exercise for Cancer Unit 2 Understanding
• Exercise for Cancer Unit 3 Application
• Children’s Physical Activity Instructor
• Planning and Delivering Physical Activity for Children
• Safeguarding Awareness
• Training client’s with long-term health conditions

Vivobarefoot Ltd

This is the course for personal trainers, practitioners, and physios to gain the full depth of knowledge on barefoot movement. On completion you’ll become a Vivobarefoot Accredited Coach.

• Barefoot Movement Coach

eCoach

eCoach courses are tailored to the needs of the sports industry and created in partnership with the very best experts, who excel in their field.

• Tackling Racism in Sport
• Mental Health and Wellbeing in Sport
• Equality and Diversity in Sport
• Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport

Orthopaedic Research UK

Orthopaedic Research UK aims to bring together the whole MSK community to share knowledge and expertise, attract new investment and act as a unified voice for the needs of the many millions of people in the UK suffering from poor bone, joint and muscle health.

• ESCAPE-pain (for knees and hips) training

Brookbush Institute of Human Movement Science

The Brookbush Institute optimizes the delivery of human movement science education by integrating technology, student-centered learning, and evidence-based, practical education.

• Joint Mobilizations and Manipulations: Introduction
• Joint Mobilizations and Manipulations: Evidence-based Teaching and Learning

Future Practice

The Practical Stress Resilience Coaching course will give you the knowledge, skills and support to deliver professional wellbeing advice to your clients and meet the growing demand in the corporate wellbeing space.

• Practical Stress Resilience Coaching

David Lloyd Clubs

With 126 clubs across the UK and Europe, David Lloyd Leisure is a leading health, sport and leisure provider.

• CYCLONE Instructor Training - Certification Course

Mind

Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

• Mental Health in Sport and Physical Activity Conference

Right Directions

Right Directions employ a number of highly experienced Leisure Managers, located across the UK. Their qualified and experienced people take time to understand the current working knowledge and complexities of each client and consequently, they are able to provide specialist support in both Quality Management and Health and Safety.

• COSHH Awareness for Managers
• COSHH Awareness for Frontline Staff
• Mental Health Awareness for Managers
• Mental Health Awareness for Frontline Staff
• Covid-19 Back to Business 2021

Nuffield Health and Wellbeing

Nuffield Health is the United Kingdom’s largest healthcare charity. Established in 1957 the charity operates 31 Nuffield Health Hospitals and 113 Nuffield Health Fitness and Wellbeing Centres.

• Exercise framework introduction
• Exercise framework in action
• Covid 19 Rehabilitation programme introduction

Platinum Training Institute

Platinum Training Institute provide a unique approach to education and training, they offer various pathways enabling you to choose the correct route to your ideal coaching career.

• Webinar Digital-De Clutter

CanRehab

Award winning providers of evidence based, specialist training in cancer and exercise for health and fitness professionals.

• Revalidation course
• CanRehab Level 4 Cancer and Exercise Rehabilitation
• Core Cancer Support Training Course

Wright Foundation CIC

The Wright Foundation is a brand leader in Exercise Referral and Specialist Populations Exercise Qualifications.

• Exercise for Arthritis Course
• Physical Activity Behaviour Change CPD webinar
• Behaviour Change Solutions: Keeping Clients’ Motivated
• Behaviour Change Solutions: Action Planning with clients
• Behaviour Change Solutions: Understanding clients’ needs
• Respiratory Conditions and Exercise CPD Webinar
• Exercise for Long Term Neurological Conditions
• Level 4 Pulmonary Rehabilitation Qualification
• Exercise and Arthritis CPD Webinar
• Understanding exercise for mental health CPD
• Level 4 Mental Health
• Level 4 Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase IV Qualification
• Level 4 Obesity & Diabetes Course
• Level 3 Diploma in GP Exercise Referral
• Wright Foundation CIC UK Virtual Seminar
• Level 4 Cancer Rehabilitation
• Obesity CPD Webinar
• Wright Foundation - Arthritis
• Level 4 Chronic Lower Back Pain
• Exercise for Neurological Conditions Webinar
• Exercise for Neurological Conditions
• Supporting people with eating disorders in exercise environments webinar

Core Exercise Solutions

Dr. Sarah Ellis Duvall wants to empower women to take exercise seriously, letting them regain confidence in their bodies and improving strength.

• Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist

BACPR

BACPR is a membership organisation, with over 900 health and exercise professionals across the UK, working towards their goal; promoting excellence in cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation.

• Physical Activity & Exercise in the Management of Cardiovascular Disease:
• Part II - Advanced Applications
• BACPR Level 4 Exercise Instructor Training

UK Coaching

Uk Coaching collaborates with organisations and pools their resources to make lasting improvements to coaching in the UK - from grass-roots through to elite performance levels.

• Sudden Cardiac Arest eLearning
• BHA Supporting safe and responsible gambling
• Safeguarding & Protecting Children
• Coaching Children 5-12 (online classroom)
• UK Coaching: Safeguarding & Protecting Children (16-18) Online Classroom
• Equality in Sport and Physical Activity

Burrell Education

Since February 2007, Burrell Education has curated leading-edge live and and now online courses and events designed to educate and support Women’s Health, Movement, Fitness, Physiotherapy, Soft Tissue Therapy and Coaching professionals, in the creation of their own stand-out offerings.

• Woman on Fire 2021 Online
• Modern Pregnancy Exercise and Wellness – Level 1 – UK LIVE
• C-Section, Hysterectomy and Abdominal Scar Immersion
• Pregnancy Massage 2-Day CPD Including Post Natal Massage & Remedial Therapy
• Modern Post Natal Exercise and Wellness - Level 1
• 3rd Age Woman
• Optimal Health After Hysterectomy
• Advanced Post Natal Wellness Practitioner - Level 2
• Working with The Pre/Post Natal Client Outdoors On-Line Global Certification
• Women’s Wellness and Whole Body Vibration Workshop
• Pelvic Flow And Freedom – Pelvis and Pelvic Floor Mobilization Re-Imagined
• Breathe Better – Optimizing Respiration for Health, Vitality and Core Function
• Optimal Nutrition & Lifestyle for Post Natal Healing & Recovery
• Meno-Strength - The A-Z of Strength Programming for the Midlife Female Client
• Kineseotaping in Pregnancy and Post Birth

Ukactive

ukactive is a not-for-profit industry association, promoting the interests of commercial fitness gyms and community leisure centres, with more than 3500 organisations in membership.

• SWEAT 2021 - The digital experience: how to pivot successfully
• SWEAT 2021 - The bounce back post Covid-19
• Active Uprising - Social Prescribing & Power of Data
• ukactive National Summit
• Active Uprising - Empowering the Workforce: The Reality of COVID-19 and Preparing the Workforce
• Active Uprising - Generation Active: Play On Panel – Connecting communities through a physical activity ecosystem
• Active Uprising Keynote - Casey Stoney MBE
• Active Uprising - Challenging the Mindset: Resilience
• Active Uprising - Digital Transformation
• Learning and Development Networking Event
• Active Uprising - Measuring what Matters
• Active Uprising - Empowering the Workforce: Leadership after Lockdown
• Active Uprising - Empowering the Workforce: Don’t tell - have a coaching conversation
• Active Uprising - Empowering the Workforce: ‘A year on, where is the workforce now’
• Active Uprising - Digital Transformation - Future of the sector in five years: Creating consumer brand value
• UK Active L&D event - Working with people with LTC

Later Life Training

Later Life Training provide specialist, evidence based, effective exercise training for health and exercise professionals working with older people and frailer older people.

• Postural Stability Instructor: Exercise for the Prevention of Falls and Injuries in Frailer Older People
• First Steps in Dementia
• Functional Fitness MOT (FF MOT)
• Functional Fitness MOT at Home

Midlands Tai Chi Rehab

Midlands Tai Chi Rehab increases access for recovering patients, having developed a tried and tested training program for Health Professionals. This enables staff to train to deliver sessions that also supports the continued attendance of patients in community classes, once discharged.

• Tai Chi and Qi Gong for Rehabilitation and Well-Being (8-day course)
• Tai Chi Qi Gong (TCQ) for Well-Being (2-day course)

Sportscotland

Sportscotland, formerly the Scottish Sports Council, is the national agency for sport in Scotland.

• Child Wellbeing & Protection Officer
• Child Wellbeing & Protection in Sport

Scoliosis and Spinal Fusion

The Scoliosis and Spinal Fusion 8 CPD points course will aim to cover the understanding of scoliosis and which exercises are suitable for this condition and exercises to avoid.

• Scoliosis and Spinal Fusion course

StreetGames UK

StreetGames harnesses the power of sport to create positive change in the lives of disadvantaged young people right across the UK. StreetGames’ work helps to make young people and their communities healthier, safer and more successful.

• Keeping Young People Safe in Doorstep Sport
• Keeping Young People Safe in Community Sport

Inclusive Educate

• Inclusive Groups

Tees Valley Sport Coaching Agency

Tees Valley Sport is one of 43 Active Partnerships in England. Threy work with partners across the Tees Valley which includes the local authority areas of Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton on Tees, Middlesbrough, Darlington and Hartlepool.

• Coaching Children and Young People

Lime Culture CIC

Established in 2011, LimeCulture quickly evolved into the UK’s leading sexual violence training and consultancy organisation. Through their breadth of professional knowledge and experience of working across the sexual violence sector, they are able to support their customers to deliver excellent services to victims of rape and sexual assault.

• Leading Safeguarding Officer Development Programme

Boing Kids

Boing Kids support practitioners to create playful, active and inclusive spaces that develop children’s physical literacy.

• The Boing Half Day Coaching Course

Adore Your Pelvic Floor

Adore Your Pelvic Floor is for everyone to raise awareness, manage or restore pelvic health and prevent future issues, whether you attend a gym or not.

• The Pelvic Floor Awareness Workshop
• Adore your floor coach

The Movement Charity

Established in 2020, theMovement is a London based charity that exists to restore the right to exercise for every woman.

• A Trauma Informed Approach to Exercise Provision

Girls Gone Strong

Girls Gone Strong is a movement dedicated to women’s health, strength and empowerment.

• Pre- & Postnatal Coaching Certification

National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine - East Midlands

The National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) is an Olympic legacy project delivering education, research and clinical services in sport, exercise and physical activity from three hubs across England.

• Disordered Eating in Athletes

Cancer Exercise Specialist

Run by Cancer Exercise Specialist Andrea Leonard, learn to create safe and effective exercise programming for improving health and vitality.

• Disordered Eating in Athletes

Meditation Personal Trainers

MPT is for those who learn and practise Meditation & Mindfulness techniques regularly.

• Meditation and Mindfulness Instructor training for Level 3 Exercise Professionals