The REPs UAE Occupational Standards for the health and fitness industry
REPs UAE is based on the fitness industry standards which have been developed for each area of exercise and fitness instruction which is covered by the register.
Occupational Standards describe the skills, knowledge and competence needed to work as an instructor in the fitness industry. REPs UAE is a guarantee that instructors are competent and qualified against these standards. Instructors on REPs UAE have demonstrated that they can work to these standards, normally by gaining an approved qualification which teaches and assesses everything in these standards. The standards are based on the “ICREPs Global Standards” developed by the International Confederation for Registers of Exercise Professionals, the global organisation for fitness registers that REPs UAE is a member of.
The standards can be used by education providers do develop courses, employers to organise staff structures, or instructors themselves to map their skills and competences and plan their career.
The following is a list of the UAE Fitness Standards:
B2. Provide assistance to fitness clients in the gym
A1. Conduct health screening and assess client exercise preferences, barriers and goals
D3. Promote healthy eating and physical activity
I1. Develop professional practice and personal career in the health and fitness industry
B5. Instruct group exercise
B1. Apply principles of anatomy and physiology in a fitness context
G1. Promote health and safety in the fitness environment
B3. Plan and instruct exercise in the gym
B6. Plan and instruct water-based fitness
D1. Provide motivation and support as part of exercise instruction
H1. Provide customer service in health and fitness
B4. Plan and instruct group exercise to music (choreographed)
A2. Carry out client fitness assessments
C2. Manage, review, adapt and evaluate personal training programmes
D2. Support long term behaviour change by monitoring client exercise adherence and applying motivational techniques
B8. Plan and deliver personal training sessions
C3. Apply the principles of nutrition and weight management to exercise programme design
C1. Design personal training programmes
C4. Apply the principles of exercise science to programme design
B7. Plan and instruct mat based Pilates
Here you can download the standards.
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