Personal Trainers Academy
Who Trains the Trainers?... We Do!
A Word from Rod
Thank you for taking time to find out more about the Renouf Personal Trainers Academy.
To become a fitness professional requires real dedication – and a willingness to challenge yourself daily – as you learn and apply the exciting elements of exercise, nutrition and fitness-related fundamentals that form part of the personal training experience.
As the owner of Renouf Personal Training, with centres in Applecross, Duncraig, Shenton Park and South Perth, and with more than ten years’ experience as a personal trainer and manager in the industry, I have built a committed team passionate about providing outstanding service to clients at an unrivalled level of integrity.
Perth’s leader in personal training since 1992, Renouf Personal Training has a strong history of developing great fitness (personal) trainers, combining a sound educational foundation with applied practical experience – working with real clients under the tutelage of a mentor or master trainer.
The Renouf Personal Trainers Academy embodies this holistic philosophy in a unique approach which enables students to benefit, not only from the years of industry experience possessed by each of our facilitators, but also from a four to six week Work Experience System (WEXS) designed to ensure graduates can not only learn, but can effectively apply that knowledge in both one-to-one and group training situations.
The WEXS program is the critical element distinguishing Renouf Personal Trainers Academy graduates from others – creating fitness professionals who, even at the beginning of their career, have already gained a level of practical experience highly valued by potential employers and future clients alike.
My team and I are proud of the program we have developed at Renouf Personal Trainers Academy and, if you are serious about a career in fitness, I invite you to work with us to achieve your goal of becoming a Certified Fitness (Personal) Trainer.
Regards,
Rod Shuttleworth
Managing Director
Renouf Personal Trainers Academy
Renouf – Perth’s Leader in Personal Training
Renouf Personal Training
The defining strength of the Renouf Personal Trainers Academy is that is has been established by Perth’s largest and most successful personal training organisation – Renouf Personal Training – meaning that Renouf Personal Trainers Academy students are trained to become fitness leaders by WA’s personal fitness experts.
Established in 1992 to deliver holistic one-to-one and group training combining exercise and nutritional coaching, Renouf Personal Training quickly grew from modest beginnings to an upmarket, boutique, results-driven leader in the development of a professional and well-respected industry.
Renouf Personal Training’s success has been marked by a commitment to building both expertise and innovation, including the creation of specialised training programs including funfit4kids, teenShape and outdoor X-training to cater for new client groups which emerged as people became more aware of the benefits of personal training and fitness.
Renouf Personal Training also holds an industry-leading re-sign rate, indicating that clients appreciate the personal attention and sustained results achievable with the Renouf approach.
A professional industry delivering a quality service requires highly skilled and motivated fitness trainers. The Renouf Personal Trainers Academy, created by trainers for trainers, provides aspiring fitness professionals with the best training, education and practical work experience possible. Using knowledgeable and experienced fitness experts and Master Class personal trainers, the comprehensive program combines education across a range of essential modules with the unique Work Experience System (WEXS), offering students a learning environment unlike any other.
The Academy Difference
Holistic Learning Method
Each week, Renouf Personal Trainers Academy students study topics from each of the five modules, thereby gaining a sound understanding as to how the various facets of fitness and personal training operate in synergy.
Research also indicates that this style of learning enhances information retention and offers the maximum opportunity for consistent improvement in knowledge and understanding – the ideal method for ensuring students graduate as well-developed personal trainers.
Work Experience System (WEXS)
Four weeks of training real clients in one of Renouf Personal Training’s four centres gives Renouf Personal Trainers Academy students the edge that employers are looking for – not simply qualifications, but the added knowledge that comes from practical experience.
Under the tutelage of a Renouf mentor, students learn the thrill of guiding clients towards their goals in both one-to-one and group training situations using Renouf ‘secrets’ such as Motivational Sessions, Achievement Sessions and Quick Results Program.
In addition, students will acquire a valuable understanding of facility maintenance, training centre design and layouts, accounting skills and effective sales presentations.
Xtra Outdoor/Indoor Training Workshop
Perth’s wonderful climate offers incredible opportunities to take training outdoors. Renouf Personal Trainers Academy specialised workshops explore the advantages and benefits of the advanced techniques used by experienced, diverse trainers taking training “out of the gym” – including team training, park and beach training, cross training and TRX systems.
Personal Twelve Week Fitness Challenge
Do you know what it feels like to change your body, your shape and your life in twelve weeks? Renouf Personal Trainers Academy graduates not only talk the talk with their clients – they can show that they have walked the walk! Students embark on a twelve week challenge to personally experience what they ask of their clients, including regular sessions to discuss training strategies, nutritional successes (and failures!) and the different emotional and physiological barriers faced by each individual.
Students also receive twenty-four Action Training Sessions to use at one of Renouf’s Personal Training Centres to both assist in reaching their goals and to better understand what great group personal training can offer.
WIIFM – What’s in it for me?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend each day of your life motivating and inspiring others to reach their goals? To work in an exciting, stimulating industry full of challenge and innovation? To be your own boss? To make the $$$ you want to make? To have a lifestyle that lets you decide what days and what times you start and finish?
The fact that you have expressed an interest in the Renouf Personal Trainers Academy shows that you have a real desire to take your life in a new direction. Whether you are looking for a complete change in career or simply to learn more about your own personal health and wellbeing, you may just have taken the first step towards changing your life
The fitness industry is expanding at a phenomenal rate and the scope and possibilities as to what can be achieved seem endless. The growth and increasing diversity of the fitness industry means ever greater opportunities for enthusiastic and professional leaders who are passionate about sharing their commitment to health and fitness.
Depending on your personal aspirations and natural attributes, you could find yourself working as a gym instructor, group fitness leader, rehabilitation specialist, personal trainer, strength and conditioning trainer, fitness consultant, lecturer or motivational speaker – or perhaps in administration, sales or management. Many people will find themselves working in several varied and exciting areas as they progress through their professional career.
Becoming a fitness professional will also allow you to fulfil your personal, lifestyle and financial goals – with a range of options depending on whether you want to work full-time, part-time, as a casual or in a self-employed capacity.
A Renouf Personal Trainers Academy qualification is well-respected as both the fitness industry and clients recognise the high standards of professionalism which is the basis of the Renouf philosophy.
Whatever you hope to achieve as a professional in the fitness industry, a qualification from Renouf Personal Trainers Academy will not only enable you to commence your career but will provide you with a key advantage when competing for employment or placing a value on your services.
The RPTA Way
Our RPTA facilities are located in Shenton Park providing a massive 672 m2 of exercise floor space with excellent training facilities including new cardio and resistance equipment. All theory sessions are presented in our private lecture room. Our Xtra Outdoor Training program, held at special Perth locations on Fridays, provide RPTA students with dynamic training and learning experiences that are essential to becoming a multi skilled Trainer, who understands that not all Fitness leaders nor their clients want to train in indoor facilities
Renouf has a team of lecturing personnel and skills coaches that have been in the Renouf system for over 10 years. We are Fitness Leaders who became Renouf Personal Trainers, Renouf Master Class Trainers, and Renouf Supervisors and ultimately have become business owners. We have become published authors, health supplement owners and are most importantly are working in our Industry as Leaders, and this is the kind of person you want to learn from.
That means that your RPTA qualifications will be recognized anywhere in Australia and in many countries overseas. In addition we also provide the RPTA Master Class Seminars as our advanced learning program.
Each Renouf course is fun, stimulating and informative. More importantly they are taught in the most up to date manner Holistically.
The Holistic approach is the superior teaching/-learning environment to date. The student is taught from the beginning with the end result in mind, of becoming a well-rounded Fitness Leader. Therefore you will learn about anatomy, physiology, nutrition, and business on a weekly basis, not chunked into the first two days of your program and forgotten by the end. It is now proven that memory retention after 2 hours on the same topic diminishes greatly as does your interest. Keep it fresh, keep it interesting and keep moving forward.
RPTA is a Registered Training Organization (RTO) meeting all of the stringent guidelines of the Australian Qualification Training Framework (AQTF)to ensure the competency standards are met and exceeded in Certificate III (SRF30206) and Certificate IV (SRF40206) courses.
Due to the nature of the fitness industry and the increasing demands professionally all aspiring fitness leaders MUST complete Certificate lll as a minimum requirement for employment in the fitness industry. Certificate lll covers all of the essential knowledge and practical components.
Certificate lV moves into the more advanced areas of exercise, nutrition, sports, performance and specialized techniques. Skilled positions such as a personal trainer, rehabilitation, strength and conditioning coach or for personal benefits to be able to finally understand how to train and keep yourself healthy.
Master Class Trainer was designed to fill the continual needs and desires Fitness Leaders have to improve their knowledge and ability to keep ahead of the pack and to perform advanced strategies. RPTA created its innovative Master Class programs to fill the void that is currently in the Fitness Industry, and to continue to improve us with education and experience.
Nutrition
Sports Science
Special Techniques
Body Sculpting
Elite Training
Exercise Programming
Fitness Business
Psychology