Personal Trainer's Toolkit: Providing Nutritional Advice to Your Clients

Provide nutritional advice to clients within your scope of practice.

As a fitness professional, your clients may expect guidance on nutrition as part of their fitness journey with you, but giving nutritional advice is complicated and often reserved for those with relevant qualifications.

On this two-week course, you’ll learn the skills and knowledge required to encourage your clients to make healthy choices, but also to recognise when this advice goes beyond your remit as a personal trainer.

You’ll learn how to identify the dangers of providing food advice in a fitness setting, and how to support your clients in getting the assistance they need.

Identify trustworthy information sources for fitness and nutrition

You’ll learn how to recognise appropriate information sources to ensure you are giving your clients reputable guidance on nutrition.

You’ll also be able to identify at what point giving nutritional advice becomes unethical and outside of your capacity, and the steps you can take to help refer your client to an accredited professional.

Gain knowledge from specialists at the CQUniversity

By the end of the course, you’ll feel confident in knowing your boundaries as a fitness professional when giving nutritional advice to your clients.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with project-based learning from CQUniversity, and feel equipped with the skills to provide responsible and effective advice and nutrition plans.

On completion of this course you will be able to:

Understand your scope of practice in providing nutritional advice to clients Identify referral pathways to accredited professionals for nutritional advice for clients Recognise appropriate sources for nutritional advice to provide to clients.

This course will suit you if you’re a non-medical professional looking to upskill in the areas of nutrition and fitness. It will be particularly useful if you are an existing personal trainer or fitness leader.

If you want to explore this subject further, you may be interested in these courses, from the same provider, that share the same overall learning outcomes:

• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Client Onboarding and Fitness Testing
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Build an Outdoor Fitness Business
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Mental Health First Aid for Fitness Trainers
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Developing Fitness Programs for Older People
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Build a Health and Fitness Business Network
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Setting
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Building a Fitness Community, Client Retention for Trainers

This course will suit you if you’re a non-medical professional looking to upskill in the areas of nutrition and fitness. It will be particularly useful if you are an existing personal trainer or fitness leader.

If you want to explore this subject further, you may be interested in these courses, from the same provider, that share the same overall learning outcomes:

• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Client Onboarding and Fitness Testing
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Build an Outdoor Fitness Business
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Mental Health First Aid for Fitness Trainers
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Developing Fitness Programs for Older People
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Build a Health and Fitness Business Network
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Workplace Health and Safety in a Fitness Setting
• Personal Trainer’s Toolkit: Building a Fitness Community, Client Retention for Trainers

• Explain your scope of practice in providing nutritional advice to clients.
• Identify referral pathways to accredited professionals for nutritional advice for clients.
• Identify appropriate sources for nutritional advice to provide to clients.