Course completion
Foundations of Fitness Course:
Students can enrol into the course at any time and will have up to 3 months to complete. On completion of the Final Assessment, which is in the form of a multiple choice quiz, stduents will be issued with a Certificate of Completion. Note: this does not constitute an official Personal Trainer Qualification and if a student wishes to pursue the Certified Personal Trainer course upon completing the Foundations of Fitness course, they are welcome to complete a Course Upgrade form at a discounted rate.
If a student does not complete the course within the 3-month timeframe, they will need to pay the full cost again to re-enrol
Certified Personal Trainer Course:
Prior to enrolment in the qualification, you are required to complete a ‘pre-training review’ to ensure you have the capability to complete the course. The pre-training review will assess your comprehension and understanding of English and your IT capability.
The course is arranged to enable you to complete it in a 3 to 6-month timeframe. However, depending on the version of the qualification you are studying, you will have up to 6 months to complete the qualification (there are no minimum timeframes). Timeframes will be outlined at the point of enrolment. If the entire course has not been completed within the required timeframes, you can apply to extend or re-enrol for an additional fee. These fees will be communicated to you at the time of extension.
Australian Fitness Academy Asia will provide you with unlimited support to assist you in completing the qualification.
On completion of the full CPT qualification, you will be issued with two Certificates, the Certified Personal Trainer Certificate and the Group Fitness Instructor Certificate. At this point, you will have the skills and knowledge to be able to work as both a Personal Trainer and a Group Fitness Instructor.
Payment terms and conditions
Foundations of Fitness Course:
The full course cost of $250 is to be paid in full upon enrolling in the qualification.
Certified Personal Trainer Course:
The course fee for the CPT course is $650 USD, to be paid in full at the time of enrolment.
Additional fees will be incurred under the following conditions:
- If the qualification is not completed in the required timeframes, the student can apply to re-enrol for an additional cost (to be communicated at the time of the extension request)
- If a student needs to re-attempt the final exam for a 3rd time, there will be an additional fee (to be communicated at the time of the re-attempt request)
Refunds & withdrawals including deferment
Foundations of Fitness Course:
There is no Cooling-Off Period and no refunds available for any enrolments in this course. Once a student makes payment, they are liable for the full course fees.
Certified Personal Trainer Course:
There is a 7-day cooling-off period from the start date of the course. If you decide you no longer wish to complete the qualification, you can apply to withdraw. If you apply within the 7-day cooling-off period and return a completed Withdrawal Form, you will be refunded the fee paid less a $100 USD (or equivalent in local currency) administration fee.
There are no refunds after the 7-day cooling-off period and students will be liable for all remaining course fees after this point.
Students who do not complete the qualification after the required timeframe will be recorded as ‘fail’ and will be withdrawn from the course.
Students are unable to defer their course or transfer their enrolment to another person.
Integrity of assessment including plagiarism and cheating
AFA is committed to upholding standards of academic integrity and honesty. Plagiarism and cheating in any form is unacceptable and will be acted upon appropriately. Gaining or attempting to gain an accredited qualification through plagiarism, cheating or fraud is an extremely serious action and is considered as a crime.
Plagiarism: To take the ideas or comments of another person and present them as one’s own without providing appropriate acknowledgement. This includes material from any source, staff, students or the internet.
Cheating: To seek to obtain an unfair advantage in written or practical work required to be submitted or completed for assessment.
AFA staff and students both have a duty to ensure all students gain the necessary academic understanding to prevent incidents of plagiarism and cheating.
Exam Conditions: Students will be required to complete the Final Exam within a strict 3-hour timeframe and under other potential measures such as Safe Browser, limiting movement between web pages.
If an incidence of plagiarism or cheating is detected and the student is unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of the similarities between the student’s work and the original source document, the student may be withdrawn from the qualification and prevented from re-enrolling. Under these circumstances, students will not be eligible for a refund of fees.
Student Code of Behaviour
All students of AFA are expected to behave in a way that represents themselves and AFA Asia in
a professional manner whilst studying online and during practical placement.
All students are expected to:
- Observe all policies and procedures of AFA
- Act in a manner that does not bring AFA into disrepute.
- Not engage in behaviour which could be considered threatening, harassing, intimidating, discriminative, offensive, bullying or abusive in any way.
- Respect the privacy, rights and dignity of other students and AFA personnel.
- Communicate with other students and AFA personnel via appropriate channels and in a respectful, courteous and appropriate manner.
- Submit their own work.
- Refrain from creating, contributing or participating in communications related to their qualification (such as forum discussions, social media groups/pages and websites) that are not authorised by AFA.
- Use the online learner management system (LMS) appropriately, engaging in honest and respectful behaviour and communication.
Incidents of serious misconduct will amount to exclusion from your course. In this instance, no refund will be given and outstanding instalments on course fees will be payable.
first aid
AFA does not include first aid training in the course delivery. This enables us to concentrate purely on teaching you the fitness-related topics of our course. However, it is highly recommended that you complete the local accredited version of First Aid and CPR/AED training.
AFA recognises that the First Aid courses vary from country to country and therefore we encourage you to complete an accredited First Aid course with one of your local First Aid training providers.