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Level 4 Coaching Body Transformations Course

More than a PT - Become a leading transformation coach with our world-class body transformation coaching course

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The world’s foremost body transformation coaching course.

Master the nutrition, training and lifestyle strategies needed to deliver evidence-based body transformation services to clients.

  • Time to qualify:

    12-16 weeks

  • Entry requirements:

    Level 3 personal training

  • Course style:

    online

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Course overview: body transformation course

Discover how to deliver safe and effective body transformations that are aligned with the evidence-base, and which support your client’s health, fitness, physique, and wellbeing goals with our leading body transformation coaching course.

If you’re a personal trainer looking to become a specialist body transformation coach so that you can help your clients to overhaul their diet, exercise and lifestyle to improve their physique and body composition, then this course is definitely for you.

This programme has been meticulously designed by a team of expert transformation coaches and educators with decades of experience providing physique-based coaching services to clients. The team also have lots of experience of working with elite-level strength, power, and other physique athletes, as well as regular clients also. Throughout the course, they will share with you practical ways to maximise your clients recomposition goals in a safe and health-promoting way.

This advanced body transformation course is delivered primarily online, with the ongoing support provided from our friendly and experienced team of learning support tutors. The course is split into 5 distinct modules (see below), and you will work your way through each of these modules using a combination of the training manuals, online lectures, and practical training videos. Throughout the course, there will be lots of opportunity to engage with your tutor, ask questions, and get support about specific subjects or tasks.

If you want to become an expert-level transformation coach that is committed to high standards of professionalism, client care, and ethical practices, then you’re in the right place.

  • Entry requirements

    This programme is specifically designed for qualified personal trainers looking to deliver specialist body transformation services to their clients. As such, you must hold, or be working towards, a Level 3 Diploma/Certificate in Personal Training (or equivalent).

    Those working towards their PT qualification will not be able to gain full body transformation certificate without providing evidence of a recognised personal training qualification. If you are completing this with us, you will not need to supply as we will already have a record of your achievement.

  • Accreditations

    On completion of this programme, you will gain a Level 4 Diploma in Coaching Body Transformations that is awarded by HFE.

    This course is an advanced-level CPD training programme that is fully endorsed by YMCA Awards and CIMSPA. On completion of this course, students will gain 10 CIMSPA CPD points which can then be used to meet the requirements of their annual CIMSPA membership.

    With dual endorsement from CIMSPA and YMCA Awards, students can be confident that their achievements will receive international recognition.

  • Learning materials

    On enrolment, you’ll receive all the materials you need to succeed, including comprehensive print and digital manuals, online classroom and practical videos, a study guide, online knowledge checks, and templates for all of your assessments. You’ll also receive the bonus meal plans and recipes, so you can hit the ground running with your clients once you qualify.

  • Career progression

    On completion of this advanced body transformation course, students will have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be able to work with clients in person, or online, providing specialised body transformation training and nutrition coaching. While this programme is highly specific to physique-based training, many of the principles can be applied to more performance-based training and nutrition strategies. As such, students may be interested in our sports nutrition courses or our strength and conditioning programmes.

Become a True Transformation Professional

Discover how to become a professional body transformation coach that delivers their services inline with the highest standards of professional practice. This transformation is evidence-based, delivered by industry experts, and tackles many of the controversial issues associated with poorly trained coaches head on.

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By nature, body transformation programmes do tend to attract attention from clients that for a range of reasons ought not to be undertaking a transformation programme. This may include those with signs and symptoms of an eating disorder, body image issues, mental health challenges, pregnancy, and/or other red flags. This programme will help you better understand how to identify clients for whom transformation services may not be appropriate, and what steps you should take to take to signpost or refer them to a more suitably trained professional.

Social media is awash with online coaches promoting body transformation services, often with little in the way of professional training or qualifications. Many of the practices used by these online coaches lack the necessary evidence and rigor to safeguard their client’s health and wellbeing.

If you want to become an expert-level transformation coach that is committed to high standards of professionalism, client care, and ethical practices, then you’re in the right place.

What you'll learn

To succeed as a body transformation coach, you will need to develop an expert-level of knowledge and skills on advanced nutrition, training and lifestyle strategies that will create optimal conditions for safe and effective physique-based results.

This course will explore everything you need to learn to master the dietary, training and lifestyle approaches tht are needed to optimise transformation and physique-based results. This transformation coaching course is split into the following 5 units and some of the content in each of these modules is listed below.

  • Principles of body transformations

    Professional practice and scope of practice
    Duties of a transformation coach
    Coaching clients online
    Bodybuilding versus transformations
    Image and performance-enhancing drugs
    Eating disorders, body image and transformations
    Transformation training strategies and approaches
    Transformation timescales
    Starting and delaying transformations – when to wait
    Realistic and unrealistic transformations

  • Optimum transformation training

    Muscle protein synthesis and hypertrophy
    Hormones and hypertrophy
    Metabolic effect of hypertrophy
    Hormonal effects of transformations
    Principles of transformation training methods
    Optimum transformation training approaches
    Split training approaches for maximal results
    Science of fat loss
    Training for fat loss – exercise and physical activity approaches
    Recovery, overreaching and overtraining

  • Nutrition science for transformations

    Metabolic needs of the human body
    Energy balance and body transformations
    Metabolic adaptations to prolonged dieting
    Transformation nutrition – protein
    Transformation nutrition – fat
    Transformation nutrition – carbohydrates
    Planning macros, including optimal splits
    Meal planning and prep strategies
    Tracking calories and macros for transformations
    Nutritional supplements for transformations

  • Testing and tracking transformations

    Screening and consulting with transformation clients
    Red flags and contraindications
    Postural assessments for transformations
    Anthropometric assessments
    Assessing body composition
    Taking and using progress pictures
    Progress reviews and check-ins

  • Programming body transformations

    Preparing clients for a body transformation
    Programming nutrition for transformations
    Adapting transformation programmes
    Diet breaks, refeeds, calorie shifting
    Implementing transformation training programmes
    Injury avoidance strategies
    Technology and transformation programmes
    Sleep, rest and recovery strategies
    Stress management and transformations
    Fluids and fluid balance

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Throughout the active leisure and wellbeing sector, we’re consdiered one of the highest-quality training providers in the business and we have a reputation for training excellence. We’re proud of our reputation, and we’ve worked extremely hard to achieve it.

We strive to keep the price of our training programmes as competetie as we can and we always provide flexible payment options for students.

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Free Transformation Tracker

Throughout this body transformation course, you will master the art and science of coaching safe, effective and sustainable body transformation programmes to your clients.  While you do this manually at first to master the skills, we will supply you with a FREE body transformation tracking template that will will allow you to automate many of aspects of your transformation coaching. With this template, you can automate:

  • Fat mass and fat free mass calculations
  • Daily caloric needs/targets
  • Minimum and maximum macro values
  • Rate of weekly weight/fat loss
  • Rate of weekly muscle gain/loss
  • Weekly progress reports
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Best in class support

Throughout the health, fitness, and wider wellbeing sector, we have a reputation for training excellence, which is why we’re the go-to training provider for many of the industry’s most forward-thinking operators.

Throughout this body transformation course, you will receive a high level of personalised support and guidance in-line with your specific needs. You’ll have your own dedicated tutor, who you can reach out to as and when you need them. They’ll also keep track of your progress also, ensuring that you continue to make good and regular progress.

When you choose to train with HFE, you really are in safe hands. We’re rated by CIMSPA as one of the highest quality providers in our sector and we hold CIMSPA’s highest ‘enhancing’ status for the quality standards of our training and education services.

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How you'll be assessed

Throughout this specialist body transformation coaching programme, you’ll complete a range of formal and informal assessments which are needed demonstrate that you have the necessary knowledge and skills to support clients on their transformation journey.

The knowledge-based assessments consist of a series of 5 comprehensive multiple-choice workbooks covering each module of the course, whereas, the practical and applied part of the programme is assessed via a client case-study. The case-study requires you to plan and implement a full transformation programme with a client, although if you're unable to find a client, then you will be able to use yourself as long as you implement the programme.

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Workbooks

  • Multiple choice/option
  • Completely online
  • 100% pass mark
  • Unlimited re-sits
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Case-study

  • Full transformation programme
  • Planned and implemented
  • Completed online
  • Use a real client or yourself

One transformation. Unlimited possibilities.

Join the thousands of HFE graduates that are actively working throughout the active leisure and wellbeing profession, including some of the most recgnisable brands and operators in the sector.

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Free bonus meal plans

Included as a standard feature in our advanced body transformation coaching course are over 300 healthy meal plans that will help to take the sting out of weekly meal planning and prep.

These meal plans are ready-to-go and include everything you need to start planning meals. They include a full shopping list, calorie, and macro splits, and they are even accompanied a MyFitnessPal barcode so your clients can more accurately and conveniently track their calories and macros. Each recipe is accompanied by a high-resolution image of the dish, along with preparation and cooking instructions on how to make the meal.

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Planning and coaching nutrition for a body transformation really couldn’t be easier. There are a wide-range of high-quality recipe packs to suite every client’s dietary needs and preferences, including:

  • 5-ingredient meal plans

  • Gluten-free recipe pack

  • High-protein power pack

  • Creative low-carb recipe pack

  • Smoothie recipe pack

  • Meat-free vegetarian selection

  • Extensive range of vegan recipes

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