Nearly finished Certificate IV

As you can see I haven't posted anything on my blog for a few months! This is because I have been studying three nights a week and some Saturday's at Randwick TAFE completing my Certificate IV in Fitness (Personal Training).

It has been such a busy, hectic, stressful and also a wonderful learning experience that I am glad is nearly over. We have covered so many areas from psychology, law, business skills to olympic weight lifting in the gym as part of our assessment, advanced programming, metabolism, biomechanics (levers), programming for seniors, children and special populations and training clients twice a week.

I really enjoyed the psychology part of the course, we had a few Saturday sessions and I found that the personality testing was quite interesting, defnitely make me more aware of how I react to certain situations myself, and was able to work out what personality types some friends were and also family. This is a great tool and it does make you stop, stand back and realise that everyone you come across either at work or training them wil have different reaction and adapt to things at different levels.

Our assignments have been challenging and we have managed to get through those and also manage the exams which were a bit challenging at the start. The nerves settled and our class of 16 had gone down to 6 people. Amazing how many people drop out along the way.

I finish next Thursday 29th November. Final exam is Law, open book. We have our reflective journal presentation on Monday where we have to discuss our training programme to the class showing our goals and if we achieved them the process that we took. This has been quite an involved assignment and I am very pleased with the results (as I have lost 5kgs and 14cm off my hips) but I have also learnt that no matter what is thrown at you in life you CAN achieve the goals you want.

Bring on end of TAFE and to a new beginning of educating people on health and fitness and making other peoples goals come true.