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The Importance of Mental Health Awareness for Personal Trainers
James Luscombe Updated October 13, 2025
The Importance of Mental Health Awareness for Personal Trainers
When someone trains as a personal trainer there are some obvious elements included within the training such as how to build muscle, how to increase fitness, how to manage weight...
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Funding your course with an Advanced Learner Loan
James Luscombe Updated October 24, 2021
Funding your course with an Advanced Learner Loan
This blog discusses how the Advanced Learner Loan can help you fund your fitness qualification without paying upfront costs. It covers who is eligible, how the loan works and what...
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We Asked a Fitness Professional: What is the Difference Between a Gym Instructor and a Personal Trainer? (2026 UPDATE)
James Luscombe Updated June 15, 2026
We Asked a Fitness Professional: What is the Difference Between a Gym Instructor and a Personal Trainer? (2026 UPDATE)
If you have ever wondered what the difference between a gym instructor and a personal trainer is, this blog is for you. It explains the key differences between the two...
What Nutrition Advice Should a Personal Trainer be Giving?
James Luscombe Updated October 13, 2025
What Nutrition Advice Should a Personal Trainer be Giving?
For information on this blog please visit: https://studyactive.co.uk/blogs/news/giving-nutritional-advice-as-a-personal-trainer-a-simple-guide
What is a GP Referral Scheme?
James Luscombe Updated October 13, 2025
What is a GP Referral Scheme?
How a GP Referral scheme works Most doctors’ surgeries will be involved in the GP Exercise Referral scheme whereby funding exists to refer certain patients with common medical conditions such...
Why personal trainers with a Level 3 or Level 4 nutrition qualification should not be writing meal plans or providing non-generic or specialist advice - Study Active - Personal Trainer Courses
James Luscombe Updated June 11, 2026
Can Personal Trainers Write Meal Plans? Understanding the Limits of Level 3, 4 and 5 Nutrition Qualifications
Can personal trainers write meal plans with a Level 3, 4, or 5 nutrition qualification? The answer may surprise you. In this article, Study Active and the Association for Nutrition...
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Helping our heroes - Study Active - Personal Trainer Courses
James Luscombe Updated October 13, 2025
#DoingOurBit for the NHS
#DoingOurBit for the NHS! How #DoingOurBit helped the NHS to be "Fit 4 The Fight" against COVID19 during the pandemic. James Luscombe (MD of Study Active who are a founding...
Fitness education throughout COVID-19: How we have ensured additional benefits now and in the future for our students - Study Active - Personal Trainer Courses
James Luscombe Updated October 23, 2020
Fitness education throughout COVID-19: How we have ensured additional benefits now and in the future for our students
  James Luscombe with Craig Smith (CRS Editorial) The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on us all. In our collective time of need we focus more than ever on...
Preparing for Post-Covid relaunch - Study Active - Personal Trainer Courses
James Luscombe Updated October 13, 2025
Preparing for Post-Covid relaunch
Getting back to normal in the fitness world after lockdown and adhering to social distancing and safety measures... Preparing for Post-Covid relaunch 1.0.0.20
Making learning accessible via blended learning - Study Active - Personal Trainer Courses
James Luscombe Updated April 13, 2017
Making learning accessible via blended learning
Accessing training and education for today’s modern professional and/or family person can be a logistical nightmare. The desire is there, the willpower is there, the one thing missing is time...
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