This course offers you a targeted pathway to enhance your client’s outcomes with evidence-based nutrition coaching, or to improve your own personal nutrition.
Nutrition literacy is increasingly essential in today’s health and wellness landscape. This course equips you with practical, field-ready knowledge from the Australian Dietary Guidelines. From macronutrients to micronutrients, supplements and behaviour-change strategies, this content will help you support clients more effectively, drive better outcomes, and stay ahead of industry trends.
Whether you want to refine your services, integrate nutrition into your existing programs, or use this knowledge for your own eating habits, this qualification provides the tools and confidence to deliver credible, personalised guidance.
course Overview
In this course, you will learn:
- Fundamentals of nutrition
- Micronutrients
- Supplements and Bio-hacking
- Practical Application – Tools to Guide Healthier Choices
- Psychology of Eating & Behaviour Change Coaching
Why complete this course
This course gives you evidence-based nutrition knowledge aligned to Australian guidelines and practical coaching skills to assess intake and tailor plans for goals like weight loss or muscle gain.
It also enables you to expand services, create new revenue streams, and deliver measurable outcomes through mindfulness and behaviour-change coaching.
what is the course structure
This hybrid course combines online interactive videos, written content and interactive activities to guide your learning. Accessible through our Online Learning Portal, it includes quiz-style assessments to test your knowledge and application, with knowledge checks throughout, while video demonstrations provide clear explanations on how to apply each tool.
Topics Covered
Fundamentals of Nutrition
- Australian Dietary Guidelines
- The 5 Food Groups
- Macronutrients
Micronutrients
- Information on the role and daily requirements of Vitamins and Minerals
Supplements and Biohacking
- Information on common supplements
- Vitamin and mineral supplementation discussions
- Intro to the Bio-hacking concept including some examples.
Practical Application – Tools to Guide Healthier Choices
- Practical tools Personal Trainers can use to assist clients to improve their eating habits
- Tools and examples to show you how to analyse a client’s current intake, then adjust it for goals of weight loss or muscle gain.
- Resources that can be used and tailored to your clients’ goals
Psychology of Eating & Behaviour Change Coaching
- Emotional and habitual eating
- Coaching habits
- Mindful eating
- Social and cultural influences
- Goal setting and review frameworks
Pre-Requisites
There are no pre-requisites for this course.
The benefit of studying with AFA is you can bundle this course with a Fitness/PT Certificate our Certificate III & IV in Fitness and Pilates at a discounted rate!
Cost
The Applied Nutrition Course is $1,500rrp, however we are offering a EOFY Sale offer for $500 until 5pm, June 30th. Discounted bundle option also avaliable.
You can pay for the entire course Upfront or via Direct Debit. Our interest-free payment plans allow you to study from as little as $50 a week or $100 a fortnight and we only require a $100 deposit to secure your spot!
Course Access
This course is self-paced and students will have up to 6 months of course access. After enrolling on the course, students will receive their login details within 2-3 business days (unless requested otherwise).
The recommended course completion time frame is between 3-6 months, however as all content and assessments are on-demand, it can be completed quicker.
READY TO GET STARTED NOW?
Simply fill out the enrolment form and make payment (full upfront or deposit). From there, our Careers team will be in touch with the next steps.
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