Level 4 Diabetes Control & Weight Management

Completing our Level 4 course will allow you to provide training programmes and nutritional advice for clients living with both Type-1 and Type-2 diabetes. Your knowledge and understanding of which will be developed through modules such as:

Comprehending Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes

This will teach you the history and biology of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. You’ll also learn the causes, symptoms associated, and the potential long-term effects on health and fitness.

Measurement and Assessment of Diabetes

This module will go through each stage of measuring and evaluating diabetes in your clients. This will include:

• Electing the best and most appropriate method of assessment
• How to analyse and interpret the results 
• How to then implement an effective plan of action

You’ll also learn how these varying degrees affect other variables such as weight and hormonal imbalance. 

Treating & Managing Diabetes 

Before designing a suitable exercise programme for clients you’ll learn about the benefits and extra precautions needed to design them safely for this demographic. 

You’ll also study which treatments and exercises are the most effective for those with diabetes and which ones have a higher risk. This will include learning when the best time to introduce an appropriate fitness programme for these clients. 

Design and Deliver Weight Loss Plans

Factoring in clinical issues caused by diabetes, you’ll learn how to write and deliver fitness plans for individuals and groups that are fun and engaging as well as effective for helping to manage weight.

Understanding Long Term Behaviour

You’ll learn about the long term psychological effects diabetes and weight management can have on clients. Understanding how you can help them with associated mental health issues in order to live a healthier lifestyle.

How You’ll Be Assessed

To complete the Level 4 online diabetes diploma, all modules have either an open book, multiple choice assessment or a detailed case study assignment to be submitted online. There are no practical assessments for this course. 

All of these case studies will be issued to you and are based off real scenarios where you’ll have to:

• Create pre-exercise regimes, programme objectives, and an eight week exercise programme based around the client’s medical history, health screening, and physical activity level
• Design a healthy eating schedule informed by the client’s existing dietary requirements and eating habits 
• Create post-exercise plans which evaluate the programme and the client’s performance, developing modifications for future regimes

Study Options

OriGym’s Level 4 Diabetes Certificate is entirely online and taught via our award nominated learning platform “Student Zone”. This means you can fit the qualification around any existing commitments and complete the course at a pace of your choosing. 

You’ll learn using a range of innovative resources including custom made video content, lectures, and a library of exercises and eBooks. 

There’s also 7 day support from our team of tutors who are all qualified with the Level 4 Diabetes and Weight Management course among many other fitness qualifications. 

Careers & Progression

Completing this qualification means you can upgrade your REPS membership to Level 4 status and advertise yourself as a specialist in exercise for diabetes and weight management. 

You can then work with those in the medical sector to support diabetic and overweight clients. Other career options include working in clinics, with insurance providers, and getting clients referred to you via their GPs and practitioners. 

Career Support

We pride ourselves on offering an extensive range of post-course support services. Upon graduating you will be able to receive:

• Free continued access to business and marketing modules on our learning platform
• Free career consultations
• CV analysis and distribution 
• Interview preparation and mock interviews with our team of fitness professionals
• Guaranteed interviews with our corporate partners such as Virgin Active and Sports Direct Fitness
• Exclusive access to our jobs board with over 9,000 live fitness positions that OriGym graduates get first access to

Progression Routes

When you complete OriGym’s Level 4 diabetes course online, you can then look into pursuing other specialist qualifications. This includes our Level 4 Nutrition course or Level 4 Obesity and Weight Loss course both of which will allow you to further specialise in weight management.

Whichever route you take we can support you by enhancing your career prospects and increasing your level of expertise to earn some of the highest salaries in the fitness industry!