Turn what you love into what you do
Become an industry-leading fitness professional with Active.AE
Globally recognised fitness industry qualifications
If you have a passion for health and fitness and you thrive on helping others, you’re well placed to start an exciting and rewarding career in the fitness industry.
Whether you want to become a personal training, nutrition coach, or a strength and conditioning expert, you’re guaranteed to find the perfect fitness industry qualification with Active AE.
All of our qualifications are developed by industry-leading experts and contain the very latest scientific research and practical training approaches.
Currently, our fitness industry qualifications are delivered exclusively online, either in an on-demand or virtual format, allowing you the freedom to learn in your own time and at your own pace.
Get your fitness career off to a flying start with Active AE.
What will you become?
We provide a wide variety of exercise and fitness training courses and qualifications in the active leisure sector. See our online training courses below.
Nutrition
Become an expert in the intricate world of nutrition and empower others with the knowledge to promote a healthier lifestyle and learn sustainable ways to improve their approach to food.
Personal Training
Educate, challenge and motivate your clients with our Level 2 and Level 3 Personal Training courses. Encourage them to reach beyond their physical and psychological barriers with your expert knowledge and support.
Strength and Conditioning
Become a skilled mentor in enhancing performance, improving function, preventing injury and maximizing strength with our in-depth strength and conditioning course.
Opportunities
...in the fitness industry
Working in fitness is no ordinary 9-5 embark on your journey to health and fitness coaching and turn your passion into a career. Choose your hours – enjoy freedom and flexibility – work on your own schedule.
As a health and fitness coach, you get to be your own boss, work with incredible people from all walks of life, and do something you truly love.
If you’re thinking of becoming a health and fitness professional in the UAE’s fitness industry, now is the time.
The fitness sector in the UAE is currently a bustling hub of innovation. Its fitness market is expected to reach over $600 million by 2025, growing at an annual rate of 10.9% and making it a prosperous environment for growth. Research shows that consumer awareness of exercise in the Middle East has increased rapidly, with more than 25% of the population taking part in physical activity 3 to 5 hours a week in 2021, compared to less than 15% in 2020.
The UAE government and health sector are focusing a huge amount of their efforts and resources on raising awareness of the importance of regular physical activity, in order to tackle the increasing health issues caused by sedentary lifestyles that is affecting the population. The growing awareness of sedentary lifestyles and their link to major health issues in the UAE are creating a higher demand for fitness and nutrition specialists now more than ever. By qualifying with Active.AE, you can help bring about monumental change to the UAE’s health and fitness industry, addressing the need for better nutrition and exercise education, and helping to create a more informed, more active and more inspired population.
...in the UAE
If you’re thinking of becoming a health and fitness professional in the UAE’s fitness industry, now is the time.
The fitness sector in the UAE is currently a bustling hub of innovation. Its fitness market is expected to reach over $600 million by 2025, growing at an annual rate of 10.9% and making it a prosperous environment for growth. Research shows that consumer awareness of exercise in the Middle East has increased rapidly, with more than 25% of the population taking part in physical activity 3 to 5 hours a week in 2021, compared to less than 15% in 2020.
The UAE government and health sector are focusing a huge amount of their efforts and resources on raising awareness of the importance of regular physical activity, in order to tackle the increasing health issues caused by sedentary lifestyles that is affecting the population. The growing awareness of sedentary lifestyles and their link to major health issues in the UAE are creating a higher demand for fitness and nutrition specialists now more than ever. By qualifying with Active.AE, you can help bring about monumental change to the UAE’s health and fitness industry, addressing the need for better nutrition and exercise education, and helping to create a more informed, more active and more inspired population.
See a list of areas to work within the UAE fitness sector below:
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Health clubs
Work in one of the UAE’s top-rated health clubs, offering your expert knowledge and support to club members with their fitness, performance and nutrition. Work independently as a self-employed coach or as part of a team, gaining experience in a health and fitness environment from your colleagues and meeting new potential clients every day.
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Boutique fitness studio
Boutique fitness studios have been thriving in the fitness sector in recent years. These are smaller gyms that focus on group exercises classes and one-to-one personal training. They will often specialise in a specific area of fitness and offer more personalised workout experiences. As a result, these gyms are perfect for offering specialised services for clients with specific health and fitness goals.
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Online coaching
Set up your own business as an online health coach and work to your own schedule. Provide one-to-one sessions, nutritional guidance, workout plans and ongoing support to members of your community. Online coaches work alongside their clients, conducting regular check-ins, tracking client progress and offering regular feedback and support.
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Mobile personal training
Being a mobile personal trainer means travelling to your clients and guiding them through their exercise plans in the comfort of their home, or garden, or even their local park. It allows you the freedom of working around yours and you clients’ lifestyles and makes personal training accessible to those who don’t want to sign up to a gym.
Why Active.AE?
Why Active.AE?
Active.AE powered by HFE is the world’s leading training provider of specialist fitness industry qualifications. Our focus is on delivering the most advanced and up-to-date education programmes in the health, fitness, and wellbeing space. We believe that the more we learn, the more we grow – which is why providing the best quality education is non-negotiable.
We prioritise the quality of our courses and the standard of our content over everything else. We encourage our students to exceed their goals, because we believe that with the right support, there are no limitations on what you can achieve. This is why we have the most helpful and committed team of support tutors, equipped with the knowledge and expertise to get you to exactly where you need to be and beyond.
We seek to raise standards in the health and fitness industry and we are driven by this goal to deliver services that are above and beyond expectations. Our courses facilitate growth, ambition and top tier knowledge that empowers our students to become the greatest health and fitness tutors in the industry.
Powered by HFE
HFE are the industry’s leading provider of health and fitness qualifications, leading the way with their pioneering fitness and nutrition courses. Their content is designed to empower students with the knowledge to excel in their careers and invigorate their passion for fitness. World-renowned for the quality of their course content, HFE are key players in raising the bar for the health and fitness industry.
Join us in our mission to provide the best health and fitness coaching education across the globe and make a name for yourself in the UAE’s thriving health and fitness industry.
Awarding bodies
All of our programmes are certified by Active IQ, global leaders in fitness industry qualifications. What’s more, these courses are also fully endorsed by the Register of Exercise Professionals UAE (REPS UAE), giving complete confidence that your achievements will be recognised wherever you go. For those looking to take their qualifications beyond the UAE, these programmes are also recognised IC REPS, providing international portability and complete peace of mind that you can practice as a fitness professional anywhere in the world.
