01/04/2025

Hone in on women’s health with the latest CPD

As World Health Day approaches on 7 April, we’ve taken inspiration from this years’ focus on maternal and newborn health to showcase learning opportunities to help you build your skillset in this area.

Explore the latest selection of courses and endorsed qualifications on women’s health to elevate your offering and nurture your professional portfolio. By choosing to focus on your Continued Professional Development, you’ll be contributing towards maintaining and enhancing your professional status.

CPD

NETBALLHer module series

This series of women’s health focused courses offers insight and advice on maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle at each stage of a woman’s reproductive life.

Courses to choose from:

  • The female body
  • Puberty
  • Pre and post natal
  • Menopause

Provider – NETBALLHer

CIMSPA CPD Points – 3.5 per module

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Pilates for Pregnancy

This course will help personal trainers and group exercise instructors to incorporate pregnancy-related mat work exercises in their current training.

What you’ll learn:

  • The stages and physiological changes of pregnancy
  • The benefits of exercise during pregnancy
  • Conditions that preclude a pregnant woman from exercising
  • Exercise modifications for different stages of pregnancy
  • Programming Pilates exercises for pregnant women in each trimester
  • Specific exercise contraindications for each trimester
  • The principles of Pilates breathing

Provider – FitPro

CIMSPA CPD Points – 2.5

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Exercise Strategy for Perimenopause to Post Menopause

Become armed with a solid knowledge base and practical toolkit to train clients to the highest standard during the menopause life stage. This course will help learners to gain a good understanding of the physiological changes and challenges the journey from perimenopause to post menopause brings, and exercise and recovery strategies to help clients to stay healthy, functional and thriving throughout it.

Provider – FitPro

CIMSPA CPD Points – 4

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Certificate in The Wellbeing and Health of Girls

This certification aims to create a ‘wholistic’ vision to support the lives of the women of the future. Focusing on girls’ health, this course covers all angles from the psychology, social and educational aspects, to nutrition, physiology and injury prevention.

Provider – Burrell Education Ltd

CIMSPA CPD Points – 10

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Remember - you can submit your CPD to your CIMSPA member profile to build your professional portfolio, showcase your professional status and earn your CPD points.

 

Discover your next CPD opportunity

Visit the CIMSPA Endorsed Training Directory for a comprehensive list of the CPD courses available to support you throughout your career in sport and physical activity.

Our directory is regularly updated and shows courses and providers that are CIMSPA accredited and meet our professional standards.

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Training Academy – discover the highest quality training and development opportunities with courses endorsed and mapped to our sector Professional Standards, provided by organisations that have achieved CIMSPA’s highest Quality Assurance outcomes.

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The Careers Hub – offering resources for anyone interested in pursuing or developing their career in the sport and physical activity sector.

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CIMSPA member webinars – keep informed and updated with knowledge and best practice from our esteemed guest presenters.

Exclusive to CIMSPA members, to watch previous webinars log in to your CIMSPA Member Portal and click ‘Member Benefits’, then ‘Member Webinars’.

Keep an eye on your emails to register for the next webinar and earn additional CPD points.

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FitPro* – over 95 accredited CPD courses available at a discounted rate to help elevate your career.

You can access FitPro via your portal. Log in and look under the ‘Member Benefits’ tab, then click ‘FitPro’ to get started.

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*Only eligible membership categories have free access to a FitPro Core membership. These are Practitioner membership categories: Personal Trainer, Gym Instructor, Group Exercise, Exercise Referral, Swimming Teach, Yoga Instructor Associate, Pilates Instructor Associate, Coach, Coaching Assistant and Senior Activity and Health Practitioner. Manager membership categories: Aspiring Manager, Entry Manager, General Manager, Senior Manager.

Our strategy

Individual and collective professional recognition for the sport and physical activity workforce.