They're basically a SCAM. I paid £1000 for three courses in March 2025, and I finished all the course workbooks by July 2025, but they're still marking my first course workbook (the Level 2 Gym instructor workbook). They take ages to mark the courses, and the markers clearly just skim through the answers, providing generic comments. You need 100% to pass each course, so there will be loads of back and forth. Even though I only had two multiple-choice questions wrong and one written answer incorrect, it's been over six months of back-and-forth email discussions, and I haven't even had my first course workbook marked. Unfortunately, I paid them upfront. If you need your courses done any time soon, avoid PT Academy courses: the markers take forever to do anything and don't care. You'll get quick responses to emails or calls, but the marking will take forever.
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About PT Academy:
PT Academy was founded in 2009 based upon our perception of what we believed the industry needed at the time. We introduced a nationwide "mentor" based system where learners would be taught and mentored by active personal trainers and fitness professionals. 10 years on and having partnered with several health club chains - Personal Trainer Academy is now the largest and fastest growing fitness education company in the UK. Recognised as the UK's leading fitness and personal training course providers, we have the largest number of assessment centres and venues than any other UK training provider. We are the first education company to use active trainers as mentors, assessors and tutors of our courses.
We are committed to raising standards throughout the health and fitness industry by innovating learning methods, competitive prices and high quality graduates. Our innovative approach led to a prestigious award earlier this year from the Institute of Directors - an independent organisation with a royal chart
PT Academy was, and still is, the only fitness education company to use active personal trainers as part of its expert delivery team. From the beginning, our philosophy has always been that our students learn best from qualified personal trainers. Personal trainers know exactly what it takes to grow a successful personal training business as they’ve done it themselves. This firm belief has resulted in the development of our flagship learning method, the Flexi-Learner programme, where students are assigned an active personal trainer in their local region who guides them through their Level 2 and 3 personal trainer qualifications.
The success of the Flexi-Learner method has meant that in just a few years our team has expanded. We now have over 200 active trainers across the UK and the highest number of assessment centres, making PT Academy the largest fitness education provider in the UK.
PT Academy is committed to giving people of all backgrounds the opportunity to become a qualified personal trainer through our competitive pricing and innovative learning methods. In doing this we’re producing high-quality graduates for the health and fitness industry.
Our qualifications are OFQUAL regulated and certificated by NCFE, Focus Awards, 1st4Sport and VTCT awarding organisations. This ensures full recognition from employers, the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) and CIMSPA.
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