Sport and Fitness at Glasgow Kelvin College is all about getting active, building confidence, and developing real skills for the industry. Whether you're interested in coaching, fitness training, or progressing into further study, our courses are designed to help you take the next step.
You’ll learn through a mix of practical sessions and classroom learning, making full use of our gyms, studios, and sports facilities across our campuses. From developing your own fitness to gaining an understanding of coaching, performance, and health, the focus is on learning by doing.
Courses are available from entry level through to HND, giving you clear progression opportunities as you develop your skills.
You’ll also have the chance to take part in work placements and engage with community and industry partners, helping you gain real experience and build an understanding of the sector.
Sport at Kelvin | From Training to Competition 💪⚽🎿🏹
Discover what it’s like to study Sport and Outdoor Adventure at Glasgow Kelvin College through real student experiences.
From Seva’s journey into sport and competing in gymnastics, to students building their own career paths in fitness and coaching, this is where passion turns into progression.
Outdoors, our students are putting skills into action — from ski training ahead of trips to the Alps, to developing coaching and archery skills with Stephen as he prepares for competition.
Different paths. One starting point.
Hi I'm Ryan, I'm one of the fitness lecturers at the college.
I'm going to talk you through the different courses that we offer.
We offer a level 4, 5 and 6 and then a HN.
The fitness course will cover a variety of different things including anatomy, nutrition and planning and programming of exercise.
So this is our main gym area at Kelvin. We've got a variety of functional and free weight exercises. We've got our spin bikes and then our studio space.
We're currently set up for a group exercise session that the students will be running with a variety of different people across the college.
Course applications for all levels are open now. Head to our website to apply.
Jess: Hi, my name's Jess.
Sfyan: I'm Sfyan.
James: James.
William: William.
Chloe: I'm Chloe.
Seva: My name's Seva.
Morgan: My name's Morgan.
Sfyan: I go to Kelvin College to do sports, fitness and exercise.
Jess: I'm sports coaching.
James: Sports and fitness.
William: Sport and fitness.
Morgan: Sports course.
Chloe: Sports coaching.
Jess: I love working with all different types of people, learning in different environments, and really just having a good time.
Sfyan: I come here because I have a dream of fitness. I want to be a bodybuilder.
James: I'm learning new things all the time about fitness, which I've wanted to do in my full life.
Helping others get fit is something I've always wanted to do.
William: I like doing anatomy because it's good to know what's going on in your body and also I like getting to connect with others.
It's good for your career to learn from other people.
Seva: Teachers are very nice and supportive and knowledgeable.
Sfyan: I want to make sure that I pursue my dream of personal training. I've got a dream of changing people's lives.
Jess: Giving other people that chance to learn is really something I want to do.
My name is Seva and I study a level four Sport and Fitness course in Kelvin College.
I really enjoy how this course has both practical and theoretical aspects and teachers are very nice and supportive and knowledgeable.
Outside of college, I also do professional gymnastics taking part in different competitions. For example, now I'm preparing for Scottish Championships. I started when I was five.
All experience and knowledge that I get from this course also helps me with my gymnastics.
Next year I'm going to do fitness instructor and personal training course, which is new to this college. I'm really looking forward to it.
I'm originally from Ukraine, and I have done ESOL course here, and I was really enjoying it, and because of this, I decided to continue studying in Kelvin College. ESOL course really helped me with my English, so now I can study fitness and sport here.
Hi I'm Sarah and I do the outdoor adventure course.
Today we're going to be skiing. It's really good because we get to try skiing before we go to France.
When you're skiing you work on your like pizza and like carving so when you like want to slow down you put your skis closer together at the front.
When you're carving it's like skis are closer together and you like tilt your hips and try and keep your body as straight as possible.
Right you can come up the slope with me.
Oh no I'm gonna miss one.
Right on we go up to the top. I'm going. Bye guys.
And turn. Up. And turn. Up. Don't hit Adam
Snowboarders spend half their time on the floor.
That was fun.
Hi, my name is Stephen. I'm currently doing the HN Adventure Sports Coaching and Developing course.
It's been great. It's given me a real chance to learn how to better my coaching skills through various activities such as archery. I've been involved in archery. I've done it bits and pieces when I was little but really started getting into October 2023 and I've stuck with it.
After COVID a lot of our scout leaders who had permits decided to take that sort of chance to take a step back and we were left pretty bare in terms of what we could offer the kids.
I initially thought archery was something I could lead. I thought I need to be good at this before I lead this. The intention was only to really do it for a short period of time but I've really enjoyed it so I've stuck with it.
I'm a scout leader and we take the kids away doing various outdoor activities which is partly what got me interested in the course.
Running archery sessions as well is something that I really enjoy doing. I think it's really beneficial for the young people and adults.
The thing that interests me most about taking part in the Scottish student archery competition is that it gives me a chance to, for my own personal progression, take things to the next level for me.
When I was 18, there wasn't these kind of opportunities. I'm not the most athletic individual. It's good to have that opportunity this time round. I think being asked to represent the college feels great. It's always nice when someone thinks you're good enough to take part in these kind of things. So I'm going to try my best and see how I get on
