The Transforming a Generation (TAG) initiative will set up 30 centres across the UK to offer young people not in education, employment and training a place on a course as a health and fitness instructor.
The six-month course includes a four-month work placement and training in "workplace behaviour" and communication skills. A mentor is assigned to each student.
The first centre has launched in Haringey with the rest opening throughout the year. The initiative has been funded through £11m made available through the government's Future Job Fund money.
Fred Turok, the chair of health and fitness industry trade body the Fitness Industry Association, which set up the TAG scheme, said: "What TAG has done is taken a government funded initiative, worked with potential employers to develop a training model which meets their needs and created a young people centric programme which helps them take that giant step from disenfranchised unemployment to a fulfilling, rewarding career in an industry which is primed for expansion."
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