Sports Nutrition is a course on the nutrional needs for athletes and sports people. It is designed for people sports counsellors, personal trainers and Nutrition Consultants. Sports people often have special dietary needs to help them fulfil their athletic potential
There are 9 lessons as follows:
- Introduction to Human and Sports Nutrition
- Energy
- Energy in the Athlete’s Body
- The Training Diet
- The Competition Diet
- Fluids
- The Athlete’s Body Composition
- Weight Management
- Training for Size and the Use of Sports Supplements
On successful completion of the course you should be able to do the following:
- To have a basic grounding in human nutrition as it relates to sport.
- Understand energy and how energy is produced in the body.
- Explain how energy is utilised in the human body.
- Understand the characteristics of, and to be able to design an effective training diet.
- Design a diet for an athlete.
- Understand the principles of and be able to design an athletic diet for the days leading up to, during and after a competition.
- Explain the importance of fluids in an athletic diet.
- Define the body composition of an athlete, and to become aware of the methods of measuring body composition.
- To examine effective methods for weight reduction and body fat control where they are deemed necessary.
- Examine methods of increasing muscle mass and to assess the use of sports supplements.
