Course Description
Nutrition is an essential element needed for optimizing athletic performance. Sports nutrition is the field of nutrition and dietetics that concerns with improving sport and exercise performance. A well-designed nutritional plan is essential to help active adults and athletes to perform at their best. The primary goal of such diet plans is to help sportspersons intake the correct type and amount of food, energy, nutrients, and fluids to keep functioning at peak levels. Sports nutrition is unique to each individual and needs to be planned according to their personal goals. A sports nutrition diet may change depending on specific energy demands and training schedules.
The certificate course in Sports Nutrition will provide coverage to the principles underlying diet planning for exercise and sports. The topics covered in this course will help athletes and coaches to understand what kind of diet is needed to optimize their performance for sports and exercise. This includes the selection of the right balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats to provide energy and build or maintain muscles, designing diet plans, and use of nutritional supplements. The learning modules will provide the knowledge of nutritional requirements for sports and the current theories on the relationships between diet and performance in sports, exercise, and health.
What you will learn?
1. Introduction to sports nutrition
2. Energy metabolism in health and sports
3. Carbohydrate nutrition for sports
4. Lipid nutrition for sports
5. Proteins nutrition for sports
6. Micronutrients in sports
7. Fluid and electrolyte balance during exercise and sports
8. Designing diets for athletes
• Evaluation of nutrition in an athlete
• Training diet
• Competition diet
• Weight management
• Meal planning
• Portion sizes
• Healthy and unhealthy foods
9. Special populations
• Women
• Children
• Vegetarian
• Elderly
10. Nutritional disorders in athletes
• Anorexia nervosa
• Anorexia athletica
• Bulimia
11. Sports supplement and ergogenic aids
12. Event-based sports nutrition
13. Bodybuilding nutrition
Course Eligibility: Nutritionists, Coaches, Doctors (all streams), Physiotherapists, and other healthcare professionals interested in Sports Nutrition.
Course validity: 4 months. There will be an extra charge for the extension of the course validity.
Certification: On successfully completing all the learning you will receive: Certificate in Sports Nutrition
Course Description
Nutrition is an essential element needed for optimizing athletic performance. Sports nutrition is the field of nutrition and dietetics that concerns with improving sport and exercise performance. A well-designed nutritional plan is essential to help active adults and athletes to perform at their best. The primary goal of such diet plans is to help sportspersons intake the correct type and amount of food, energy, nutrients, and fluids to keep functioning at peak levels. Sports nutrition is unique to each individual and needs to be planned according to their personal goals. A sports nutrition diet may change depending on specific energy demands and training schedules.
The certificate course in Sports Nutrition will provide coverage to the principles underlying diet planning for exercise and sports. The topics covered in this course will help athletes and coaches to understand what kind of diet is needed to optimize their performance for sports and exercise. This includes the selection of the right balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats to provide energy and build or maintain muscles, designing diet plans, and use of nutritional supplements. The learning modules will provide the knowledge of nutritional requirements for sports and the current theories on the relationships between diet and performance in sports, exercise, and health.
What you will learn?
1. Introduction to sports nutrition
2. Energy metabolism in health and sports
3. Carbohydrate nutrition for sports
4. Lipid nutrition for sports
5. Proteins nutrition for sports
6. Micronutrients in sports
7. Fluid and electrolyte balance during exercise and sports
8. Designing diets for athletes
• Evaluation of nutrition in an athlete
• Training diet
• Competition diet
• Weight management
• Meal planning
• Portion sizes
• Healthy and unhealthy foods
9. Special populations
• Women
• Children
• Vegetarian
• Elderly
10. Nutritional disorders in athletes
• Anorexia nervosa
• Anorexia athletica
• Bulimia
11. Sports supplement and ergogenic aids
12. Event-based sports nutrition
13. Bodybuilding nutrition
Course Eligibility: Nutritionists, Coaches, Doctors (all streams), Physiotherapists, and other healthcare professionals interested in Sports Nutrition.
Course validity: 4 months. There will be an extra charge for the extension of the course validity.
Certification: On successfully completing all the learning you will receive: Certificate in Sports Nutrition