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Certificate Course in Sports Nutrition

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  • Understand the principles behind creating nutrition plans for sport and exercise professionals
  • Gain knowledge on nutrition strategies to support various types of sports
  • Learn to handle practical challenges faced in the sport and exercise nutrition field
  • Apply sports nutrition principles to enhance performance of your clients

₹5,000*

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

FAQs

  • I am an MBBS/BAMS/BUMS/BHMS student. Will this course benefit me?
    • You will definitely benefit from this course. While doing your medical course, you will learn about ECG in physiology and under many internal medicine topics in your third and final year. ECG as a structured and detailed course is usually not covered in the medical curriculum at undergraduate level. However, it is an essential skill required when you begin practice. This course is a structured and detailed course on ECG interpretation that will make you knowledgeable and skilled in ECG analysis, which will greatly benefit when you start your internship/clinical practice.
  • What is the total duration of the course?
    • You are given 1 month duration to complete it. However, if you spend enough time on the learning materials and clear the assessments, you can finish the course at a faster rate and get the certification.
  • Nutritionists, Coaches, Doctors (all streams), Physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals interested in Sports Nutrition.
  • Hands-on training means training in an environment that permits each student to have experience performing tasks, making decisions, or using equipment appropriate to the job assignment for which the training is being conducted. The student assigned for these programs will be observing all procedures performed by the consultant and depending on the student’s abilities and skill set displayed at the hospital, he/she will get to assist the consultant.
  • How to access the course material online?
    • After your enrolment is confirmed, you will be given login credentials to the Medvarsity Learning Portal.
      In case you don’t have access to login ID and password after enrolment, write to us at support@medvarsity.com. & quote your registered email ID.
  • What If I am unable to open/access the course?
    • For any queries or any technical assistance, please call on our toll free number (1800-103-6006) or write to us at support@medvarsity.com.. The matter will be looked into at the earliest.
  • How will the assessments be for course?
    • All assessments will be based on online tests.
  • What if I am not able to clear the final test in each level in the first attempt?
    • You will be given three attempts to clear the tests. If you are not able to clear the final test for the Level in three attempts, you will have to pay re-activation fees. Contact Toll free (1800-103-6006) or write to us at support@medvarsity.com.
  • What if I feel that a question is wrongly framed or an answer is wrongly marked in the online exams?
    • If you feel that something is wrongly mentioned, you can write at support@medvarsity.com, directing it to the academics team.
  • What certification will I get at the end of the course?
    • Certificate Course in Sports Nutrition.
  • When will I get my certificate?
    • Once you successfully pass each Level, your E-Certificate will be generated in the Learning management system.
  • International Students before enrolling can contact the student support team by writing to support@medvarsity.com or call Toll free# 1800-103-6006.
  • International Students should do fee payment in their local currency.
  • What if I have any concerns regarding the program delivery or what if I have any suggestions to improve the quality of the course?

Next Batch Start Date 23rd Jan 2023

Course Duration

3 Months

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