This course provides participants with essential knowledge and practical skills to optimise nutrition for athletes.
You’ll learn to differentiate between effective and harmful substances in supplements, design hydration strategies for training and competition, and apply key concepts of body composition to improve performance.
The course covers nutrition for recovery and training adaptation, seasonal and weekly meal planning, and the science of nutrition periodisation. You’ll also explore personalising nutrition for team sports and applying cutting-edge research to match-day preparation, ensuring athletes perform at their best while minimising risks associated with supplement use.
Fees
COURSE OUTLINES
Syllabus:
1: Food and athletic performance.
2: Supplementation and ergogenic aids in sports.
3: Sports Hydration.
4: Body composition, somatotype and athletic performance.
5: Advanced sports nutrition.
6: Nutrition, recovery and training adaptation.
7: Match day preparation and personalised nutrition.
8: Periodised nutrition.
Learn to:
• Differentiate effective and non-effective or dangerous substances in the formulations of nutritional supplements in order to use them optimally.
• Utilize your knowledge of sports nutrition, based on the demands and needs of different forms of physical activity.
• Design safe hydration strategies for before, during and after training and competitions.
• Create practical applications of the key concepts of body composition and somatotype within nutrition and for physical performance.
• Improve athletes’ behaviour through sports nutrition.
• Implement supplements in daily practice.
• Minimise the risk of supplement use.
• Optimise acute recovery and training adaptation with nutrition.
• Plan nutrition for a season as well as a week.
• Understand the theoretical basis for nutrition periodisation.
• Apply personalisation in team sports nutrition.
• Apply the latest science around on match day preparation.
COURSE DETAILS
Duration: 8 months.
Average dedication: 6/8 weekly hours.
Delivered in: English.
Aimed at:
• Professionals of health sciences related to sports.
• Students and graduates of programs and careers related to sports, health and fitness.
• Elite athletes (professional or amateur).
PREREQUISITES
A good understanding of nutrition and football would be beneficial.