Description
This training program offers a comprehensive overview of sports nutrition, covering bioenergetics, food and nutrition, ergogenic aids, and the impact of dietary strategies on athletic performance and recovery. It also delves into specialized topics such as hydration, body composition, supporting the immune system through nutrition, and personalized nutrition strategies for athletes.
960 € 480 €
START DATE
10/12/2025
Level
Advanced
Delivery mode
Online-based
Duration
8 months
Average dedication
6/8 weekly hours
Delivered in
English
Learn to
Dierentiate eective and non-eective 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 dierent 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 somatype within nutrition and for physical performance.
Improve athletes’ behaviour through sports nutrition.
Implement supplements in daily practice.
Minimise the risk of supplement use.
Optimize acute recovery and training adaptation with nutrition.
Plan nutrition for a season as well as a week.
Understand the theoretical basis for nutrition periodization.
Apply personalisation in team sports nutrition.
Apply the latest science around on match day preparation.
Experts Advisors:
Antonia Lizarraga
Asker Jeukendrup
Course Syllabus
Food and Athletic Performance
Module 1: Bioenergetics
Module 2: Food and Nutrition
Module 3: Applied Sports Nutrition
Module 4: Integrative Reading
Supplementation and Ergogenic Aids in Sports
Module 1: Introductory Concepts
Module 2: Sports Foods
Module 3: Ergogenic Aids
Module 4: Integrative Reading
Sports Hydration
Module 1: Introductory Concepts
Module 2: Dehydration, Hyperthermia and Performance Loss: Traditional Approach
Module 3: Evidence-Based Hydration: A Contemporary Approach
Module 4: Integrative Module
Body Composition, Somatotype and Athletic Performance
Module 1: Body Composition
Module 2: Body Composition, Athletic Performance and Nutrition
Module 3: Somatotype
Module 4: Integrative Module
Advanced Sports Nutrition
Module 1: The history and future of sports nutrition
Module 2: What it takes to be effective in sports nutrition
Module 3: Supplements versus foods
Module 4: Immune system
Nutrition, Recovery and Training Adaptations
Module 1: Exercise and fatigue
Module 2: Recovery and adaptation
Module 3: Optimising recovery and adaptation
Module 4: Recovery from injury
Match Day Preparation and Personalized Nutrition
Module 1: Personalised nutrition?
Module 2: Preparing for match day
Module 3: Extreme conditions
Module 4: Supplements
Periodized Nutrition
Module 1: The theory
Module 2: Training the gut
Module 3: Training low
Module 4: From theory to practice
