Courses

Coordinating nutrition with exercise dramatically improves exercise benefits such as weight loss, health (including immune strength), and fitness. In this course, we will examine how nutrition for performance addresses delaying fatigue, driving adaptation, and speeding recovery. Delaying fatigue requires hydration and fuel supply, and speeding recovery demands a broad spectrum of targeted nutrients. Adaptation (the body’s ability to improve through changes in gene expression) is also highly influenced by nutrition. For example, both protein and carbohydrate refueling soon after exercise are critical to stimulating our DNA to initiate muscle healing, and both unsaturated fats and antioxidants in recovery meals are critical to increasing fat burning and therefore endurance. This course will review the science of sports nutrition and will guide you in applying this information to your own sports nutrition program. The important foundations of your program are separated into what you are consuming during and right after exercise (calories, fluids, electrolytes) and throughout the rest of your day (meals, snacks, hydration). By covering both theory and application, the course will be equally relevant to those interested in the science and those wanting to improve their exercise results.