Sports Nutrition

This workshop seeks to provide a foundation understanding of sports nutrition and explores how nutrition influences energy, recovery, health, wellbeing and performance. With a specific focus on the role nutrition plays in elite sport the workshop considers the impact of nutrition on our day-to-day life, our performance and body function.

Topics include:

• Key components of sports nutrition
• How nutrition affects energy, recovery and well-being
• An understanding of energy balance; how to ensure we have enough energy to perform at our peak and the associated risks of having too much or too little energy
• Macronutrients and their key roles
• The role of fluid and hydration

This workshop is tailored for students of all levels.

This workshop seeks to highlight the good, the bad and the downright dangerous in the way that supplements are used in elite sport. With a specific focus on how supplements are used to support sports nutrition and the beneficial impact supplements can have in supporting our health, performance and productivity. This workshop provides a foundation understanding of supplements, their use and the role they play in both elite sport and our daily life.    

Topics include:

• Understanding what supplements really are
• Exploring supplementation safety, quality of supplement production and associated batch testing
• Which supplements are beneficial for our health and performance?

This workshop is tailored for students of all levels.

Building further on the ‘Introduction to Sports Nutrition’ this workshop explores further how to use knowledge of macronutrients, micronutrients and fluid to construct a nutrition plan that will support improvements in performance, health and productivity. This workshop has a focus on developing optimal performance.

Topics include:

• Understanding how food groups impact performance and how to optimise
• Nutritional strategies to reduce excess body fat
• Understanding the relevance of energy balance in mass related goals
• Understanding the role of protein and carbohydrates in body composition and performance goals

This workshop is tailored for students of all levels but particularly relevant to those who have previously joined the ‘Introduction to Sports Nutrition’ workshop.

Consistency is key when it comes to successful performances, something which only results if the athlete is able to undertake consistent blocks of training, free from illness. A key focus of sports nutrition is on maximising time at peak physical health through immune nutritional science. This workshop focuses on the fundamental principles of nutrition for immune health and considers energy consumption around key training schedules and refining micronutrients in diets.

Topics include:

• A foundation understanding in the knowledge and fundamentals of immune health
• The role of nutrition in supporting immune health
• Nutrition strategies to help prevent illness
• An understanding of how performance and productivity are impacted by immune health

This workshop is tailored for students of all levels but particularly relevant to those who have previously joined the ‘Introduction to Sports Nutrition’ workshop.

With a specific focus on understanding and exploring how best to build a nutrition plan suitable for your health and performance goals this interactive workshop is completely practical and will result in you being able to construct your own personalised nutrition plan. Under the guidance of your tutor this workshop turns nutritional science into practical food, creating your own meal plan, categorising sports food and ‘eating the rainbow’.

Topics include:

• Guidance on how to calculate and develop your own personalised nutritional plan
• Translating nutritional data into practical solutions; helping to increase understanding of what is contained in each food type and source
• Understanding of what foods to eat before, during and after exercise.
• Consideration of personal nutrition goals based on your body compositions

This workshop is tailored for students of all levels but particularly relevant to those who have previously joined the ‘Introduction to Sports Nutrition’ workshop.

Fundamental nutrition change is a result of exploring and understanding eating habits and behaviours and consideration of how these need to be changed or altered. This workshop combines nutrition and psychology and considers how plans can be set, followed and how changes can be enacted.

Key topics:

• Understanding the role of habits in our eating behaviours
• Exploration of how to build healthy habits around food choices, planning, scheduling, preparation and behavioural changes
• Incorporation of psychological models of behaviour change to facilitate delivery of your goals
• Understanding of our eating habits and how these impact our performance, health and performance goals

This workshop is tailored for students of all levels but particularly relevant to those who have previously joined the ‘Introduction to Sports Nutrition’ workshop.