Professional Diploma in Sports Nutrition
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.
- Category: Sports Nutrition
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 8 months
- Price: 1150 EUR
Official courses from Barça Innovation Hub, FC Barcelona's educational arm, with experts who have worked inside the club. Earn an accredited certificate issued by the hub, available across the Middle East and North Africa through Champions Hub, its official partner for the fifth year.
What you will learn
- 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.
Course content
- Module 1: Food and Athletic Performance
- Bioenergetics
- Food and Nutrition
- Applied Sports Nutrition
- Integrative Reading
- Module 2: Supplementation and Ergogenic Aids in Sports
- Introductory Concepts
- Sports Foods
- Ergogenic Aids
- Integrative Reading
- Module 3: Sports Hydration
- Introductory Concepts
- Dehydration, Hyperthermia and Performance Loss: Traditional Approach
- Evidence-Based Hydration: A Contemporary Approach
- Integrative Module
- Module 4: Body Composition, Somatotype and Athletic Performance
- Body Composition
- Body Composition, Athletic Performance and Nutrition
- Somatotype
- Integrative Module
- Module 5: Advanced Sports Nutrition
- The history and future of sports nutrition
- What it takes to be effective in sports nutrition
- Supplements versus foods
- Immune system
- Module 6: Nutrition, Recovery and Training Adaptations
- Exercise and fatigue
- Recovery and adaptation
- Optimising recovery and adaptation
- Recovery from injury
- Module 7: Match Day Preparation and Personalized Nutrition
- Personalised nutrition?
- Preparing for match day
- Extreme conditions
- Supplements
- Module 8: Periodized Nutrition
- The theory
- Training the gut
- Training low
- From theory to practice