Advisory and Client-Focused

Level 5

Welcome and Introduction

📘 SKILLS LAB ™: What’s your goal? 

Complete your Personal Strategy Questionnaire 

Interact: How much do your classmates exercise?

POLL: Which fitness goal matters most to you right now?

📕 UNIT 1: Introduction to nutrition for physical activity

POLL: Share your current Diet Score

📕 UNIT 2: Nutritional recommendations for your client

POLL: Which C.R.A.P. foods show up most in your diet?

📕 UNIT 3: Building a Personalised Diet Plan for Your Client

POLL: Check in with how much protein you usually eat

▶️ Watch and Learn: Are athletes getting faster, better, stronger?

Your Knowledge Essentials (Part 1)

Downloadable Client Materials and Session Handouts

🎙️Off The Page Podcast

Module feedback

Before you take your quiz

Module quiz

1. Building a Diet Plan

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What really counts as being an athlete?

📕 Unit 1: Analysing your client’s food diary and fluid intake

POLL: What does your daily coffee habit look like?

📕 Unit 2: Planning a Training Diet

POLL: How many extra calories tend to slip into your day?

▶️ Watch and Learn: Do plant-based diets work for the vegetarian athlete?

POLL: How would you describe your current dietary approach?

2. Analysing Food Journals

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Can exercise really undo a few drinks?

📕 Unit 1: How the body stores energy

POLL: Where does exercise fuel come from?

📕 Unit 2: Carbohydrates

POLL: How does your body handle low-carb eating?

📕 Unit 3: Amino Acids

POLL: Recheck your current protein intake

📕 Unit 4: Dietary Fat

POLL: How well do you know what hyponatraemia means?

📕 Unit 5: Water

▶️ Watch and Learn: How to win a sprint

📕 Unit 6: Micro-nutrients

3. How The Body Stores Fuel and Fat

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

📕 Unit 1: Good carbs, bad carbs and the GI index of foods

POLL: What does low GI actually tell you?

📕Unit 2: Calculating your client’s carbohydrate requirements

POLL: Share your daily carb needs

📕 Unit 3: Carb loading methods for endurance events

POLL: Which endurance events or sports do you take part in?

4. Carb Loading Strategies for Peak Performance

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How confident are you with fuelling around exercise?

📕Unit 1: Fuel before exercise

📕Unit 2: Fuel during exercise

📕Unit 3: Fuel between workouts

📕 Unit 4: Fuel after exercise and recovery

5. Fuelling Muscles Before, During and After exercise

Module 6 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Does extra protein always mean extra muscle?

📕Unit 1: Building and Repairing Muscle

📕 Unit 2: Protein for Muscle Strength, Growth and Performance

POLL: Do you engage in strength and power activities?

📕 Unit 3: Calculating Protein Requirements

📕 Unit 4: Planning a Weight Control Diet

POLL: What's your weight goal?

6. Muscle Building and Weight Control

Module 7 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How confident are you with sports drink knowledge?

📕 Unit 1: Replacing sweat losses

📕 Unit 2: Hydrating before, during and after exercise

📕 Unit 3: Sports drinks

Your Knowledge Essentialls (Part 2)

7. Replacing Sweat Losses

Module 8 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Which event type best matches your training focus?

📕 Unit 1: Pre-competition nutrition

📕 Unit 2: Nutrition strategies on the competition day

POLL: What kind of major event are you aiming for, if any?

📕 Unit 3: Planning a competition eating program

▶️ Watch and Learn: A solo row across the Atlantic Ocean

8. Competition Diets for Endurance, Power and Strength

Module 9 Learning Outcomes

📕 Unit 1: Do’s, Don’ts and Must-Do’s as a Sports and Exercise Nutritional Advisor

📕 Unit 2: Legal, Insurance, Tax and Professional Considerations: Template documents

Final Exam

9. Professional Considerations and FINAL EXAM

Complete your Certificate Registration Form

🎓 Graduation BONUS: Supplements, performance enhancers and engineered sports foods

Do you need insurance to practice?

Accessing Your Certificate

10. BONUS and Final Steps

<p>You’ll get to participate in a 31-unit program that teaches you about latest science-based strategies in sports nutrition – from highly competitive athletics, to endurance, power and strength; from muscle building to fat loss. We use a combination of practical worksheets, supporting videos, and scientific research to give you the tools you need to answer clients’ questions about gains, fitness and performance, and routines that will yield the best results. </p>

Work with highly competitive athletes and active clients, and help with their endurance, power, strength, and fitness

Advanced Sports and Exercise Nutritional Advisor

Maurice Castelijn

What you will learn

Engineer a personalised nutritional programme for peak performance: from endurance to strength and power, and from short to prolonged events

Gain advanced knowledge on sports nutrition and sports drinks, including the right hydration at the right time and how to replace sweat losses

Analyse food journals, plan a training diet, and schedule eating times for fuel efficiency, fitness, and recovery

Understand how the body stores glycogen and fat, and how to fuel muscles before, during, and after exercise

Calculate carbohydrate, protein, and fat requirements for muscle recovery, muscle preservation, weight (fat) loss, and weight (muscle) gain

Create competition diets for endurance, power and strength, including planning and rehearsing carb loading strategies for peak performance

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