You will apply the principles of sports nutrition to plan the diet of an athlete with the aim of optimising their health, their sports performance, and their body composition.
You will understand and analyse the characteristics of the physical preparation and training of athletes, to be able to work in a coordinated way with nutritional planning, body composition, and relevant health aspects.
You will learn to use tools for assessing body composition in athletes to carry out nutritional planning.
You will plan the hydration practices for different athletes.
You will be trained to develop nutritional work to prevent or recover from sports injuries.
You will understand the mechanisms of acute and chronic inflammation and their integration with sports development, as well as proper management from nutritional work.
You will understand the concept of chronobiology, chrononutrition and its relationship with sleep and recovery of the athlete, being able to integrate it into nutritional work.
You will know the physiology of the digestive system, the intestinal microbiota, and the most common pathologies in athletes to treat them from a nutritional point of view.