Sports Nutrition Physiology and Anatomy
What you'll learn
- How your muscular system is composed and how muscle contraction works.
- The difference between muscle strength, power and endurance.
- How your body reacts to exercise.
- Which training adaptations develop with resistance and endurance training.
- What energy systems are available to fuel your muscles.
- How to determine your energy requirements and maintain energy balance.
- How nutrition can be used to accommodate sports performance.
Requirements
- This course is not an academic course. Actually it's designed for all levels of athletes and fitness enthusiasts. Beginners and advanced students will both benefit. No prior knowledge is required.
Description
Learning more about sports nutrition physiology and anatomy is not the first thing that comes to mind if athletes and fitness enthusiasts are eying to improve performance by acquiring knowledge.
But understanding how the body is affected by exercise both in the short term and through long term physical activity, is vital when it comes down to understanding the importance of optimizing your sports nutrition.
Knowing about Sport nutrition physiology and anatomy is all about improving performance by knowing how the body functions during exercise, and applying scientific principles that allow you to train better, allow your body to perform better and recover quicker. Studies in anatomy and physiology help athletes achieve greatness.
Basically our course has 2 components: 1) anatomy 2) physiology.
1) Anatomy is the study of the structure of the human body and its component parts.
2) Physiology is the study of how the body and its systems function.
This School of Sports Nutrition course is a 23-lesson course that teaches you all about the mechanisms that support the normal functions of the human body and the influence of exercise and sports on these functions.
The course is providing completely unaware athletes and fitness enthusiasts with a solid physiology and anatomy basis to build their nutrition knowledge on.
So click on the purple ‘ADD TO CART’ button and enroll in our exciting new course: “SPORTS NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY” and start building your knowledge from zero to hero!
Who this course is for:
- Athletes and fitness enthusiasts.
Instructor
![Jurgen Swinckels](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 367 Reviews
- 15,277 Students
- 3 Courses
Actually to be honest, I don’t like bio's written in third person but since I have this lovely bio that was written for me for a conference, I’ve decided to just go with it:
Jurgen holds a graduate degree in food & agriculture from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, which includes a Certificate in Nutrition, Exercise and Sports.
He is also a certified sports nutritionist with the American Fitness Professionals & Associates (AFPA), and holds sport nutrition certificates from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the US National Federation of State High School Associations (NFSH), and Ironman University. Finally he has obtained a certificate in sports nutrition for football from Barça Universitas and he is a certified race director with USA Triathlon.
Besides his theoretical background Jurgen has gained a great deal of practical understanding of the impact of sports nutrition on physical performance, because he has been an active athlete throughout his live. He has practiced and/or competed in a wide range of sports varying from horse show jumping, field hockey, snowboarding and windsurfing to running, inline skating, mountain biking and triathlon. He completed a bunch of Half and Full marathons and countless Olympic distance triathlons and duathlons. Jurgen finished 3 full Ironman races, over 30 Half Ironman races and he qualified for the World Championship Ironman 70.3 in 2010.
In 2016 Jurgen founded Bollox Sports Nutrition, a company that is occupied with the production and marketing of sports nutrition products for endurance athletes. This has largely helped him widening his sports nutrition experience.
In 2020 he established the School of Sports Nutrition, a digital education platform about sports nutrition for amateur -and professional athletes and fitness enthusiasts. The aim of the SSN is to help students get a better understanding of sports nutrition and enhance the outcome of their workouts and competitions, with the least possible effort and at an attractive price.