This course will provide students with a critical understanding of recent research investigating nutrition for sport and exercise performance. The course will cover nutritional support and nutritional aids for aerobic exercise, resistance exercise and post-exercise recovery and the evidence base surrounding these.

This course will take place online in semester 1.

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50% Written assignment (1500 words) ILOs 1,3,5

50% Report (2000 words) ILOs 1,2,4,5

This course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of recent research investigating nutrition for sport and exercise performance. The course will cover nutritional support and nutritional aids for aerobic exercise, resistance exercise and post-exercise recovery and understand and critique the evidence base surrounding these strategies.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Critically evaluate nutritional aids which have been suggested to enhance sport and exercise performance

2. Critically discuss the mechanisms which underlie the purported ergogenic action of these methods

3. Critically evaluate the evidence supporting the efficacy of popular nutritional strategies

4. Appraise areas where further study is required to support or refute a suggested nutritional strategies

5. Demonstrate practical understanding of laboratory-based evaluation of nutritional strategies to enhance sport and exercise performance

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.