Upon completion of this module, the participants will:

• Learn eating programs that will aid the professional athlete or patient that aggressively exercises
• Recognize the science of eating for sports success
• Learn winning recipes for peak athletic performance
• Recognize body pollutants that will decrease athletic performance
• Know vitamins that will aid in athletic performance
• Learn minerals that will aid athletic performance
• Understand the importance of good sleep hygiene and performance
• Learn the nutritional depletions that are caused by vigorous exercise programs
• Learn how antioxidants combat injury
• Know how to prevent infections in athletes
• Understand cardiovascular responses to exercise and training
• Know anaerobic metabolism, acid-base balance, and muscle fatigue during high intensity exercise
• Learn about eating disorders in athletics
• Know respiratory responses of athletes to exercise
• Recognize adaptations in skeletal muscle in response to endurance training
• Learn the endocrinology of exercise
• Understand the aging athlete
• Look at exercise and pregnancy
• Understand sport psychology
• Know biomechanics as applied to sports
• Recognize the physiological and clinical consequences of exercise in heat and humidity
• Learn the affects altitude has on sport performance
• Know about fluid and electrolyte loss and replacement in exercise
• Discover the epidemiology of athletic injuries
• Learn the role of exercise in the treatment of chronic disease
• Ascertain how to prevent injuries
• Know how to select the appreciate diet for the athlete or patient that exercises vigorously
• Know the protein and carbohydrate requirements for various types of athletes
• Realize how to manage weight issues in athletes
• Find out techniques for weight gain in athletes