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Wageningen University

Nutrition, Exercise and Sports

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Overview

Are you involved in sports or regular exercise and do you want to have a better understanding of the role of nutrition on performance and health? Do you want to learn whether certain nutritional strategies could be relevant for your own athletic performance and/or muscle growth? Are you a dietitian, personal trainer, physiotherapist or a health/sport coach and do you want to be able to provide proper nutritional advice for your clients? Or, are you none of the above but interested in nutrition, exercise and sports and do you want to make your own informed decisions about your daily food intake?

Then this online course Nutrition, Exercise and Sports is for you! Nutrition is crucial to live an active and healthy life, to support training, and to optimize performance. In this online course, researchers and teachers from Wageningen University & Research will familiarize you with the nutritional aspects of exercise and sports. What are the basic concepts in exercise physiology and sport nutrition science? How is exercise being fueled for the different types of sports like; power sports, sprinting and endurance exercise? And how does protein support skeletal muscle mass and performance? In this online course you will learn to estimate energy needs and understand thermoregulation and fluid balance. You will learn about the role of micronutrients and supplements in exercise performance. Moreover, you will be introduced to some health issues related to doing exercise.

This online course also touches upon how the lessons learned from nutrition and sports research can be applied during ageing. For example, what are the benefits of extra protein in vulnerable age groups?

Be aware that this course will not tell you exactly what to eat. Instead, you will learn and understand the nutritional aspects of exercise and sport, so you can make your own informed decisions and critically evaluate nutritional advices and claims.

For whom?

The online course Nutrition, Exercise and Sports is especially useful for:

  • Sport- and health coaches, Physiotherapists and Dietitians
  • People working in the (sport) food industry
  • Athletes and professional sporters
  • Everyone with a healthy appetite for knowledge about nutrition, exercise and sports

Ready to join the MOOC Nutrition, Exercise and Sports? This online course contains several interesting and inspiring interviews with nutrition and sport professionals. It will provide basic understanding of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, and contains challenging assignments that will give you insight in nutritional needs and performance benefits for (your) athletes, your clients or yourself.

Syllabus

Week 1 | Introduction to Sport Nutrition (Science)

Key topics:

An introduction into Sports, Exercise and Nutrition, including types of Sports, Sport Nutrition Pyramid. An introduction into Sport Nutrition Science - including empirical cycle, study designs, critical issues and performance measurements.

Week 2 | Skeletal Muscle, Exercise and Sports

Key topics:

An introduction into Skeletal muscle anatomy & physiology, including contraction and energy transfer. Exercise capacity: Power & Endurance. Cardiopulmonal system during Exercise

Week 3 | Energy and Fluid balance

Key topics:

Energy requirement, energy availability. Thermoregulation, Fluid balance, (de)hydration & rehydration strategies

Week 4 | Macronutrients

Key topics:

Carbohydrates & fats as energy source, nutritional strategies. Skeletal muscle protein metabolism and dietary protein intake.

Week 5 | Micronutrients and ergogenic supplements

Key topics:

Function of micronutrients and recommendations: Iron, Magnesium, calcium and Vitamins D and B. Ergogenic supplements and sports performance

Week 6 | Exercise and Nutrition during ageing

Key topics:

Skeletal muscle and ageing, Protein & Exercise in older adults, Intervention strategies

Taught by

Dr. Marco Mensink, Rieneke Terink MSc and Pol Grootswagers MSc

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4.7 rating, based on 1,187 Class Central reviews

4.4 rating at edX based on 15 ratings

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    Victoria Iglesias
    It is so clear and interesting, I really didn't want to finish it.
    I truly recommend it!
    Thank you very much to all the professionals involved!
  • Anonymous
    Good introduction to nutrition and exercise. It has a section for older adults and protein, and loss of muscle mass due to lack of exercise.
  • Anonymous
    It's not difficult. I appreciate to do all the exercices.
    I have just one suggestion: second session for those whom loose the final exam.
  • Anonymous
    Good beginner course to understand how nutrition and diet impact performance. Would recommend it to everyone and not just athletes.
  • Anonymous
    Thanks a lot, I'm a 21 year old nutrition student and really eager to know about sport nutrition, my university classes can help me but this course made me soooo informative and super conscious about critical rew

    quirements, dangerous of overloads, crucial effect of exercise and maro and micro nutrients and....

    So now, I'm more professional in nutrition and exercise field which results in this fact that I can help my future clients and the people surrouding me . What is better than it?

    Big thank you for all this science-based information you gave us, more courses are useful too without any doubt.

    I wish all you love ,laugh and success.
  • Bryan Lee-Smith
    Very informative and thought-provoking, pitched at a good level for the non-specialist who is interested in improving sporting performance.
  • Anthony Reeves
    Very good information about sports and nutrition. The test are hard but it makes you really have to listen and take good notes.
  • Anonymous
    Thank you so much for this course. I've learned plenty of new things about nutrition and sports. It's a very good introduction.
  • Anonymous
    Very interesting course that provides a good academic level of teaching. Could do with more time to complete the course, though.
  • Anonymous
    This course really gave me fascinating insights into the working of muscles and how you can support its working by nutrition.
  • Anonymous
    It’s simple and rich of informations,
    Short videos made the course light and fun.
    I would recommend it to all my colleagues
  • Anonymous
    Learnt a lot regarding nutrition in sports and also about the research process. The instructors seem knowledgeable.
  • Anonymous
    Good course overall, maybe vidéo on sports and nutrition when illness or hormonal disorders as well as naturopathie
  • Anonymous
    I found the videos needed clearer speakers this often made it difficult for me to understand the information
  • Anonymous
    Very engaging material (videos), flexible, I managed to comfortably complete the course in my own time
  • Anonymous
    I have a great benefit from this course, my comment is on the first part about searches was somthing boring to put it first at the start
    Thanks alot for your efforts
  • Anonymous
    The classes are broken down very well into bits that are practical, informative, challenging and enjoyable.

    I particularly loved the modules on macronutrients and exercise. I genuinely didn't understand the importance of insulin in muscle protein synthesis.

    I recommend this program to every interested party, especially trainers and clinical nutritionists like myself.
  • Anonymous
    Excellent course even if you are not active in the field. I learned a lot that I can apply to exercise and nutrition in general. Great chapter on ageing, also very useful for a medical doctor. One small suggestion: a course in English pronunciation for Mr Mensink. Listen to Sander Kersten and you'll know what I mean.
  • Anonymous
    The Nutrition, Exercise and Sports course is full of information and insights that benefit anyone working in the health and fitness industry, anyone who just enjoys sports, exercise, or anyone who wants to learn more about these topics. It will provide you with the knowledge and inspiration to be more active and improve your own nutrition as well as help others. The course is well designed and organised in a step by step process so you can tick off each item as you go, and reinforce your learning with the tests and quizzes.
  • Anonymous
    The course was great. I liked the practical quests very much but I would have liked to see more measurements / experiments which can be done by a non-gym goer. I mean, I can't measure my max strength on 1 repetition of lifting if I don't have weight…
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