Sports Nutrition or Sport and Exercise Nutrition Science is the application of nutrition principles to improve training, recovery, and performance. Athletes have always consumed food but an academic focus on sports began in the 1930s when human physiology research studies began examining carbohydrate and fat metabolism in athletes engaging in endurance exercise. As the understanding of the complex nutritional needs of athletes and trained personnel grew, a greater focus was shifted to protein metabolism and its impact on muscle anabolism and catabolism. Over the last decade, the lack of sex and gender diversity in scientific sports nutrition research has become clear. Failure to consider either or both sex and gender in study design and analysis is widespread and the literature is showing that not only are females underrepresented in the research but, co-conflation of the terms sex and gender was widespread, causing further confusion.
A summary of the evidence and highlights from studies will be presented for several key areas of sports nutrition. This webinar will highlight many of the latest studies in the area and provide new perspectives.
What will I gain from this webinar?
- Be able to describe the current landscape concerning sports nutrition and how it impacts males and females.
- Identify the areas where further research is needed and why it is required.
- Look specifically at Energy Availability and how ongoing applied research at an elite level has been filling some gaps in the research field.
Endorsement No EN175.70
Course Features
- Lectures 2
- Quiz 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Students 212
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Yes
