The IFPA Sports Nutrition Specialist Certification teaches how nutritional intake can maximize exercise training and boost athletic performance. This course explains how the body uses food for fuel and the different roles that key nutrients play in making us strong and healthy. This course was created to provide an understanding of sports nutrition concepts to help you find the best ways to understand and wade through the endless sea of information and the tremendous amount of misinformation concerning nutrition. This program is designed to provide sound, scientifically based understanding of sports nutrition and the recommendations established from modern concepts and research.
Subject areas include:
Energy metabolism
Principles of healthy nutrition
Food effects on metabolism and energy
Caloric requirements
Macronutrients - carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
Micronutrients - vitamins and minerals; water and fluids
Integrating energy use and training
Nutrition supplements
Performance enhancing supplements
Food label interpretation
Individualized nutritional considerations
Dangers of fad diets
Distance Learning (24 hrs CEU) $399
Course Learning Objectives
Learn the essential knowledge in Sports Nutrition critical to achieving your optimum results in health, fitness and athletic competition.
Learn the ideal mix, percentages, quality and quantity of the macro and micro nutrients.
Learn the optimum, healthy and performance enhancing methods for safe and effective “Fat Loss” NOT “Weight Loss.”
Learn the process of evaluating the efficiency of foods based of the goals, needs, wants and desires of your clients.
Learn to judge nutritional requirements based on a food item: calories, quantity of protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and more.
Course Learning Outcomes
You will be able to educate your clients on the methods and techniques of optimum Sports Nutrition.
Utilize the knowledge gained in this IFPA Sports Nutrition Certification Course to optimizing all of clients’ needs, wants, goals and decision.
Teach your clients about the health benefits of combining healthy nutrition with Fitness and physical activity.
Teach you the what, how and why nutrition is 80% of the battle when trying to attain ideal health, weight and body composition.
Educate your clients of the reasons why healthy body composition are far more beneficial and healthier than “Fat Loss Programs”
Course Goals
Learn the IFPA Sports Nutrition Guidelines with sufficient competency that you can teach guidelines to your clients.
Learn the scientific basis for Sports Nutrition in order to avoid the unsafe, ineffective “FADs in the Fat Loss Industry”.
Learn to separate nutrition “Fact” from “Fiction” and educate your clients to avoid unsafe unhealthy, ineffective “Fads” and magic pills, potions and elixirs.
Your clients know less about nutrition than they do about exercise: it is your duty to educate them. Nutrition is arguably "80% of the battle" and you deserve to charge fees comparable to your personal trainer fees in order to help them achieve their goals. The IFPA Sports Nutrition Specialist increases your value and increases your income.
Includes:
The Book on Sports Nutrition textbook
Workbook
Study guide
Fast Food Survival Guide
CD-Rom
200 question (multiple-choice) proctored certification
exam (mailed directly to proctor).
Prerequisite: Personal Fitness Trainer Certification Recommended
Discount: Purchase 2 or more certifications at the same time and receive a $100 discount off each additional certification program. Cannot be combined with other discounts.
