Advanced Nutritional Coaching Course

Advanced Nutritional Coaching Course

The course provides you, as a student, with a fundamental knowledge of nutrition, and as such is essential for the fitness professional who seeks to better educate their clients.

With a strong focus on client health and performance, you will gain an understanding of food and how different foods can impact on a client’s overall health and fitness goals. The course will also look at how different combinations of foods and food groups can affect a client’s goals, and how to best help your client eat right to achieve their desired outcomes.

The course concludes with a review of the limitations of advice that a fitness professional can and cannot offer and how best to refer clients needing additional help to appropriate allied health or medical professionals.

Topics included in this course are:

• The basic principles of nutrition
• Assessing your client’s current diet and food diaries
• Building meal plans for clients
• Understanding how the body uses nutrients as fuel for energy
• Carbohydrate loading
• The Nutrient Timing Factor
• Hydration and eating around exercise
• Weight loss
• Professional, legal and insurance considerations
• Nutritional deficiencies, intolerances and allergies
• Scope of practice and when to refer clients
• Sports supplements

Course Details:

The course is delivered and assessed online.

The duration of this course is 6 months, including assessment. A certificate of completion will be issued upon successful completion.

Entry Requirements: There are no pre-requisites for this course

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