Applied Sport and Exercise Nutrition

This module provides you with an integrated foundation in essential human nutrition and exercise physiology required for professional practice in sport and exercise nutrition. It will help you reach Masters- level understanding of the physiological and nutritional principles underpinning human health, exercise performance, and metabolic adaptation.

You will learn the core concepts related to:

• energy intake
• energy expenditure
• nutrient metabolism
• and physiological function

alongside key methods used to assess nutritional status and physiological responses. Emphasis is placed on the critical evaluation of evidence, measurement techniques, and reference standards, helping you to interpret nutritional and physiological data within applied sport, exercise, and health contexts.

This module will give you an overview of the use of nutrition techniques, interventions and knowledge as applied to the practice of sport and exercise nutrition.

You will gather and interpret relevant performance, training and nutrition information and design and justify context-specific nutrition strategies, including use of food, fluids and selected ergogenic aids. You will progress your communication with athletes and stakeholders and evaluate the feasibility, impact and risks of advice in line with current professional and regulatory standards.

The module underpins the Sport and Exercise Nutrition (SENR) Competencies in sport and exercise nutrition and provides the core practical foundation for subsequent applied modules on the MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Nutrition.

This module is designed to equip you with the tools necessary for the scholarship and research skills needed for the computer science and cyber security fields as well as developing the professional skills and outlook needed for a lifelong career in the computing industry.

In this module, you'll examine the relationships between nutrition, physical activity and health outcomes in humans. In particular, the influence of diet and physical activity on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity will be considered along with counselling and goal-setting for diet, nutrition and exercise.

This module provides you with opportunities to reflect on your professional practice and to consider the legal and ethical boundaries when working in sport and exercise nutrition settings. You will also gain training to assist in working with clients with special needs (e.g. young, elderly, vegetarian, females, athletes with clinical conditions, disabled population, and participants from non-mainstream sports) or who come from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds that do not otherwise fit the 'standard' model of sport and exercise nutrition.

This module consists of a practical component using state-of-the-art laboratory techniques including portable calorimetry, densitometry, haematology and urine analysis. This module includes comprehensive testing on both invited athletes and classmates. In addition to the practical element, a main focus of the module is placed on data interpretation and presentation to aid report writing for scientific publications and also athlete and coach feedback. Enrolment on the module also entitles you to complementary registration for the highly sought after International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK) Level 1 qualification (on completion of the required additional practical and theoretical components).

This module will enable you to engage in individual or group research under the guidance of a supervisor to pursue a sustained critical inquiry and gain an in-depth understanding of a specific area of

• dietetics
• nutrition
• nutrition epidemiology
• eating behaviour
• food science
• or public health through primary or secondary data collection and analysis.

Research projects typically include some elements of design and planning of some form of data collection, development of new hypotheses, and analysis of findings. Data collection may be laboratory experimentation (human participants, foods/food ingredients),

• questionnaires/surveys
• clinical audits
• or interviews/focus groups.

You will have the opportunity to critically engage with appropriate research methodology (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods) and academic literature in a reflective, analytical, and critically self-aware fashion.