Sports Nutrition and Weight Management

Sports nutrition is a specialization within the field of nutrition that partners closely with the study of the human body and exercise science. Sports Nutrition can be defined as the application of nutrition knowledge to a practical daily eating plan providing the fuel for physical activity, facilitating the repair and building process following hard physical work and achieve athletic performance in competitive events, while also promoting overall health and wellness. The basic concept for sports nutrition for athletes requires proper eating strategies and need to have a command of general nutrition as well as exercise science. The second step is to gain the knowledge of how nutrition and exercise science are intertwined, emphasize that physical training and dietary habits are reliant on each other in order to produce optimal performance. The final step is the practical application of sport nutrition knowledge on the individual sports person who is participating in any sport or physical activity.