Postgraduate in sports supplementation + university degree with 8 ECTS credits

The increase in demands and expectations in the quality of life of contemporary Western society translates into the search for better food, healthier and balanced, which causes the concern for everything that refers to dietary and human nutrition is growing. To achieve a balanced, healthy and adequate diet to enjoy good health, a series of basic knowledge in human and dietary nutrition are required. If we also focus on the sports field, the physical conditions and special energy needs of athletes make it necessary to have a high specialization in maeria of supplementation and nutrition in sport. Through this postgraduate postgraduatement for athletes, all this professional knowledge and competences are offered to athletes.

The objectives to be achieved with the realization of this course in sports supplementation are the following: - Offer an approach to the main concepts of dietary and nutrition, applied to the feeding of people who perform some type of sports activity at a higher or less level. - Present the nutritional aspects of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins. - Know the specific nutritional needs of people who practice some sport. - Provide the necessary knowledge to elaborate an adequate food plan for people who carry out some sporting activity, either professional or simply or as a measure to stay fit. - Know and recognize the different concepts associated with dietary and nutrition. - Establish a classification of food and nutrients for adequate development in physical-sports activities. - Determine the nutritional value and food composition. - Recognize applied mycology within the scope of the sports supplement. - Work within the scope of sports supplementation, taking into account ergogenic aids. - Determine anti -doping practices and establish a direct relationship with national anti -doping regulations.

After performing this online postgraduate, you can work in specialized dietary and nutrition centers. Develop your work activity in dietary consultations or nutrition franchises. You can collaborate in diets elaboration teams in aesthetic centers, gyms, sports clubs. You can also exercise your work activity in pharmacies.

Thanks to this postgraduate supplementation for athletes you can obtain the professional knowledge and competences necessary to prepare and/or supervise the food that people who do some sport receive, both professional and amateur. Bearing in mind for this, the fundamental concepts of dietary and nutrition. In addition, to complete your training in this area, you will develop the most important knowledge in relation to sports supplementation. Through which it is possible to improve the performance and results of the athlete.

The present postgraduate in sports supplementation is aimed at students, professionals and graduates of the sport and physical activity. People who are interested in developing their knowledge in sports nutrition and supplementation. Likewise, it would be adequate for all those people and athletes who, due to work or personal interest, want to train in the field.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Infant Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Professional Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master and PhD). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at acquiring certain skills, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, being able to be barely as merit in workbags and/or opposition competitions, always within the complementary training section and/or continuous training being always essential to review the specific requirements of the public labor stock of the public labor stock market.