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General Information

Name of the module: Sports Nutrition
Number of credits ECTS: 10 ECTS
Temporal Unity: Annual
Character: Compulsory
 

Brief description of the contents

  • Cineanthropometry and corporal composition
  • Stress tests: Design and interpretation
  • Mechanic, psychological, physiological and phytotherapeutical aids: An ergogenic approach
  • Pharmacological aids used in sports
  • Are there any useful nutritional ergogenic aids?
  • Exercise planning and programming
  • Tests for muscular and cardiorespiratory endurance: theory and practice
  • Tests to evaluate strength and speed: theory and practice
  • Hydration and dehydration in sports
  • Sport beverages, functional and energetic
  • Dietary planning for aerobic, anaerobic and mixed sports
  • Eating disorders in sports

Module Competencies

GENERAL AND BASICS COMPETENCIES:

  • Possessing and comprehending knowledge that offers a base and opportunity of being original in the development and/or application of ideas, usually in a research context.
  • The students being able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments from an information that, being incomplete or limited, includes opinions on the social and ethic responsibility related to the implementation of their knowledge and judgment.
  • Possessing learning abilities which allow them to continue studying in a way that will be mostly self-directed and autonomous.
  • Knowing how to communicate the conclusions, knowledge and reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized publics in a clear and ambiguity-free way.
  • Applying their knowledge within the framework of the Human Rights, the democratic principles, the equality principles between women and men, principles of solidarity, of environmental protection, of universal accessibility and design for everybody, and the principles for peace culture promotion.
  • Being able of obtaining and selecting relevant information and sources for the resolution of problems, elaboration of strategies and assessment.
  • Elaborating and handle the most appropriate documents, reports and acting procedures for the problems that may arouse.
  • Planning, ordering and channelling activities in a way they avoid unexpected events; foreseeing and minimizing the occasional problems and prevent solutions.
  • Looking at the big picture and taking into account the different aspects and implications in the different decisions and options, knowing how to choose or advise the most convenient ones within the frame of ethics, legality and social cohabitation values.

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COURSES.

  •  Knowing how to work in multi-disciplinary teams reproducing real contexts and providing and coordinating the acquired knowledge in other branches and parties.
  •  Participating in debates and discussions, directing and coordinating them and summarizing and extracting the most relevant and accepted conclusions from them.
  •  Using the different oral and written expression techniques, presentations, panels, etc. in order to communicate, knowledge, proposals and propositions.
  •  Projecting knowledge on concrete problems; summarizing and extracting the most relevant arguments and conclusions for its resolution.

SPECIFIC

  • Elaborating dietetic treatments adapted to each physiological and/or pathological and/or community situation.
  • Analysing commercialised nutraceutical products with a possible personalized utility.
  • Ability to develop cooking technology adapted to individualized and communitarian nutritional therapies
  • Knowing how to design dietary-therapeutic offices and unities for hospital nutrition.
  • Knowing strategies, tools and social media designed plans; food marketing and TIC for the development of dietetic activities.
  • Knowing the normative on alimentary information, its publicity and selling strategies.
  • Studying anatomic points, proportionality and corporal composition in the frame of cineanthropometry and anothropometry.
  • Planning intervention strategies to hydrate.
  • Planning strategies of dietary interventions by sporting disciplines
  • Knowing the different ergogenic aids
  • Acquiring the knowledge that allows to act in accordance with the fundamental rights and equality principles.

Assessment System

  •  Theoretical Exam
  •  Practical Exam
  •  Group Work
  •  Assistance and Participation