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Nutritional advice is essential in sports, as proper nutrition can help improve physical performance" 

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Elite athletes make a great physical effort during their daily activity, so it is normal that they may suffer certain injuries that require medical attention. However, nowadays, the popularization of physical exercise has meant that many people have incorporated sports practice into their daily tasks, taking it to a level of effort to which they are not used to and which, therefore, may also entail some physical risk. For this reason, specialization in sports nutrition goes beyond the knowledge of sports doctors, and should be seen as an essential complement for any health professional, who may find in their usual practice patients who, preventively or due to an injury, require advice in this field. 

This has led to an increasing number of healthcare professionals looking for high quality advanced master’s degree to improve their training in the field of nutritional counseling, which will allow them to offer more complete treatments that will facilitate their level of recovery. In this sense, TECH has decided to bet on this field, creating this Grand Master in Comprehensive Sports Nutrition, an advanced master’s degree developed by a team of highly qualified teachers, which integrates the latest concepts in nutrition and sports. 

Specifically, this program's syllabus provides a global vision of sports nutrition, while focusing on the most important and innovative aspects: Invisible training or proper diet for athletes, and nutrition before, during and after exercise. Additionally, it includes information related to professionals with different personal situations and different sports activities, specifying in each case the best dietary recommendations, with the objective that the Doctor has a complete knowledge that allows them to adapt to each user during the development of their daily practice. 

Thus, this Advanced Master's Degree will become an indispensable study material for all physicians who wish to acquire the necessary qualifications to work safely in this field of practice.

Sports physicians will find in this Advanced Master's Degree a unique opportunity to improve in the field of nutritional counseling"

This advanced master’s degree in Comprehensive Sports Nutrition contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include: 

  • The latest technology in e-learning software
  • Intensely visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
  • Practical case studies presented by practising experts
  • State-of-the-art interactive video systems
  • Teaching supported by telepractice
  • Continuous updating and recycling systems
  • Self-regulated learning: full compatibility with other occupations
  • Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
  • Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
  • Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
  • Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
  • Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the program

Become an expert in nutritional counseling and offer a more personalized attention to athletes who come to your medical office"

The teaching staff for this program is composed of practicing professionals. This way, TECH can fulfill the objective of academic updating that it has set for itself. A multidisciplinary staff of experienced professionals from a variety of environments, who will develop theoretical knowledge in an efficient manner, but above all, will put at the service of the students, practical knowledge derived from their own experience.   

This command of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this Grand Master. As such, it was developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts and integrates the latest advances in educational technology, allowing students to study with a range of convenient and versatile multimedia tools that will give them the operational skills they need for their training.   

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning, an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, TECH will use telepractice. Thanks to an innovative interactive video system and learning from an expert, students will be able to acquire the knowledge as if they were facing the scenario they are currently learning. A concept that will allow students to integrate and memorize what they have learnt in a more realistic and permanent way.  

In TECH you will be able to use an innovative teaching methodology that will be fundamental to facilitate learning"

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Enroll in this advanced master’s degree and have unlimited access to all the of the program resources"

Objectives

This TECH advanced master’s degree in Comprehensive Sports Nutrition is designed to improve the skills of medical professionals so that, when they have to work with high-level athletes, they will be able to advise them on nutritional matters with the maximum rigor and safety. In this way, the completion of this program will not only bring significant benefits to the training of doctors, but also to the health of the athletes they treat. 

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Immerse yourself in this advanced master’s degree and improve your skills in nutritional counseling to athletes”

General Objectives

  • Update the professional's knowledge of new trends in human nutrition
  • Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and their application to athletes 
  • Encourage the acquisition of technical skills and abilities, through a powerful audiovisual system, and the possibility of development through online simulation workshops and/or specific training
  • Encourage professional stimulation through continuing education and research 
  • Prepare the professional for research into patients with nutritional problems
  • Handle advanced knowledge on nutritional planning in professional and non-professional athletes for the healthy performance of physical exercise
    Manage advanced knowledge on nutritional planning in professional athletes of various fields in order to achieve maximum sports performance
  • Learn advanced knowledge about nutritional planning in professional athletes from team sports to achieve the highest sports performance 
  • Manage and consolidate the initiative and entrepreneurial spirit needed to launch projects related to nutrition in physical activity and sport
  • Know how to incorporate the different scientific advances into one' s own professional field
  • Ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment 
  • Advanced understanding of the context in which their area of expertise is being developed
  • Manage advanced skills in the detection of possible signs of nutritional changes associated with sports activities
  • Manage the necessary skills through the teaching-learning process that will allow them to continue ways and learning in the field of sports nutrition , both through the contacts established with professors and professionals in the Master' well as on their own 
  • Specialize in the structure of muscle tissue and its role in sports
  • Know the energetic and nutritional needs of athletes in different pathophysiological situations
  • Specialize in the energetic and nutritional needs of athletes in the different situations specific to age and gender
  • Become a specialist in the dietary strategies for the prevention and treatment of injured athletes
  • Specialize in the energetic and nutritional needs of child athletes
  • Specialize in the energetic and nutritional needs of Paralympic athletes

Specific Objectives

Block 1 Nutrition in Physical Activity and Sport 

  • Analyze the different methods for assessing nutritional status 
  • Interpret and integrate anthropometric, clinical, biochemical, hematological, immunological, and pharmacological data in the patient's nutritional assessment and dietary-nutritional treatment 
  • Early detection and evaluation of quantitative and qualitative deviations from the nutritional balance due to excess or deficiency 
  • Describe the composition and utilities of new foods 
  • Explain the different techniques and products of basic and advanced nutritional support related to the athlete’s nutrition 
  • Explain the correct use of ergogenic aids
  • Explain the current anti-doping regulations. BORRAR 
  • Identify psychological disorders related to the practice of sport and nutrition

Block 2 Nutrition for Special Populations in Physical Activity and Sport 

  • Gain an in-depth understanding of the structure of skeletal muscle
  • Understand in depth the functioning of skeletal muscle
  • Delve into the understanding of the most important changes that occur in athletes
  • Delve into the mechanisms of energy production according to the type of exercise undertaken
  • Further understanding of the interaction between the different energy systems that make up the muscle energy metabolism
  • Interpretation of biochemical factors to detect nutritional deficits or over training states 
  • Interpretation of the different types of body composition in order to optimize the appropriate weight and fat percentage for the sport being practiced
  • Monitoring of the athlete throughout the season
  • Planning of seasonal schedules according to individual requirements 
  • Delve into the most important characteristics of the main water sports
  • Understand the demands and requirements associated with sports activities in aquatic environments
  • Distinguish between the nutritional needs of different watersports
  • Differentiate between the main performance limiting factors caused by climate 
  • Develop an acclimatization plan appropriate to the situation given
  • Delve into the physiological adaptations due to altitude
  • Establish the correct individual hydration guidelines according to the climate
  • Differentiate between the different types of vegetarian athletes 
  • Gain an in-depth understanding of the main mistakes made 
  • Treat the notable nutritional deficiencies of sportsmen and sportswomen 
  • Manage skills to provide the athlete with the most effective tools to combine foods
  • Establish the physiological and biochemical mechanism of diabetes both at rest and during exercise
  • Deepen the understanding of how the different insulins or medications used by diabetics work
  • Assess the nutritional requirements for people with diabetes both in their daily life and in exercise, to improve their health
  • Deepen the knowledge necessary to plan nutrition for athletes of different disciplines with diabetes, in order to improve their health and performance
  • Establish the current state of evidence on Performance Enhancing Drugs in diabetics
  • Deepen understanding of the differences between the different categories of para-athletes and their physiological-metabolic limitations
  • Determine the nutritional requirements of the different para-sportsmen in order to establish a specific nutritional plan
  • Further the knowledge necessary to establish interactions between the ingestion of pharmaceuticals in these athletes and nutrients, to avoid nutrient deficits
  • Understand the body composition of para-athletes in different sport categories
  • Apply current scientific evidence on nutritional performance enhancing drugs
  • Establish the different characteristics and needs within sports by weight category
  • Understand in depth the different nutritional strategies for preparing the athlete for competition
  • Optimize the improvement of body composition through nutritional approach
  • Explain the specific physiological characteristics to be taken into account in the nutritional approach of different groups
  • Understand in depth the external and internal factors that influence the nutritional approach to these groups
  • Determine the different phases of the injury 
  • Help in the prevention of injuries 
  • Improve the prognosis of the injury 
  • Develop a nutritional strategy to meet the changing nutritional requirements during the injury period
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A unique, key and decisive training experience to boost your professional development”

Advanced Master's Degree in Comprehensive Sports Nutrition

Due to the energy expenditure that athletes face because of the high-performance training in which they participate, having a proper diet is essential to maintain their physical and health conditions in an optimal state. This makes that the assistance of competent professionals in the sports field becomes a necessity to guide the nutritional process of the patient, in addition to ensuring a high-quality experience in which the necessary nutrients are received, both for energy intake and for the repair of muscle tissue. At TECH Technological University we developed the Advanced Master's Degree in Comprehensive Sports Nutrition, a postgraduate program specifically designed so that you can expand your knowledge in order to improve your counseling programs and complement them from a global vision that unifies dietary advice with exercise. In this way, in order to provide the greatest number of benefits, you will be able to provide athletes with work plans adapted to the intensity of the exercises, the physical characteristics, and the sports goals of their routine.

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Our Advanced Master's Degree, presented in a 100% online format, will give you access to the most relevant topics and procedures in the field of clinical sports nutrition in order to acquire the knowledge and competencies needed in your daily clinical practice. You will integrate different methods of body recomposition with the aim of adapting the patient's weight and fat percentage to the sport they practice; you will detect possible nutritional deficits and states of overtraining, and you will establish dietary strategies according to the new requirements that appear during the period of injury or muscle recovery. In this way, you will manage the most advanced knowledge for the nutritional planning of professional and non-professional athletes, with which you will be able to guarantee the performance of physical exercise in a healthy way. Study now at the largest Faculty of Medicine and start optimizing the experience of your clients in their sports processes.