Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Performance

Adrienne Forsyth is an Associate Professor and Research Lead in Nutrition and Dietetics at Australian Catholic University, Australia. She is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian, Advanced Accredited Sports Dietitian, and Accredited Exercise Physiologist with over two decades of experience in teaching, practice, and research. Adrienne leads community-based interventions that address nutrition-related chronic disease and facilitate healthy participation in sport and recreation as well as innovations in health professional education. Evangeline Mantzioris is the Program Director of the Nutrition and Food Sciences Degree at the University of South Australia. She is a Senior Lecturer, Accredited Practicing Dietitian, and Accredited Sports Dietitian with over three decades of experience in research, university teaching, clinical dietetics, and clinical teaching at major teaching hospitals and in private practice. Evangeline’s research interests include sports nutrition, fats, fatty acids, Mediterranean Diet, and the environment–food nexus. Regina Belski is a Professor and Discipline Lead for Food, Nutrition and Dietetics at La Trobe University, Australia. Regina is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and Advanced Sports Dietitian. Regina specialises in a personalised nutrition approach for health and performance, this entails exploring factors which impact individuals’ dietary intakes and health outcomes, including modifiable factors such as nutrition knowledge, behaviour, and more advanced fields such as nutrigenomics and variation of gene expression via dietary means as well as functional foods for human health and the microbiome. In her professional capacity as an Accredited Practising Dietitian, Regina has worked with clients including Olympic athletes and elite football and soccer players.

Part I: The science of nutrition and sport. 1. Introduction to sport and exercise. 2. Energy for sport and exercise. 3. Digestion and absorption. 4. Macronutrients. 5. Micronutrients and antioxidants. 6. Translating nutrition: From nutrients to foods. 7. Dietary intake and energy availability. 8. Dietary assessment. Part II: Nutrition for exercise. 9. Exercise nutrition. 10. Macronutrient periodisation. 11. Hydration. 12. Sports supplements. 13. Assessing and changing body composition. 14. Environmental considerations. 15. Gastrointestinal disturbances. 16. Injury management and rehabilitation. Part III: Applied sports nutrition. 17. Endurance athletes. 18. Strength and power athletes. 19. Team sport athletes. 20. Weight category and aesthetic sport athletes. 21. Contemporary sport athletes. 22. Occupational athletes in the military. 23. Young athletes. 24. Masters athletes. 25. Female athletes. 26. Para athletes. 27. Travelling athletes. 28. The art of sports nutrition practice.