Food and sport must go hand in hand, as it is essential that athletes follow a proper diet to help them improve their performance" 

People who perform prolonged efforts or high intensity exercises need to have a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet that allows them to acquire the necessary nutritional components for their body. In this way, you will achieve a better performance during your sports practice.  

Sports Science professionals who develop their activity in the field of advising athletes should not only have extensive knowledge in the field of exercise program design, but also in the field of nutrition, since it is the combination of both that will allow to obtain better results in the athlete. And, therefore, with this Advanced Master’s Degree we want to offer you the most complete training in the field, with which you will obtain a superior specialization that will allow you to develop not only with elite professionals, but also with the multitude of amateur athletes who have emerged in recent years, and who demand specialists in this sector to help them improve their physical conditions.   

This Program offers the possibility to deepen and update knowledge in Sports Nutrition, with the use of the latest educational technology. It offers a global vision of sports nutrition while focusing on the most important and innovative aspects: invisible training or adequate diet for athletes, and nutrition before, during, and after exercise. 

The program includes information related to professionals with different personal situations and different sports activities, specifying in each case the best dietary recommendations, so that you have a complete knowledge that allows you to adapt to each user during the development of your daily practice. 

In this sense, we will not only take you through the theoretical knowledge we offer, but we will show you another way of studying and learning, more organic, simpler and more efficient. We will work to keep you motivated and to develop your passion for learning, helping you to think and develop critical thinking skills. And we will push you to think and develop critical thinking.  

And all this with the latest technologies of the moment, which will allow you to update in a comfortable and totally remote way, so that you are the only one who decides where and when to study, with total ease of organization and management of your time. This way, you will be able to easily combine your study time with the rest of your daily obligations. 

A high-level educational program, supported by advanced technological development and  the teaching experience of the best professionals"

This Advanced Master’s Degree in Comprehensive Sports Nutrition contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date academic course on the university scene. The most important features include: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software  
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by remote training
• Continuous updating and retraining systems
• Autonomous 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
• Complementary resource banks that are permanently available

An educational program created for professionals who aspire for excellence, and that will enable you to acquire new skills and strategies easily and effectively"

Our teaching staff is made up of working professionals. In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the up-to-date training we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of doctors with training and experience in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but above all, they will bring their practical knowledge from their own experience to the course.   

This command of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this Advanced Master´s Degree. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. In this way, you will be able to study with a range of easy-to-use and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the necessary skills you need for your 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, we will use telepractice learning. With the help of an innovative interactive video system and Learning from an Expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way.  

We have the best methodology, the most up-to-date syllabus and a multitude of practical cases that will help you to get qualified for success.

Identifying the nutritional needs of athletes is essential to establish balanced diets adapted to each professional"

Our objective is to prepare highly qualified professionals for work experience. An objective that is complemented, moreover, in a global manner, by promoting human development that lays the foundations for a better society. This objective is focused on helping professionals reach a much higher level of expertise and control. A goal that you can take for granted, with high intensity and precision education.   

If your goal is to acquire a qualification that will enable you to compete among the best, look no further. At TECH we have everything you need”

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 continuous education and research
• Train the professional for research in 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
• Gain the ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment
• Acquire an 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 training and learning in the field of sports nutrition, both through the contacts established with professors and professionals in the program, as well as in an autonomous way 
• 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

• 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 patient nutrition 
• Explain the correct use of ergogenic aids
• Explain the current anti-doping regulations
• Identify psychological disorders related to the practice of sport and nutrition
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the structure of skeletal muscle
• Understand in depth the functioning of skeletal muscle
• Deepen 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 overtraining states
• Interpretation of the different types of body composition in order to optimize the appropriate weight and fat percentage for the sport being practised
• Monitoring of the athlete throughout the season
• Planning of seasonal schedules according to individual requirements
• Deepen understanding of the most important characteristics of the principal watersports
• Understand the demands and requirements associated with sports activities in aquatic environments
• Distinguish between the nutritional needs of different watersports
• Differentiate between the main yield limiting factors caused by climate
• Develop an acclimatization plan appropriate to the situation given
• Deepen understanding of the physiological changes caused by high altitude
• Establish the correct individual hydration guidelines according to the climate
• Differentiate between the different types of vegetarian athletes
• Gain a 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
• Gain in-depth 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
• Study in depth the differences between the different categories of athletes and their physiological-metabolic limitations
• Determine the nutritional requirements of the different athletes 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 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
  
  

Get superior training in nutrition and apply the most appropriate diets for each athlete"