Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Nutrition and Fitness Science from the National Academy of Sports Medicine

Discover the science behind nutrition and exercise. Master the knowledge and skills needed to identify the nutritional and exercise interventions needed for specific fitness goals.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת במדע התזונה והכושר של National Academy of Sports Medicine

Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Nutrition Coach
  • Metabolic Weight Measurement (MET)
  • Types of diet
  • Energy consumption and expenditure
  • Nutritional interventions
  • Dietary fat intake guidelines
  • Nutritional science
  • Healthy eating
  • Matching diet and exercise
  • Weight management

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Personal trainer
  • Nutrition consultant
  • Fitness trainer
  • Sports nutrition expert
  • Sports Team Guide
  • Health and Fitness Programs Manager
  • Nutrition guide
  • Health coach

Internship – Series of 3 courses

Changing your health

  • Getting to where you want to be requires an effective training plan.
  • A nutrition plan that will support your goals.
  • A combination of diet and exercise to maximize efforts.
  • Become the best version of yourself.

NASM Nutrition and Exercise Science

  • Learning to create the foundations for an effective plan.
  • A combination of nutrition and physical activity.
  • Achieving the desired results.

Understanding the connections

  • Between fats and metabolism.
  • Consuming proper nutrition to support training.
  • Adjusting lifestyle to achieve goals.

Implementing nutrition and exercise research

  • Gain knowledge to guide yourself.
  • Insist on those around you.
  • Achieving the desired goals.

Hands-on Learning Project

  • Acquire knowledge and skills to identify optimal nutritional strategies.
  • Supporting key training and performance requirements.
  • In-depth understanding of energy consumption and energy expenditure.
  • Roles and functions of fat consumption.
  • Functions of different energy pathways.
  • Developing an effective fitness program.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Metabolic regulator

  • Course 1
  • Hours: 2
  • Rating: 4.5 (80 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Learn about the biochemical processes we call metabolism to keep the human body alive.
  • Compare different approaches to tracking calorie intake and energy expenditure requirements.
  • Discover the static and dynamic components of metabolism and how they affect weight loss.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Nutritional Training
  • Category: Metabolic Analog Measurement (MET)
  • Category: Caloric expenditure calculation/estimation
  • Category: Metabolic process
  • Category: Strategies to Increase Metabolic Rate

Science of lipid metabolism

  • Course 2
  • Hours: 3
  • Rating: 4.4 (33 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Learn about the impact of lipid metabolism in situations of acute and chronic stress.
  • Compare different types of fats in the body.
  • Determine the role of dietary fat and its function in the body.
  • Learn about the current guidelines for fat intake.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Nutritional Training
  • Category: Types of fats
  • Category: Fat Consumption Guidelines
  • Category: Fat metabolism
  • Category: Healthy Fat Sources

Adjusting nutrition and training

  • Course 3
  • Hours: 3
  • Rating: 4.9 (34 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • The compatibility between different nutritional archetypes and training programs.
  • Learn which macronutrients are best for specific types of training.
  • Compare energy pathways, their functions, and how they use macronutrients for fuel.
  • Learn the key principles of energy systems in the human body.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Macronutrient composition
  • Category: Nutritional Training
  • Category: Nutritional Interventions
  • Category: Nutrition and Training Adjustment
  • Category: Principles of Energy Systems

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