HN 280-OL – Nutrition – Fitness Nutrition Educator I ONLINE

This course will equip you with the essential knowledge and skills regarding energy balance, caloric needs, and physical activity, metabolism, and food choices. You will learn how to describe and apply widely-accepted nutritional guidelines to enhance anaerobic and aerobic athletic performance including meal composition and timing. You will learn the influences that drive food choices, analyzing nutritional guidelines and dietary systems for planning and explore the laws of thermodynamics and the role of the calorie in weight management. Additionally, you will identify and leverage current and emerging technologies to catalog daily caloric consumption, calculate caloric totals for each macronutrient, and analyze these results with published norms. This course includes a thorough review of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and the role these nutrients play in health and maximizing performance. Additionally, digestion and absorption, and exploration of metabolism, energy breakdown, energy balance, biosynthesis and storage, body composition, functional foods, and eating disorders will be explored. This course is designed for and includes the NASM Fitness Nutrition Specialist certification examination. PREREQ: HN121-OL, HN122-OL, HN155-OL, HN242-OL, HN260-OL. NASM Exam Fee $349

Fees and Tuition

• Tuition - $1080.00
• NASM Certification Fee - $349.00