Sport and Exercise Nutrition

Nutrition influences nearly every process in the body involved in energy production and recovery, therefore playing an essential role in sport and exercise. It is essential for health, physical activity and exercise, weight maintenance and exercise performance. To apply the principles of sport nutrition, it is essential you have a basic understanding of biochemical and physiological processes that occur in the body.

The short video below was created by the Sport an Exercise Nutrition Register and shows one way in which nutrition is being applied in practice; the use of supplementation within sport.