Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify dietary strategies for optimising sporting performance.
- Design a diet for training.
- Identify the nutritional requirements for an athlete in training in the relevant sport.
- Identify the athlete's food likes and dislikes.
- Design an eating plan that satisfies the athlete's training needs and addresses nutritional and physiological requirements.
- Assess effectiveness of eating plan in optimising performance and modify as required.
- Modify a diet for competition and recovery.
- Identify the nutritional requirements for an athlete in competition and recovery in the relevant sport.
- Identify and analyse sources of information on the benefits of carbohydrate loading for competition and recovery.
- Identify and analyse sources of information on pre-competition foods and the timing of pre-competition meals for the relevant sport.
- Assess and modify an eating plan according to nutritional requirements for competition and recovery
- Evaluate effectiveness of eating plan in assisting in the preparation for and recovery from event.