Course

Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
PRNU-0001
Version:
2
Organization:
Precision Nutrition
Location:
Online
Length:
20 weeks (70 hours)
Minimum Passing Score:
75
ACE Credit Recommendation Period:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Introduction to Fitness and Wellness
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to teach the advanced nutrition know-how coaches need to work with clients who benefit from greater dietary precision. The course blends nutritional science and coaching and incorporates insights from change psychology.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand how the body works.
  • Discuss a host of nutritional issues intelligently.
  • Convey to clients a deep knowledge of the subjects for which they are being helped with.
  • Integrate effective nutrition coaching principles in practice.
  • Troubleshoot based on physiological considerations.
  • Develop assessment and nutritional planning skills based on client assessment and outcomes.
  • Identify which progress indicators to measure, have the skills to track them, and the strategies to optimize a nutritional plan based on those measures.

General Topics:

  • The Precision Nutrition approach
  • What is a great coach?
  • Helping people change
  • What is good nutrition?
  • Introduction to nutritional science
  • Systems and cells
  • Through the GI tract
  • Energy transformation and metabolism
  • Energy balance
  • Macronutrients
  • Micronutrients
  • Water and fluid balance
  • Stress, recovery, and sleep
  • Coaching in practice
  • Working with clients
  • Business 101 for fitness and nutrition pros
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Computer Based Training

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Quizzes
Supplemental Materials
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