Contents: 

- Nutrition for energy balance, sport and performance 

- Nutrition for endurance sports and training adaptation 

- Nutrition for strength sports and training adaptation 

- Nutrition for team and game sports 

- Sports supplements and ergogenic agents 

- Sport and nutrition: theory and practice 

- Designing and implementing evidence based interventions 

You will first learn about nutrition for energy balance, sports and performance and training adaptation. In addition, you will learn about the physiological demands of sport and investigate current nutritional behavior and the factors that positively and negatively influence nutritional behavior of the sports team/organization. Then through education, coaching, evaluation and adjustment to achieve a sustainable change in nutritional behavior, exercise behavior and/or lifestyle, to improve sports performance. 

• Determine nutritional needs of athletes and how these differ per sport and per individual. 

• Determine nutritional intake and nutritional assessment of athletes. 

• Creating a nutrition plan for athletes for both the short and long term. 

• Designing, implementing and evaluating nutrition plans for athletes from different sports. 

• Research how to entice people who are currently inactive and have unhealthy lifestyles to participate in sports. 

• Apply scientific knowledge in a sports setting. 

• Be able to synthesise and critically evaluate literature and translate it into practical recommendations. 

• Design, implement and evaluate nutrition education for athletes, coaches and teams. 

• Be able to independently review international literature related to human exercise performance and (sports) nutrition and translate scientific findings into practical recommendations. 

• Applying scientific knowledge in a sports environment. 

The competencies and learning outcomes are at bachelor (higher professional education) level. 

Students must have completed the Propaedeutic year at least HBO level before participating. 

Aspiring students must submit their propaedeutic certificate at the start of the minor.

All the information is bundled on Bright Space.

Teaching methods: 

- Task groups 

- Tutorials 

- Lectures 

- Guest lectures 

- Practicals 

- Intervision meetings 

- Work in practice 

- Working visits in the world of sport and industry 

- Changing activities such as workshops on specific topics

Study load: 216 contact hours and 624 self-study hours  

On average 10 – 15 contact hours per week, divided over three to four half-days (mornings and/or afternoons). 27 – 32 hours of self-study per week. 

Delivered product (100%), minimum requirement for each assignment: 5.5. 

• Group assignment 1: Presentation of a Persona (30%). 

• Group assignment 2: Presentation of the choices made in the define and ideate phase towards an intervention for a sports team (30%). 

• Group assignment 3: Mini documentary of the Designed prototype group intervention, testing and evaluation, implement intervention for a sports team and a factsheet for the sports team (40%). 

Tests: 
Group assignment 1 – week 7 
Group assignment 2 -  week 12 
Group assignment 2 – week 18 
 
Retest: 
Group assignment 1 – week 10 
Group assignment 2 – week 15 
Group assignment 3 – week 19 
 
Conditional criteria: 

Demonstrable and sufficiently active participation (80%) in lessons and in all (intermediate) sprints and completion of the e-learning module is conditional to award a grade. 

Do you have any questions about this minor? Do not hesitate to contact the teacher(s).

Are you a student at The Hague University of Applied Sciences? Then you can register through Osiris.

Curious about all the KOM minors of The Hague University of Applied Sciences? You will find an overview in the KOM Minorkrant (brochure) of THUAS.