Nutrient Timing Online CE Exam With Print Book

This package includes the following:

• Nutrient Timing book
• Online continuing education exam

Nutrient Timing: Fueling Strategies to Unlock Peak Performance gives science-backed advice translated into practical recommendations to help optimize training, boost performance, and accelerate recovery. You’ll learn why nutrient timing matters and how to identify specific timing needs for your clients and athletes. Find carbohydrate, protein, fat, fluid, and supplement recommendations—for before, during, and after training or competition—applicable to a wide range of schedules, activity levels, and sports. Use the sample nutrition plans and case studies for various sports and real-world situations to help facilitate the implementation of those recommendations. Get time-saving food prep and meal planning tips to help your busy athletes keep their unique nutrition plans on track. You'll also learn nutrient timing strategies for clients working to gain muscle, lose fat, or recover from an injury.

Let Nutrient Timing be your guide to the ideal types of nutrients to consume, their quantities, and their optimal timing to enable your clients to perform to the best of their ability and achieve their goals.

After reading the book, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the importance of nutrient timing for athletic performance.
• Identify athletes’ timing needs to support their performance goals.
• Calculate specific energy needs by estimating total daily energy expenditure.
• Differentiate types of carbohydrate and how they fuel performance.
• Determine carbohydrate needs based on exercise intensity and volume.
• Apply carbohydrate timing for before, during, and after workouts.
• Identify types and sources of protein for recovery.
• Determine protein needs for athletes.
• Apply protein timing for before, during, and after workouts.
• Identify types and sources of dietary fat.
• Recommend a daily amount of fat intake as a percentage of the athlete’s total calories.
• Differentiate water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins and their functions.
• Compare minerals, and recognize their functions for performance goals.
• Explain the level at which dehydration begins to negatively affect performance.
• Apply fluid intake timing for before, during, and after workouts.
• Recognize the role of electrolytes in hydration for performance.
• Evaluate common supplements, and determine their safe dosing and timing for effectiveness.
• Plan nutrition strategies for before, during, and after training and competition.
• Create an effective nutrition plan specifically for endurance athletes.
• Create an effective nutrition plan specifically for strength, power, and team sport athletes.
• Adjust nutrition plans based on special considerations or performance goals.
• Develop strategies to solve common nutrition challenges for busy athletes.

Audience

Certified fitness professionals, including nutrition professionals, personal trainers, and performance coaches.

Part I. Foundations of Effective Fueling
Chapter 1. Not What? but When?: Why Nutrient Timing Matters
Chapter 2. Identify Your Timing Needs
Chapter 3. Go Harder for Longer With Carbohydrates
Chapter 4. Recover Faster With Protein
Chapter 5. Meet Energy Needs With Fat
Chapter 6. Elevate Performance With Vitamins and Minerals
Chapter 7. Sustain High Performance With Hydration
Chapter 8. Gain the Edge With Supplements

Part II. Fine-Tune Your Fueling for Any Schedule
Chapter 9. Strategies for Training and Competition
Chapter 10. Endurance Training and Competition
Chapter 11. Strength, Power, and Team Sport Training and Competition
Chapter 12. Special Considerations
Chapter 13. Prep and Plan Ahead

Lauren Link, MS, RD, CSSD, is an assistant athletics director and the director of sports nutrition for Purdue University Athletics, where she oversees the sports nutrition program and works with football, men’s basketball, volleyball, and women’s soccer. Her primary duties include providing individual and team nutrition education; providing counseling and medical nutrition therapy as needed; evaluating supplements for legality, safety, and efficacy; assessing body composition and identifying athletes at high risk for bone injury using Lunar iDXA technology; overseeing the fueling stations and athletic dining hall; and managing a seven-figure budget to provide all teams with appropriate nutrition.

In addition to fueling her athletes for success on the playing field, she is also passionate about helping athletes successfully navigate the transition into the real world. She has led multiple initiatives to this end, founding the Purdue student-athlete community garden and spearheading a program called BLAST—for Boiler Life After Sport—designed to help address key components of athletes’ transition to “normal” life. In 2017 she published her first book on the subject: The Healthy Former Athlete.

Link graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor of science degree in dietetics and health, nutrition, and fitness (December 2011) and a master of science degree in health and kinesiology (December 2019). She was a member of Purdue women’s soccer team from 2007 through 2011 and was part of the 2007 Big Ten tournament championship team. She is a registered dietitian (RD) and holds the Board-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD) credential. She is active within the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association (CPSDA) and is a member of the Sports and Human Performance Nutrition (SHPN) practice group.