Nutrition for Sports Performance
UndergraduateLTU-DTN3082025
Weigh up the nutritional demands of athletes. Isolate nutrition’s role in muscle gain or fat loss and optimising performance. Tackle subjects like sports supplements, fluid intake and the nutritional challenges that can affect older active individuals.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 24 Aug 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025,
- 1 Sept 2025
- Price from
- $1,164
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Nutrition for Sports Performance
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Evaluate and assess the nutritional demands of athletic performance in a variety of sports and life stages.
- Assess and apply evidence-based literature regarding current issues and practices in sports nutrition.
- Appraise and critique the evidence and application of food, supplements and sports foods to athletes in a variety of sports and life stages.
- Demonstrate well developed literacy and communication skills suitable for a variety of key stakeholders and audiences.
- Demonstrate an understanding of professional scope of practice in relation to nutrition and where referral to other health professionals is warranted.
- Introduction to Sports Nutrition
- Exercise Physiology and Metabolism; Energy Systems
- Energy Requirements and Estimating Energy Expenditure
- Macronutrient Requirements
- Hydration
- Training and Competition Demands in Various Sports
- Sports Foods, Supplements and Ergogenic Aids
In this subject you will learn the essentials of human nutrition that improve and sustain optimal performance for sport and exercise for athletes and active individuals. This subject will cover topics including assessment of energy needs, dietary intake and body composition in athletes; training and competition nutrition, sports foods and supplements; nutrition for specific sports and life stages and current issues in sports nutrition.
- 1 x 45-minute online quiz (30%)
- 1750 word assignment, comprising 500 word literature review (15%) and remaining 1250 word assignment worth 30%. The first part worth 15% comprises the early assessment piece that will occur within the first three weeks of the teaching period. (45%)
- Sports Food review Report 1 x 750 word individual report (25%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- LAT-HUN-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Food and Nutrition
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
and one of
LTU-HBS102 (Not currently available)
- LTU-HBS1HBB-Human Biosciences B
and one of
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: HBFN
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed DTN3SPN (Sports Nutrition) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - A good internet connection is required due to online delivery.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Food and Nutrition
UndergraduateLAT-HUN-DEG