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Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
SP114.02Elective125
Level of Course Unit
Short Cycle
Objectives of the Course
Objectives of the course are to comprehend basic nutrition principals for health, to explain carbohydrate, protein, fats, water, vitamins, minerals, and their importance on sportive performance, to teach special diets applications and its’ reasons, nutritional ergogenic aids, and antioxidant nutrition principles, to conceive energy balance for body weight control, basal metabolic rate and daily caloric assessment.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Öğr. Gör. Onur AKMAN
Learning Outcomes
1Understanding basic nutrition principals;
2Ability to explain basic and auxiliary nutrients and their digestive processes
3Ability to define the basic chemical properties and sources of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, minerals and water, and the consequences of deficiency and excess in the body.
4Understanding the importance of basic and auxiliary nutrients in sports performance
5Conceiving different nutrition methods practices at before, during and after various sporting races and exercises and its’ application reasons;
6To be able to learn nutritional ergogenic aids, their usage patterns, positive and negative effects, and to understand the principles of antioxidant nutrition.
7Explaining body mass index on achieving weight control and describing of some body composition measuring methods
Mode of Delivery
Normal Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Basic nutrition principals, basic (carbohydrate, protein, fats) and supporter (vitamins, minerals and water) foods and their importance and application designs, special diets for athletes, body weight control and energy balance, daily caloric assessment Haftalık Ayrıntılı Ders İçeriği
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Conceptions of nutrient and nutrition, importance of nutrition on sportive performance, demonstrating of nutrition pyramid, introducing basic and supporter foods, basic nutritional needs for health and for athletes.
2Process of energy transformation of foods, introducing energy systems (ATP-PCr, glycolytic, and oxidative pathways) during resting period, exercise and recovery.
3Carbohydrate metabolism, food sources, classifications, conception of glycemic index, effects on muscle glycogen storage and sportive performance of simple and complex carbohydrates
4Ingestion of proposed carbohydrate before, during and after exercise and usage reasons, supplemental carbohydrate for endurance athletes, beverages with carbohydrate
5Fats; digestion process, functions, sources, daily consumptions, classifications, trans oils, omega 3-6, lipoproteins and CHD interactions, positive effects of exercise on CHD
6Proteins; digestion process, functions, sources, daily consumptions, classifications, excessive and inadequate consumption, aminoacid metabolism, supplemental protein usage methods and usage amounts.
7Vitamins; digestion process, functions, sources, daily consumptions, classifications, excessive and inadequate consumption, functions and requirements in exercise.
8Midterm Exam
9Minerals; digestion process, functions, sources, daily consumptions, classifications, excessive and inadequate consumption, functions and requirements in exercise.
10Water, digestion process, functions, sources, daily consumptions, classifications, dehydration and rehydration, functions and requirements in exercise.
11Nutrition principles before competition for various sporting branch, special diets for athletes
12Nutrition principles during competition for various sporting branch, its’ actions on body, nutrition strategies after competition, nutrition for athletes in heat
13Conception of energy balance on achieving weight control and effects on health, daily caloric calculation
14Conception of resting metabolic rate, thermic effect of physical activity and thermic effect of a meal, body mass index, and some measuring methods of body composition
15Nutritional ergogenic aids in sports (aminoacid, BZAA, arginine, bicarbonate, caffeine, L-carnitine, CLA, creatin) utilization methods, negative and positive effects, antioxidant nutrition aspects
16Final Exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Paker S. Nutrition in Sports, Onay Ajans, Ankara, 1998 (4. Baskı) Ersoy G. Egzersiz ve Spor Yapanlar için Beslenme, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, Ankara, 2004 (3. Baskı) Wolinsky I, Driskell JA. Sports Nutrition, CRC Press- Taylor&Francis Group, USA, 2008 Eberle SG. Endurans Sports Nutrition, Human Kinetics, USA, 2000
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination122
Attending Lectures14342
Individual Study for Mid term Examination7535
Individual Study for Final Examination14570
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)150
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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LO1243231
LO2522311
LO3251132
LO4315221
LO5123521
LO6123154
LO7211325
* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High