Title: Explain the relationship between nutrition and injury, illness, and health conditions.
Course: Sports Medicine/Athletic Training I (14062-I) > Section: Understanding Nutrition

Explanation should include the impact of nutrition on

- injuries (e.g., dehydration, fractures, cramping, strain)
- illness (e.g., diabetes, cardiovascular disease)
- health conditions (e.g., obesity, osteoporosis, hormone imbalance).

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the long-term consequences, from an injury/illness perspective, of taking anabolic steroids, “nutritional” supplements, and other ergogenic aids?
- What role do age, gender, socioeconomic, and ethnicity play when evaluating nutritional considerations to prevent or address injury or illness?

NASM-Certified Personal Trainer

Chapter 16 Chronic Health Conditions and Physical or Functional Limitations

- Define and describe the cause and symptoms of selected chronic health conditions.
- Describe the characteristics of selected health and age-related physical and functional limitations to exercise.
- Recognize how the conditions discussed in this chapter affect exercise training variables within the OPT™ model.
- Recognize how acute and chronic responses to exercise vary in clients with chronic health conditions or physical or functional limitations compared with apparently healthy clients.
- Describe how to modify program design for clients with chronic health and physical or functional limitations.

Appendix E

- Review fitness assessment considerations.
- Review concepts for program design.
- Describe hydration concepts.
- Identify fitness technologies and trends.
- Describe behavior change strategies for client results.
- Describe exam taking best practices and preparation.

Chapter 1 The Scientific Rationale for Integrated Thinking

- Explain the history of the profession of personal training.
- Identify common characteristics of personal training clients.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of integrated exercise program design.
- Describe the Optimum Performance Training (OPT™) model.

Chapter 17 Nutrition

- Describe the macronutrients and their functions.
- Describe how the macronutrient composition of an individual’s food intake can affect satiety, compliance, daily energy expenditure, and weight control.
- Provide basic nutritional recommendations for optimizing health.
- Answer questions, handle issues, and dispel myths regarding the relationship of macronutrients to the successful alteration of body composition.