Sports Nutrition Exam 1 Study Guide Exam Questions And Actual Answers.
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What is the definition of scope of practice? - Answer Helps establish professional boundaries by outlining the skills, responsibilities, and accepted activities of practitioners
What is an athlete? - Answer A person who participates in a sport
What are the differences between elite, col...
Sports Nutrition Exam 1 Study Guide
Exam Questions And Actual Answers.
What is the definition of scope of practice? - Answer Helps establish professional boundaries by
outlining the skills, responsibilities, and accepted activities of practitioners
What is an athlete? - Answer A person who participates in a sport
What are the differences between elite, collegiate, and recreational athletes? - Answer Elite athletes:
profession is athletic competition; exceptionally skilled; dedicated to training; plan lives around training
and competition
Collegiate athletes: trained athletes; level of training is less than elite athletes; dedicated to improve or
maintain performance
Recreational athletes: many train little; participate to be physically athletic, to maintain a healthy
lifestyle, or for enjoyment and not to improve performance
What are the differences between physical activity, exercise, and sport? - Answer Physical activity:
bodily movement that results in an increase in energy expenditure above resting level (Daily activities:
bathing, walking the dog, raking leaves, or carrying a bag of groceries)
Exercise: subset of physical activity; "physical activity that is planned, structured, repetitive, and
purposive in the sense that improvement or maintenance of one or more components of physical fitness
is the key" (running-improves cardiovascular fitness)
Sport: competitive physical fitness-Running as a sport (track, cross country)
What is the definition of Sports Nutrition? - Answer The application of nutrition and exercise
physiology principles to support and enhance training, performance, and recovery
, What are the basic Training and Nutrition Principles? - Answer a. Principle of progressive overload
b. Principle of individuality
c. Principle of specificity
d. Principle of hard/easy
e. Principle of periodization
f. Principle of disuse
What is the Principle of Periodization and why is it good to use with athletes? - Answer Programs are
arranged according to different time periods. (Long distance runners focus on running longer distances
for aerobic capacity and endurance and run short distances to work on speed
What is a Macrocycle? - Answer An overall time period that begins at the onset of training and includes
the time leading up to a specific athletic goal
What is a Mesocycle? - Answer Macrocycles are subdivided into mesocycles, each having a specific
training purpose
What is a Microcycle? - Answer Mesocycles are made up of microcycles, which are repeated time
intervals
What are the Basic Nutrition Guidelines? Explain each one. - Answer • Energy (calories): An adequate
amount of energy is needed to support training and performance and to maintain good health.
Adjustments to energy intake for the purpose of weight or fat loss should be made slowly and started
early enough in the training process
• Carbohydrates: Intake of 3-12 g of carbs per kg of body weight per day
• Proteins: 1.2-1.7 g of protein per kg of body weight per day
• Fats: 20-35 percent of total calories
• Fibers: DRI
• Vitamins: DRI
• Minerals: DRI
• Electrolytes (sodium & potassium): DRI
• Water: Balanced
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