Study Guide: Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook, Sixth Edition
This continuing education activity, Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook, Sixth Edition, consists of a book of the same title and this Study Guide. This continuing education activity is designed to help you assist your clients to make healthy and informed dietary decisions that will enable them to boost their energy, lose fat, build muscle and improve their performance. It is also designed to help you earn 24 continuing education credits for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, nutrition professionals will better be able to:
1. Create a performance diet for endurance athletes, strength athletes, and team sport athletes.
2. Discuss the importance of carbohydrate for athletes and how low carbohydrate diets can impact athletic performance.
3. Apply knowledge about fluid and sodium needs during exercise to make recommendations to athletes who experience muscle cramps or feel dehydrated during their activity.
4. Assist clients in meeting recommended intakes of carbohydrate during exercise based on the type and duration of training and competition.
5. Identify the signs and symptoms of an athlete with an eating disorder
Additional Information
Marie Spano, MS, RD, CSCS, CSSD is a sports nutritionist for NFL, MLB, NBA, and MLS athletes and
nutrition communications expert. She is the lead author of the textbook Nutrition for Sport, Exercise and
Health, and co-editor of NSCA’s Guide to Sport and Exercise Nutrition.
Disclosures:
Marie Spano, faculty for this educational event, is a Consultant for NOW. All relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
The planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing,
selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patient
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company (publisher of Wolf Rinke Associates) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.
Available Credit
- 24.00 CDR