Physical Education

This course focuses on the basics of nutrition and exercise for health and wellbeing, teaching the fundamentals of designing exercise and physical activity programs and using nutrition to enhance exercise and sports performance. It develops an understanding of how exercise and nutrition relate to health outcomes, including the role of diet in chronic disease and obesity. 

This course provides an in-depth understanding of strategies, and their physiological underpinnings, to improve sports performance in athletes. This involves both acute strategies (i.e., methods immediately before or during competition) and prolonged interventions (e.g., intensified training, tapering and hypoxia) that can enhance performance in already well-trained individuals.