Sports Nutrition for Athletes and Fitness Enthusiasts (Udemy.com)
Learn all about sports nutrition with 7 hours of online video content and start training SMARTER instead of HARDER.
Created by: Jurgen Swinckels
Last updated December 2022
What you will learn
- You will learn the basics of sports nutrition including macronutrients, micronutrients, sports specific nutrition and supplements.
- You will learn that by managing your nutrition you will largely enhance the outcome of your exercise efforts.
- You will learn how to determine your own nutrition strategy, rehydration requirements and supplement needs.
- You will learn that a rock-solid nutrition strategy is not only about eating the RIGHT foods. It’s also about WHEN to eat them.
- You will learn what whole foods you should eat to meet your macro and micronutrient requirements.
- You will learn how to defeat the supplement FAKE NEWS machine, powered by supplement producers.
- You will learn all about effective fueling methods that help you achieve your personal best in your next endurance race.
- You will learn about the one critical reason why energy drinks will NOT help you on race day.
How it compares
Against the other 662 rated Udemy courses in Health & Fitness on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 49% of them
- Reviews448#249 of 663 by number of reviews
- Length7 hourslonger than 84% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2022earlier than 66% of them
Course Description
Did you know that research by the University of South Carolina revealed that 91% of athletes and 63% of coaches have little knowledge about sports nutrition?
And indeed, most athletes and fitness enthusiasts are rushing through their daily exercise routine without even knowing the basic difference between proteins and carbs.
But conducting purposeful physical exercise without sports nutrition knowledge is like running around in a dark forest. Blindfolded.
And because those athletes and fitness enthusiasts reach far-from optimal results they are trying to compensate their knowledge BLIND SPOT by turning to crazy expensive supplements that hardly ever work.
That made me realize there is a massive need for practical, easy to understand fundamental sports nutrition learning, so I decided to establish the School of Sports Nutrition.
Our comprehensive course is turning completely uninformed athletes and fitness enthusiasts into knowledgeable sportspersons allowing each and every one of them to adapt and fine-tune their diets and see their exercise performance improve without ever increasing training time.
So take off that blindfold, click on the purple ‘ADD TO CART’ button and enroll in our exciting new course: SPORTS NUTRITION FOR ATHLETES AND FITNESS ENTHUSIASTS. Join us straightaway and start building your sports nutrition knowledge from zero to hero level.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
448 Reviews
Jurgen Swinckels
Actually to be honest, I don’t like bio's written in third person but since I have this lovely bio that was written for me for a conference, I’ve decided to just go with it:
Jurgen holds a graduate degree in food & agriculture from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, which includes a Certificate in Nutrition, Exercise and Sports.
He is also a certified sports nutritionist with the American Fitness Professionals & Associates (AFPA), and holds sport nutrition certificates from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the US National Federation of State High School Associations (NFSH), and Ironman University. Finally he has obtained a certificate in sports nutrition for football from Barça Universitas and he is a certified race director with USA Triathlon.
Besides his theoretical background Jurgen has gained a great deal of practical understanding of the impact of sports nutrition on physical performance, because he has been an active athlete throughout his live. He has practiced and/or competed in a wide range of sports varying from horse show jumping, field hockey, snowboarding and windsurfing to running, inline skating, mountain biking and triathlon. He completed a bunch of Half and Full marathons and countless Olympic distance triathlons and duathlons. Jurgen finished 3 full Ironman races, over 30 Half Ironman races and he qualified for the World Championship Ironman 70.3 in 2010.
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Reviews
By Carmel Thompson on 8/25/2026
I’m really glad that I took this course. It was easy and super fun to learn all about nutrition as I am a fitness enthusiast and currently have kids who play multi sport and being able to help them with their nutrition is so crucial for me as they are growing athletes! Thank you so much!
By Kenny Chandra on 3/21/2024
This is not what I expected when joining the course at all. I feel like the delivery is very boring and it feels like he's just reading from texts. It kinda feels back in high school all over again, which is not a great feeling. I was expecting something more visually appealing and way more to the point like if you talk about heat, why does it matter and why should I care? Instead of throwing me with a bunch of useless definitions that I will forget in 5 minutes... Not relatable at all considering this should be courses for athlete that want to improve their performance, not a biology class.
By Piyush Aggarwal on 9/17/2023
Wonderful and insightful knowledge about the field of nutrition. Really like the course with very practical information about the macronutrients/vitamins & minerals.
By Prashant Wadekar on 8/28/2023
Hi, I have started my body building just a 2.5 months back, looking for a knowledge wrt nutrition found Information is too comprehensive (Thanks for that), sometimes as a layman it will get bit lengthy but the tests papers provided found useful going to use it for sure. Cheers team SSN.
By Elena Gilda Enache PFA on 5/2/2023
The best training on sports nutrition i have ever taken: it’s well documented and well explained, graphs and examples are a big plus. Jurgen is very charismatic and a pleasure to listen to. Thank you !
By Hanseen wang on 10/9/2022
I like the way the classes are presented, well structured and clearly delivered. And for someone who has limited knowledge about nutrition like me, this is very helpful.
By Glenn Jeffery on 6/14/2022
For any sports man or athletes, the course is jam-packed with extraordinary detail and scientific facts. The course design is versatile due to the abundance of useful data points in each section. I'm grateful to the instructor for providing such a valuable learning opportunity.
By Christopher Dale on 4/12/2022
This was an excellent course on sports nutrition. I learned a lot. The instructor seems very knowledgeable and the course content was easy to follow. I recommend this course to anyone interested in nutrition. Thanks
By Ashraful Islam on 11/16/2021
The course was very informative for me as a beginner into sports nutrition. I have started understanding what I should be consuming on a day to day basis and starting to follow it slowly. Thanks to Jurgen for designing such a wonderful course and for making sports nutrition look simple.
By Jui Mallick on 11/15/2021
This course is very informative. i m really glad that i choose Jurgen as my instructor. If you are willing to buy this course then you are make a really good decision.
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Overall Score : 92 / 100






