High-Performance Nutrition for Masters Athletes Online CE Exam

This product is delivered online:

• Continuing education exam
• NOTE: The text High-Performance Nutrition for Masters Athletes is required for successful completion of this exam but is not included in this version. Purchase this version only if you already own the text or ebook.

Consisting of 50 multiple-choice and true-false questions, this continuing education exam is designed to be taken after reading High-Performance Nutrition for Masters Athletes. The exam will test your knowledge of the information presented in the book, so you can uncover and understand the principles of fueling Masters clients.

Learning Objectives
After reading the book and successfully completing the 50-question multiple-choice and true-false exam, you will be able to do the following:

• Describe the changing nutritional needs of Masters athletes as they age.
• Define sarcopenia.
• Understand the role of hormones in appetite and overall nutrition.
• Describe how nutrition can help aging adults to reduce the risks of developing diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.
• Interpret research findings that are relevant for Masters athletes’ nutritional choices.
• Summarize the appropriate carbohydrate, protein, fat, and fluid intake levels for Masters athletes before, during, and after exercise or competition.
• Discuss the possible benefits and appropriateness of supplement use for certain populations.
• Recognize the signs of disordered eating and eating disorders as well as the side effects of underfueling.
• Describe appropriate precompetition, competition-day, and recovery fueling requirements and timing for Masters athletes.

Audience

A continuing education course for coaches, sport nutritionists, personal trainers, or athletic trainers working with aging athletes.

Lauren Antonucci, RDN, CSSD, CDE, CDN, is the owner and director of Nutrition Energy, where she creates individualized plans that fit the lifestyle of each client, helps them develop a healthy relationship with food and their bodies, and guides them to reach their nutrition and health goals. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN), is certified by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics as a specialist in sports dietetics (CSSD), and is certified by the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators as a diabetes educator (CDE).

Antonucci has been running, swimming, and cycling for as long as she can remember and has completed 13 marathons (PR 3:09), three Ironman Triathlons, and countless other running and triathlon races. She is a sought-after presenter on the topic of sports nutrition and hydration, and she has presented at many professional conferences, including American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), USA Triathlon International Coaching Symposium, the Greater New York Dietetic Association (GNYDA), and many New York Road Runners (NYRR) events and New York City Marathon Expos. She has also presented to numerous collegiate athletic teams, most running and triathlon teams and clubs in New York City, and many corporate organizations.

Antonucci wrote a nutrition column for Triathlete magazine for three years and wrote for New York Road Runners magazine for over a decade. She has appeared on several television programs to provide practical advice on a wide array of nutrition and health topics, and her advice has also been featured in Runner’s World, Ironmanlive.com, NYTimes.com, Diabetes Self-Management, Time Out New York, Metrosports, and many other publications.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychobiology from Binghamton University, was awarded a fellowship in nutritional biochemistry at University of California at Berkeley, and earned a master’s degree in clinical nutrition from New York University. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children and is a proud Masters athlete.