Facultative subject for students of the Faculty of Physical Education: “The basis of nutrition in sport”

The period of studying at a higher school is the time of creating new behavioral patterns. Separation from parents and the infuence of a new social environment both contribute to the changes in our behavior including our nutritional habits. Five-year experience of conducting the authorial facultative subject entitled ‘The basis of nutrition in sport’ has shown its efectiveness in creating proper diets in sport. The aim of the subject, introduced during the fnal year at the Faculty of Physical Education, is to teach about proper and balanced diets and using this knowledge in order to prevent diferent body dysfunctions. It is also to teach how to work out a suitable and adequate nutritional program for a sportsman for a particular period of training or during the competitions or regeneration. Students who decide to choose the subject (usually it is the majority of groups) acquire the abilities necessary in practice and the ones which refer to solving various aspects of modern attitudes towards nutrition in sport. Each student prepares his/her own individual evaluation of the condition of nutrition on the educational platform named ‘Moodle” (e-learning). An original educational and verifying computer program is being used which is based on the students’ individual work. Their knowledge on the principles of proper nutrition is evaluated and corrected.