NutritioN fit “The specific cardiovascular

benefits are extremely attractive to the fitness enthusiast and more conditioned athlete”

If you are offering nutritional advice to your clients, appropriately trained level 3 instructors can analyse nutritional needs and preferences, identify and agree nutritional advice compatible with this analysis and accepted good practice, taking account of national guidelines. In doing so you should seek and make use of credible sources of nutritional information and integrate the nutritional strategy effectively into the rest of the physical activity programme. You should ensure clients understand and follow the nutritional advice and evaluate and review client progress towards their nutritional goals, monitoring and refining nutritional goals within the physical activity programme where necessary. And of course you must work within professional role boundaries and know the appropriate procedures for referral to a State Registered Dietitian or other appropriately qualified health professional should this be required, such as disclosure of an eating disorder or poorly controlled diabetes.

In my experience, from a healthy eating perspective, clients know what they should be doing; what they require is some support when they are not doing it. Exploring with them when, where and why they eat and broader factors that affect their food intake and choice may

be more beneficial than time spent

educating them on the healthy eating principles themselves.

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