Students learn about:

• Nutritional considerations
  • Pre-performance, including carbohydrate loading
  • During performance
  • Post-performance
    
    
• Supplementation
  • Vitamins/minerals
  • Protein
  • Caffeine
  • Creatine products
    
    
• Recovery strategies
  • Physiological strategies, eg cool down, hydration
  • Neural strategies, eg hydrotherapy, massage
  • Tissue damage strategies, eg cryotherapy
  • Psychological strategies, eg relaxation.

Students learn to:

• compare the dietary requirements of athletes in different sports considering pre-, during and post-performance needs
• critically analyse the evidence for and against supplementation for improved performance
• research recovery strategies to discern their main features and proposed benefits to performance.

Extract from PDHPE Stage 6 Syllabus. © 2009 Board of Studies NSW.