
Meet Jurgen Swindells, a Dutch-born, certified sports nutritionist, as he introduces the School of Sports Nutrition and its soccer-focused guidance for before, during, and after exercise.
Engage with this course by minimizing multitasking and following the structured, sequenced lectures; adjust playback speed, rewind when needed, apply learnings immediately, and reach out with questions.
Explore the body's energy currency, ATP, and how it powers biological processes. Learn how food energy is converted to ATP and how the body rebuilds ATP via three energy pathways.
Explain how the phosphagen system, anaerobic glycolysis, and the aerobic system jointly power soccer, with sprints fueled by the phosphagen system and endurance by aerobic glucose and glycogen breakdown.
Identify how soccer players engage energy systems across running intensities and match activity, and tailor nutrition to sustain energy stores, endurance, protein, and creatine.
explore the three lipid types—triglycerides, phospholipids, and sterols—and how dietary fats provide energy, build cell membranes, transport fats via kilo microns, and store as adipose tissue for exercise.
Learn carbohydrate guidelines for soccer players, including 4 g/kg on training days and 6 g/kg on matchdays. Compare UEFA and ACSM ranges and note gym sessions require no extra carbs.
Explore why water, though a macronutrient that provides no energy, is the most essential nutrient for football players, its roles in transport and temperature regulation, and hydration strategies during exercise.
Learn how hydration, dehydration, and sweat rate affect soccer performance, measure fluid status, calculate sweat loss, and tailor personalized hydration strategies.
Explore how hot weather affects soccer performance and how to prevent dehydration through personalized hydration strategies, emphasizing fluids, electrolytes, and carbohydrate beverages before, during, and after exercise.
Learn the difference between vitamins and minerals, that vitamins are organic and minerals are inorganic, and how macro minerals and trace elements in foods supply micronutrients for soccer players.
Explore how micronutrients like iron, vitamin d, and calcium support oxygen transport, muscle function, and bone health to optimize soccer performance.
Explore how energy bars fuel soccer training and recovery, and how to choose bars by carbohydrate, fat, and protein content for pre, during, and post-exercise.
Discover four performance enhancing supplements, caffeine, beta-alanine, creatine, and nitrate, and their mechanisms, usage protocols, and potential side effects, grounded in UEFA expert group guidance.
Explore how alcohol affects football performance and recovery, detailing metabolism, dehydration, muscle protein synthesis suppression, weight gain, and guidelines to abstain before training.
Explore practical weight loss for soccer players by balancing energy intake and expenditure, maintaining muscle with higher protein, timing protein, and managing carbohydrate needs for peak performance.
Create a tailor-made soccer nutrition plan by focusing on macro and micronutrients, whole foods, and timed meals around training, using sweat rate calculations to guide hydration and recovery.
In the last Big Count, by sports governing body FIFA in 2006, it was estimated that there are 265 million people who play soccer along with more than 5 million referees. At the time of the count that equated to 4% of the world’s population!
That makes soccer the largest sport on the globe in terms of participation and there is no evidence that its popularity is on the decline. Unfortunately, the nutrition knowledge of the average football player does not reflect the popularity of the game.
Perhaps this is the result of the availability of sports nutrition information dedicated to soccer being far below what you would expect given the game’s status.
And this despite the fact that understanding the physical demands of football accompanied by knowledge about how to adapt your nutrition will help a soccer player massively improve his or her game.
That made me realize there is a massive need for practical, easy to understand fundamental sports nutrition learning, so I decided to put together a dedicated Sports Nutrition Course for Soccer Players.
This comprehensive course is turning completely uninformed soccer players into knowledgeable athletes allowing each and every one of them to adapt and fine-tune their diets and see their performance on the field and training ground improve without ever increasing training time.
So click on the purple ‘ADD TO CART’ button and enroll in our exciting new course: SPORTS NUTRITION FOR SOCCER PLAYERS. Join us straightaway and start building your sports nutrition knowledge from zero to hero level.