write a 2000-word report and nutritional plan (inclusive of the diet analysis).

You need to research and discuss the energy requirements

and demands of a sport and elite athlete of your choice. This

can be for either a male or female athlete, for example a

professional male footballer, elite female swimmer etc. Whilst

you do have free choice of sport, bear in mind less

mainstream/obscure sports may lack published research,

which may make justifying your nutrition plan harder. Within

the report you must discuss the current recommended

guidelines for energy intake and the macronutrient needs of

your chosen athlete.

You are then required to devise a detailed 7 day meal plan

showing all main meals and any snacks you recommend the

athlete consumes. This must then be analysed using software

such as WinDiets, Myfitnesspal or Nutritics (or similar) to

determine the total energy, macro and micronutrient

breakdown of the meal plan per day (please do not report the

sum of calories over the 7 days). Finally, you must justify your

plan and explain how it meets the recommendations for that

sport/athlete.

Within your meal plan you should consider the typical training

schedule for your chosen sport and structure your meal plan

to take into account training and non-training days. Within

your justification, you need to explain how you manipulated

the macronutrient intake for these different days and why. It is

recommend that when planning your menu you consider the

mean stature and mass of athletes for your chosen sport, for

example what is the typical stature and mass of an elite

female marathon runner or an elite male swimmer, and use

these values to determine the required calories and

macronutrients.