Nutrition for sport is built upon an understanding of how nutrients such as carbohydrate, fat and protein contribute to the fuel supply needed by the body to perform exercise.

How movements occur contributes to successful performance. The skeletal and muscular systems work closely together and are referred to as the musculo-skeletal system. This system will support movement analysis and improvement in technique.

The training year is split into pre-season, in season and off season, and the methods and types of training reflect the sport and the particular time of year, e.g. high-volume (the amount of training), high-intensity training within pre-season.

It is important that an athlete trains as specifically as possible in order to prepare for competition. This means selecting the most appropriate methods of training to suit the components of fitness being used in the sporting activity.

When developing your sporting performance, training is inevitably a key consideration if progress is to be made. Training can be beneficial to you, whether it is burning calories when trying to lose body fat or trying to increase speed for your particular sport. However, in order to make steady continual training improvements the Principles of training are essential if progress is to be made. In order to make training gains, the 3 principles of training that are of most importance are specificity, progression and overload.