The Essentials of Sports Nutrition Study Guide serves as a resource
companion to Essentials of Sports Nutrition and Supplements (2008),
the offi cial textbook for the International Society of Sports Nutrition’s
(ISSN) certifi cation in sports nutrition. The Study Guide is designed
to assist you in understanding and mastering the text content that is
necessary to achieve certifi cation. Materials covered focus on terms,
key words, concepts, and other associated topics. To accomplish the
goals of this text, each chapter follows the offi cial text closely, allowing
students to work through specifi c content areas. At the end of each
chapter, there are sample quizzes. Answers to all sample quizzes are
presented in the Appendix of the Study Guide.
The Study Guide is designed to allow the student to work through
major content areas as they read the Essentials of Sports Nutrition and
Supplements text. Education-based research suggests that material is
best learned when students fi rst read material and then write or work
through exercises that require them to apply the material they have
just covered. The Study Guide is designed to facilitate this by engaging
students with materials that relate to the information presented in the
Essentials of Sports Nutrition and Supplements text. Students are
strongly encouraged to use the two texts concurrently, thus engaging
in the process of active reading and active learning.
The Study Guide was created as a learning tool to help students
prepare for the International Society of Sports Nutrition’s certifi cation
in sports nutrition. I have been truly honored to be associated with
the creation of a study guide that will help prepare students for the
rigors of the ISSN’s certifi cation. I wish you the best of luck as you
prepare and eventually move into the profession.