Health and Fitness: How to Design a Diet and Exercise Program

Understand the link between diet and exercise

Exercise and nutrition both play crucial roles in maintaining your health and fitness. However, diet and training programs must be tailored to an individual’s needs in order to achieve optimal results.

This two-week course from Universiti Malaya will arm you with the skills to determine your specific needs and create a personalised diet and exercise plan.

With this knowledge, you’ll have a better understanding of how your body works and be able to combine fitness and nutrition to reach your goals.

Explore how energy balance affects weight management

Energy balance refers to the relationship between the amount of calories (energy) you consume and the amount you expend during your daily activity. The energy we consume and expend can determine how we lose, gain, or maintain weight.

On this course, you will examine your own energy balance to understand what your body needs to function well and maintain a healthy weight.

You’ll also explore the role nutrients play in the body to understand how they can affect your health, exercise ability, and metabolism.

Learn how to determine your fitness level

The course will give you the tools to measure your fitness level to determine your muscle strength and endurance as well as your cardiorespiratory fitness.

With this knowledge, you’ll learn how to create an exercise program to suit your needs.

Design custom dietary and training programs with Universiti Malaya

The Centre for Sports and Exercise Sciences Universiti Malaya offers the top sports and exercise programs in Malaysia.

Guided by world-class experts in fitness and nutrition, you’ll know how to create dietary and exercise programs to achieve your health and wellness goals.

This course is designed for professional and amateur athletes, health professionals, and fitness instructors.

It will also be particularly helpful for sports enthusiasts or anyone wishing to learn more about fitness and diet.

This course is designed for professional and amateur athletes, health professionals, and fitness instructors.

It will also be particularly helpful for sports enthusiasts or anyone wishing to learn more about fitness and diet.

• Describe the basic concept of normal energy balance.
• Evaluate caloric intake
• Design a training program
• Practice the principle of energy balance in achieving fitness goal