Chapter 24: Basic Nutritional Concepts
Ellen Landes
November 11, 2022
Knowledge of basic nutritional concepts is important for personal trainers as nutrition plays an integral role in the overall mechanics and health of the body.
Ellen Landes
- Ellen Landes, MS, RDN, CPT is a registered dietitian, freelance writer, and university instructor.
- Ellen holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in human nutrition and dietetics.
- MS Nutrition - Boston University
- BS Nutrition and Dietetics - University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Certified Personal Trainer - ACSM
Ellen Landes Experience
Ellen’s writing focuses on evidence-based nutrition, fitness, and other health-related topics. After finishing her Dietetic Internship at Viterbo University in 2015, she started LN Fit to serve nutrition clients. Since 2020 she has been teaching as an adjunct instructor in Human Nutrition at Rassmussen University. As an ACSM-Certified Personal Trainer, she especially enjoys topics in distance running, strength training, and yoga.
Experience helping students pass their exams
As a company, we have helped over 10,000 personal trainers, certified strength and conditioning coaches, and nutrition coaches study for and pass their fitness exams.
Some of these certifications that we help people pass include multiple NASM exams (CPT, CES, PES, and CNC), NSCA exams (CPT and CSCS), ISSA (CPT and nutritionist), the ACE CPT, the NCSF CPT, and the ACSM CPT.
We are subject matter experts when it comes to all of the above certifications and the study material that they contain. We stay up-to-date on any changes to any of the certifications in order to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information.
Education
We hold a wide variety of Fitness certifications. For any certification that we talk about or create study materials for, we have at least two staff members that hold the certification and 5+ years of teaching the material.
All our staff members have a minimum of a Bachelor of Science in kinesiology. Multiple of our members have master’s degrees in a wide spectrum of exercise science specialties.