Master of Health & Performance Chef

Health & Performance Chef is the new ALMA Master course designed to create professionals who combine the gastronomic skills and taste of a chef with the scientific and technical skills of expert nutritionists and dieticians.
Health & Performance Chef meets the market needs of fields such as sport, wellness, or nutrition in cases of illnesses related to unhealthy lifestyles.

This Master course is organized under the endorsement of UEFA (Union of European Football Association), to offer new professional horizons to modern chefs and open up new opportunities.

The program lasts 6weeks.

Intended for

• Young chefs with basic cooking experience seek specific training that offers innovative and up-to-date professionalism and leads to a position in the industry.
• Professional chefs who want to add new skills and give a vertical orientation to their career.
• A sports group or wellness resort chef who wants to expand and update his or her skills and acquire marketable professional qualifications.

180 + Hours of Didactics

Raw materials

Culinary techniques

Fermentations

Culinary practices

Elements biochemistry

Principles of Nutrition

Physiological adaptations

Sport and Fitness

The daily diet is crucial for the. Quality and quantity influence their performance and are one of the key factors for success and continuous improvement. Finding the balance between an athlete’s energy and nutritional needs and the ability to satisfy appetite and gustatory pleasure is a task entrusted to the chefs of sports clubs, teams, or private chefs. The new ALMA course aims to transfer the needed techniques and knowledge to achieve this goal, creating a high-potential profession, which is why UEFA also endorses the Master.

Hotel Industry and Wellness

In resorts and hotel chains that offer their guests nutritional and psycho-physical wellness programs, wellness spas, and fitness programs, the packages are complemented by tailor-made diets and programs, where nutrition is aimed at rebalancing the body and giving it renewed vigor. In this context, food is meant: only a complete preparation, featuring culinary art and nutrition, which makes it possible for the chef to meet these needs in a single dish.

Private Luxury Chef

‘Home chefs’ are nutritional chefs who plan meals for an exclusive and demanding clientele, based on individual dietary and physiological needs and, of course, personal taste. Through the development of customized programs, the chef must be able to deliver results in terms of well-being and shape, ensuring quality and refinement of flavors, raw materials, and individual dishes.

Paths of Medicine

Feeding the body properly with foods that stimulate it to fight diseases and illnesses and restore health is the goal of the nutritional paths that chefs and scientists around the world are continually perfecting, thus making food a trusted ally in the fight against NCDs (non-communicable diseases) such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and certain types of cancer. Giving dishes the pleasantness of a reassuring flavor, while respecting the studied composition of its ingredients, is a strategic skill for a Chef who wants to make his or her cuisine an element of help and support for those who fight against an illness or hospital stay.

Corporate Food

Companies are paying: the Health & Performance Chef can contribute to the achievement of this goal by focusing on the well-being of their employees.