Motivos para adesão à prática do crossfit em uma academia de Maceió

Abstract

The practice of Crossfit emerged a little over 20 years ago and has increased a lot in recent years in the country. Crossfit gyms are attended by a diverse audience; in this context, this study aimed to investigate the reasons that lead people to adhere to the Crossfit practice. The study used the questionnaire “Inventory of Motivation to Regular Physical Activity Practice” IMPRAF 54, as an instrument for data collection, which uses a Likert-type table, graded in 5 points, ranging from “this motivates me very little” (1) to “this motivates me a lot” (5). Two groups were formed, divided into male and female subjects, totaling a sample of 92 subjects, 41 men and 51 women participating. Group 1 (G1), composed of male students, aged between 18 and 61 years, and Group 2 (G2), composed of female students, aged between 18 and 50 years. The study analyzed the data according to the variables: sex and age. The pleasure domain was evidenced in the results found, 74.44% and 79.1% in G2, the Health dimension appears in second place with values of 73.41% in G1 and 79.6% in G2. of the Aesthetic dimensions that appears in third place in G1 with 64.96%, while in G2 in third place appears the Stress Control Dimension with values of 64.2%. It was also found that there is a difference in motivation between the age groups in both sexes, where: G1 in the age groups between 18 to 22 years old and 23 to 36 years old, the Pleasure domain appears in first place with values of 75.6% respectively, in the age group between 37 and 61 years, the Stress Control domain appears in first place with a value of 79.7%, the same happens in G2 where the age group 18 to 22 presented the Health dimension in first place with 76, 2% and the age groups between 23 to 36 37 to 61 presented the Pleasure dimension in first place, with values of 82.7% and 70.4% respectively. However, even with differences in results between age groups, this study found that in the overall result of data analysis, the Pleasure dimension was presented as the greatest motivation between the two groups (G1 and G2).