Esporte de rendimento : verificar o estado de aptidão física mensurada por testes objetivos em praticantes de iniciação esportiva ao handebol no município de Messias-AL

Abstract

School Physical Education encourages the practice of physical activity for dolescents to develop healthy habits, which helps to promote good physical fitness and keep them active throughout their lives. Handball, as a sport, requires a variety of movements and physical capabilities, such as strength, power, endurance, speed and flexibility, so it is important to understand the correlation between physical fitness, sports initiation and student development both in Physical Education classes and in the practice of handball. The objective of this study was to describe and verify the physical fitness of schoolchildren between 8 and 14 years of age who practice sports, specifically handball, in addition to physical education classes, and to diagnose them in relation to health risk and their normative classification of performance through the parameters of the PROESP-Br battery of tests. The sample group consisted of 20 schoolchildren, 13 boys aged 9 to 14 years and 7 girls aged 8 to 14 years participating in the handball initiation project. In the present study, the descriptive statistics of Mean and Standard Deviation were used for all PROESP-BR variables and their correlation with health risks and motor performance. The results showed that the general group had a good result in relation to physical fitness for health, with 16 participants in the Healthy Zone in the body mass index (BMI) and only 4 in the Risk Zone, these 4 participants were also in the Risk Zone in cardiorespiratory fitness, corroborating with other studies. Regarding motor performance, they had a poor result in most of the tests, with the exception of strength for the lower limb, with 4 participants in excellence and 10 participants in very good. It was shown to be a need to increase the frequency of activities of the other motor skills.