Análise dos níveis de saúde e aptidão física em estudantes que fazem a prática do atletismo nas cidades de Murici-AL e Maceió-AL

Abstract

In the digital age in which we live, it is increasingly common to observe children and adolescents going down the path of obesity, due to factors such as poor diet and especially a sedentary lifestyle, boys and girls who exchange the practice of physical exercise for the screen of a cell phone or computer, which are very useful tools for the research and learning scenario, but they can become a villain if used inappropriately. School physical education can be an alternative to try to change this scenario, but we know that the weekly workload for classes in this subject is only 2 classes, 1 of which is practical and the other theoretical, which seems to be a short time for exercise in view of the WHO recommendation, which recommends at least 60 minutes of daily physical activity. Knowing this, it would be interesting for this public to adopt the practice of some extra-class physical exercise. The objective of this study was to identify how athletics, which is a base sport, will influence physical fitness of children/adolescents who practice this sport at least 1x a week together with participation in school physical education classes. And to observe these data, a battery of physical fitness tests from PROESP-BR was applied and the results were compared with the PROESP-BR physical fitness table and to verify the level of physical fitness and health of these students. A total of 16 adolescents between 10 and 16 years of age who attend physical education classes and practice extra-class athletics were recruited. Among these participants, 10 are from the city of Murici-AL and practice athletics 1x a week, while the rest are from the city of Maceió-AL and practice this sport 3 times a week. The results showed that most of the individuals who participated in the tests presented a very satisfactory result related to motor performance (DM) and anthropometric measurements according to the evaluation shown in the PROESP-Br tables. It was also observed that the results of boys, for the most part, were better than those of girls, showing a better DM for males. Of the 9 variables collected in the application of the tests and measures, only 2 were not satisfactory, the agility and flexibility tests, that is, most of the participants fit the classification of "weak" or "reasonable", taking into account physical performance. Speaking of health, those evaluated had a negative result only in the abdominal and flexibility tests, where most were classified in the "Risk Zone".