EVALUATION OF QUALITY OF LIVE, OVERWEIGHT PREVALENCE AND POSTURAL ALTERATIONS, FOR THE PROGRAM PRESCRIPTION OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE IN GYMNASTICS ACADEMY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BARBALHA, CEARÁ

Abstract

Nowadays the prescription pattern of exercise has been in the big majority based on frequency, intensity, duration and type of physical activity. In this context, it is necessary that there is a sequence in the serie of evaluation, applied in a logical and coherent form, in which one step of each phase should precede the other, following a hierarchy, so that the structuring of the adopted exercises in the training program can happen. This is a descriptive, quantitative, field and cross-sectional study. The population in this study is composed by beginner individuals in the program of physical activity in gymnastics academies in Barbalha city in the state of Ceará, Brazil. The sample was composed by 150 individuals, being 75 men and 75 women, selected by the simple random probabilistic method per conglomerate, with age average of 29,24 +_ 12,70, that joined a gymnastics academy to initiate a training program of oriented physical exercise. In this study it was verified that the majority of individuals presented morphological alterations in corporal segments; it was observed that the main goal of the practicum is the esthetic factor and, in this search, it is poorly exercised the muscular reorganization. It is concluded that there is no correlation values that indicated association between the alteration, which presented to be inversely proportional; when analyzed by gender, both the distended and the protruded abdomen are more found in males.