A aptidão física de alunos de uma CERCI: Análise com a utilização do teste de Brockport

• Autor(a) principal: Jorge Filipe Tavares Justino
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/116145
• topic: Outras ciências sociais; Other social sciences

The work was carried out during approximately nine months in the Institution of CERCIESTA, where I dealt with people of different degrees of intellectual disability. Intellectual disability is characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior encompassing everyday conceptual, social and practical skills, appearing in people before age 18 ("Frequently asked questions on intellectual disability,"). During my stay at the Institution I participated in different activities, such as Physical Education, Swimming and Psychomotricity. However, my study was based on the analysis of physical fitness in students who already performed physical activity regularly, comparing them between genders and with the standard values presented by the Brockport Physical Fitness Test Manual (Winnick & Short, 2014). With a sample of 13 elements, I used the Brockport Physical Fitness Test Manual (Winnick & Short, 2014) to perform a series of tests covering the components of flexibility, muscular strength and endurance, aerobic functioning and body composition of the different students. A statistical program, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), version 24, was used to treat the data taken from the tests, where the descriptive and inferential statistics were analyzed. With the data treatment, it was concluded that: i) there are no significant differences between genders; ii) the female gender has better values in flexibility; iii) male gender has better values in muscular strength and endurance; iv) both genders have low values of aerobic functioning; v) half of the students need improvements in body composition; vi) in general the physical fitness in this population is weak.