EFEITOS DO MÉTODO PILATES E DO TREINAMENTO COM PESOS NA MARCHA, NO PESO CORPORAL, NA CAPACIDADE FÍSICA FUNCIONAL E NA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DE MULHERES OBESAS

• Autor(a) principal: CARNEIRO, Juliana Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1758
• topic: Obesidade; exercício resistido; marcha; saúde; 1. Mulheres - Obesidade 2. Mulheres - Treinamento com peso 3. Obesidade - Mulheres - Qualidade de vida 4. Mulheres - Saúde; Obesity; resisted exercise; gait; health; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::EDUCACAO FISICA

The physical exercise is, currently, a means to intervene in the epidemics of obesity, helping with the weight loss, enhancing the capacity to perform daily activities and decrease the factors of risk of chronicle diseases. Objective: Assess the effectiveness of two programs of physical exercises (Pilates and weight training) and nutritional orientation, in the body weight, in the biomechanics gait, in the functional physical capacity and in the quality of life of obese women. Methodology: For twelve weeks, a group of fifteen obese women participated in a program of aerobic exercises and Pilates method and another group of fourteen obese women participated in a program of aerobic exercises and weight training. The groups participated of nutritional orientation. The exercise training lasted sixty minutes, three times a week. Were evaluated: the body weight, the body mass index (BMI), the six-minute walk test, the stand-up test, the sit-and-reach test, the SF-36(The Medical Outcomes Study 36 item) and the kinematics of the gait through recorded images and digitalized using specific software (Kwon 3D). Results: There was significant reduction of the body weight and the BMI, development in the rates of all tests of functional physical capacity and in the variables of the angular movement of the knee after twelve weeks of intervention in the two groups. The Pilates group showed significant improvement in five domains of SF-36, after twelve weeks and in the domain functional capacity between the two groups. The group trained with weights showed meaningful development in most of the space-time variables of the gait after twelve weeks. Conclusion: Both programs were effective to promote weight loss and enhance the functional physical capacity after twelve weeks. The Pilates method was more effective providing obese women with a better quality of life, mainly in the aspect of physical health. The weight training program was more effective to alter positively the kinematics variable which increased the dynamic stability of the gait of obese women after twelve weeks of intervention.