Motivos que levam o servidor da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN a participar da modalidade ginástica vinculada ao Programa Viver em Harmonia

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Edinaldo Santos da
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/47961
• topic: Motivação; Ginastica; Atividade física; Estilo de vida

Over recent decades, researches on the motivational factors that lead men and women to the practice of physical activity have been receiving increasingly attention in the literature. The central questions are the following: What is the motivation of practising physical activity, what leads to the permanence and the objectives to be achieved. Therefore, this study aimed to find out the motivational factors in a group of twenty (20) UFRN employees, students of the gymnastics modality of the quality of life program, of the project to live in harmony, of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. For this purpose, counted with a sample of four (04) UFRN employees of both sexes, aged between 20 and 70 years old. They responded to a semi-structured interview with a pre-established script. To preserve the identity of participants, they will be called; A, B, C and D. A semi-structured interview with a pre-established script has been conducted. The data was collected and analyzed horizontally. According to the analysis, the main reasons for practicing gymnastics in the project are: muscle strengthening, body weight control, health, availability of time, dynamic classes, pleasure and leisure. These results demonstrate the preoccupation with the body, in the pursuit of health, also in entering the middle age actively and without pathology. The sum of needs makes physical activity more meaningful, which was confirmed by the interviews. Regardless of the reasons that lead them to practice physical activity, it was evidenced that there are many health benefits of the UFRN employees caused by gymnastics practice. It is concluded that the objectives of the present research were achieved, such findings allow a greater understanding of what motivates the UFRN servants to practice physical activity and will assist the project and its collaborators in the planning of the classes, in the points that will need to be changed or in the adaptations to be made so that the modalities become more attractive and motivating to the target public, which are the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte employees.