Relação da Acurácia Interoceptiva com a intensidade do exercício de ciclistas treinados em ambiente fechado

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Everton Borges da
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/47962
• topic: discriminação interoceptiva; mountain bike; interocepção; acurácia interoceptiva; índice de massa corporal

Interoception is the ability to detect and perceive physiological and visceral alterations of the body through the processing of afferent signals that reach the brain. It is still unknown if possessing greater levels of interoception is a good or bad trait. Studies show that there is a strong association between interoceptive accuracy and exercise intensity, caused by the cognitive experiences of each training session reinforcing interoceptive accuracy and physiological awareness. The goal of this study is to relate interoceptive accuracy and discrimination to the intensity of exercise of cyclists trained indoors. The study sample was composed of 7 male adults (33.28 ± 4.82 years; BMI 26.10 ±3.91), apparently healthy, physically conditioned and practitioners of mountain biking with 1 year minimum experience. The volunteers were submitted on their first attending to an anamnesis questionnaire, to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), to a heart beat perception test and to a 16 km training session. On their second attending, the volunteers were submitted to the VO2 max test. There was a significant negative relationship between BMI and interoceptive accuracy (r= -0.775 and p= 0.041) and a positive relationship between interoceptive discrimination and exercise intensity (r=0.897 and p= 0.006). In this sense, considering the results obtained from the sample, it seems that individuals with greater interoceptive discrimination have a higher intensity in time trial exercise.