Analysis of the performance of health-related physical fitness in school students practicing bodybuilding

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Rayssa Camurça
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Pinto, Nilson Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/16111
• topic: Treinamento de resistência; Aptidão física; Saúde.; Entrenamiento de resistencia; Aptitud física; Salud.; Resistance training; Physical Fitness; Health.

Bodybuilding, although it is not a modality commonly applied at school, has become an attractive pedagogical strategy capable of promoting health and encouraging its practitioners to adopt a healthy lifestyle. This study aimed to assess health-related physical fitness in schoolchildren who practice weight training. The sample consisted of 132 adolescents enrolled in bodybuilding classes at a public school in Ceará. Health-related physical fitness was assessed by collecting anthropometric data, body composition, levels of flexibility, abdominal resistance and aerobic fitness, before and after school term. The results showed an increase in the levels of flexibility (26.55 ± 9.87 vs. 27.43 ± 9.6), abdominal resistance (34.88 ± 8.21 vs. 46.38 ± 8.1) and resistance aerobics (717.9 ± 68.23 vs. 734.96 ± 62.37), however, this increase was not able to classify them outside the risk zone for cardiovascular health. In conclusion, the practice of bodybuilding expanded the parameters of physical fitness related to health, especially musculoskeletal, however, it revealed the need for better systematization in aerobic training in order to improve the cardiovascular health of these students.