Percepção de mulheres sobre as barreiras para a prática de musculação em academia de ginástica

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to identify the perception of women regarding the barriers to the practice of bodybuilding in gymnastics. Methodology: This is a descriptive study and a quantitative approach. Participants were 40 women aged 18 to 45 years (28.5 ± 9.5 years), bodybuilders of a gym located in João Pessoa. The variables investigated were barriers to the practice of physical activity, divided into five dimensions: environment, psychological-beliefs, psychological-motivation, physical and psychological-personal. Results: In the environmental dimension the lack of company (50.0%), sufficient free time (47.5%) obtained the highest frequencies; on the psychological-beliefs dimension, 27.5% said they were sufficiently active; in the psychological-motivation dimension, 40.0% said they needed to rest or relax in their free time. In the dimension of physical aspects it was contacted that, 20.0% are afraid of being hurt, falling or harming health, and lack energy; in the psychological-personal dimension 37.5% said they feel very fat or thin. Conclusion: The main barriers to the practice of bodybuilding activity were lack of companionship and enough free time (environmental dimension), whether active enough (psychological-beliefs), resting or relaxing in free time (psychological-motivation), having fear of injury, falling or impairing health and lack of energy (physical) and having the perception of being too fat or thin (psychological-personal).