Percepção de prazer e estados de humor de idosos praticantes de musculação da cidade de João Pessoa

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the perception of pleasure and the mood of the elderly in the city of João Pessoa after the practice of bodybuilding sessions. This study is characterized as quantitative, of the descriptive type and transversal character. The sample consisted of 15 elderly people over 60 years old, bodybuilders from the city of João Pessoa. The affective response was evaluated post exercise by means of the so-called Likert scale of composite bipolar scale of 11 points, ranging from +5 (very good) to -5 (very poor), while the mood profile of the elderly was evaluated before and after exercise by the Brunel mood scale (BRUMS) in order to measure the emotional variations and psychological well-being associated to the exercise. The research was conducted at the academies Science Center Fitness in the city of João Pessoa- PB. The independent t test was used to verify differences in the affective response and the Anova Two way test to verify the possible differences in the mood state variable between the training protocols (metabolic x tensional) in the pre and post exercise moments. The level of significance was set at p <0.05. It was verified that there was no significant difference in the perception of pleasure of the elderly after the practice of the methods of tensional and metabolic training (p> 0.05) and there was no significant interaction in the protocol x time in the domains of the mood of the elderly in the pre and postsession (p> 0.05). The elderly had a good perception of pleasure, and the strength training protocols did not provide decreases in mood after training sessions.