Um olhar acadêmico sobre o CrossFit : produção científica na última década

Abstract

Crossfit is a sport discipline systematized at 21st century, also practiced at leisure domain and considered a high intensity functional physical activity which promotes great sense of community among the practitioners. This study aimed to map the scientific papers about Crossfit in the last decade, pointing most and less studied subjects, characterizing it as a scope review. It occurred from October 31st to November 13rd of 2022, using the CAPES journal portal with the search parameters Crossfit AND (“physical training” OR workout OR “physical conditioning” OR “physical fitness”) added by search results by “HFIT”, applying time filter (last 10 years), delivery language (English, Spanish and Portuguese) and peer reviewing, resulting in 266 eligible papers. They were labeled in 11 categories and the more representative were “practice outcomes” (102 papers, 38,35%), “Sportive training” (35 studies, 13,16%), “practitioner capabilities and abilities” (29 publications,10,90%) and “external looks to performance” (27 papers, 10,15%). Those are traditionally productive and well physical education stable areas, justifying the amounts. Less published study areas are “physical activity epistemology” (2 publications, 0,75%), “physical activity epidemiology”, (6 papers, 2,26%) and “Modality teaching-learning” (7 works, 2,63%). The issues highlighted by this work are those which concluded Crossfit injury rates is comparable to traditional sports, as well the ones that examine its health effects, evaluating the training positive consequences. There is a great possibility to expand research subjects considering the perceived labels or new ones, since Crossfit is outgoing as an emerging sport practice, needing more robustness in scientific evidence.