A educação nutricional com praticantes de ginástica artística como base para um bom desempenho atlético

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Anelise Noronha do [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Composição corporal; Desempenho atlético; Recomendações nutricionais; Educação alimentar e nutricional; Nutrition education; Athletic performance; Nutritional recommendation; Body composition
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/8817

A good performance for sport is to join the technique to the maximum of athletic performance This result is obtained improving the psychological characteristics and nutrition of the athletes added by the maximum of their potentialities related to the structure and to athletic figure. The balanced nutrition and the correct choice of foods guarantee health and a better athletic performance. The justification of the present study resides in the importance of the realization of an educative program in nutrition for the athletes in artistic gymnastics, having in mind this relation with food, nutrition and a good athletic performance during the trainings which is going to contribute to the promotion of health and improvement of the performance. It was an explorative study, observational, cross-sectional, with collection of primary data. The results found regarding knowledge of nutrition was an improvement in the control group than in the study group, showing that the gymnasts from the study group are in the maintenance stage according to the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change. Since the athletes in artistic gymnastics are in an excellent phase to begin a Nutritional Education (EN) it activates and participates. And also to demystify unsuitable attitudes, mainly to stimulate new practices that are proved to be healthy and contribute to improve the athletic performance. The nutrition is not going to transform an individual not trained in an olympic athlete; but it is an essential part of the training of all athletes.