Nível de atividade física e comportamento sedentário em discentes de educação física

Abstract

The present study aims to verify the level of physical activity and sedentary behavior of students of the Physical Education course at UFNT, through a field research of quantitative nature with the descriptive objective, using as an instrument for data collection the International Questionnaire of Physical Activity IPAQ short version, with a sample of 79 students. where variables such as gender, period and age of the participants were analyzed in order to classify them according to the parameters established by IPAQ and supporting the result found with what is described in the academic literature. In the state of Tocantins, in the municipality of Tocantinópolis, students on the Physical Education Degree course classified 72% of the sample described in the general table as active or very active, 5% classified as insufficiently active A; 11.39% classified as insufficiently active B and 11.39% classified as sedentary. We concluded that the objectives set out to go into the field researching the Level of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior of Physical Education students is an initiative that makes great contributions to bringing light on this data and use it so that students are even more interested in evaluating themselves and consequently improving in this aspect, becoming more active and encouraging other people through research and knowledge about health care through movement .