Aptidão Física relacionada à saúde e qualidade de vida de praticantes de judô e jiu-jitsu.

Abstract

Combat sports and martial arts are mode of physical exercises and research in this area has shown that some of these practices can be used for non-competitive purpose, aiming to increase the health, quality of life and physical fitness. Judo being one of the most widespread forms and currently investigated, it is relevant to assess the effects of systematic practice on the health of individuals, since most of the studies on the mode is focused on sports performance, with a view to the competitive environment. Objective: To evaluate the physical fitness and health, quality of life, level of physical activity and mood of judo practitioners from Southeast of Rio Grande do Sul. Materials and methods: It is a longitudinal study where will be assessed all judo practitioners riograndense southeast, these individuals will be followed for one semester and will be evaluated in three subsequent times. As assessments will be used physical fitness and health composed of body composition, isometric handgrip strength and endurance, flexibility and maximum oxygen consumption, specific tests that consists of maximum number of repetitions using basic form (hikidashi), and completion of questionnaires as history for demographic and historical data in judo, as well as quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF), physical activity (IPAQ-long) and mood (POMS). Statistical analysis will be conducted using the SPSS 14.0 program, to verify the normality of the data will be conducted Shapiro-Wilk test, the data is presented as mean and confidence interval, since the correlation is checked from the Pearson test to check p values will be conducted analysis of variance (ANOVA) supplemented by post-hoc Bonferroni test. Significant level will be set as p<0.05.