A contribuição do treinamento funcional para a diminuição da obesidade infantil

Abstract

The present study has as its theme the contribution of functional training to the reduction of childhood obesity. Thus, the practice of physical activity in this phase of life, which is childhood, is of great importance. With the objective of analyzing whether functional training can contribute to the prevention and intervention in overweight and obese children. Thus, to produce knowledge aiming at the importance of functional training and its contributions in the formation process of a more dynamic and active individual, seeking to reverse the behavior of sedentary children, with inadequate eating habits, and to stimulate the well being generated by the practice of functional training and other types of activities, providing a healthy lifestyle, aiming at improving the health of these children. The study is centered on the Research Line Physical Education, Sport Sciences and Health, with a qualitative nature and transversal cut, being of exploratory and descriptive character, starting from a bibliographic review. From the analyzed articles and books, it is clear that functional exercise is an educational modality, which encourages children to practice other types of sports and physical activities, developing motor coordination, flexibility, strengthening the body and mind with their cognitive aspect and motor, and a strong ally in the fight against sedentary lifestyle and childhood obesity, which is growing and worrying more and more, due to the change in eating habits and lifestyle of the 21st century population, less and less active and hostages of the technology as a means of distraction in leisure time.