Avaliação física: sua importância para a prática e prescrição do exercício físico

Abstract

This study has as its theme: Physical Assessment: Its importance for the practice and prescription of physical exercise. It aims to investigate the practice of physical assessment as an essential element for the effective and competent prescription of physical exercises in gyms. The methodological path was research carried out with a study of bibliographic analysis. The results reveal that the importance given to the physical assessment service varies from user to user, most of the interviewee`s report that they would not do the assessment if they were not obliged, that most physical education professionals require an assessment before prescribing a training program. physical exercise, more that there are still professionals who do not make this requirement and who still reports that it is possible to adapt an efficient physical exercise prescription without the student having undergone a physical evaluation, that there is a considerable portion of gyms that do not require the student to pass by a primary assessment at the time of enrollment and that the academies that require primary assessment, most of them did not require reassessments. It is concluded that many evaluate themselves only for their self-knowledge; others to monitor their evolution; others just to know their body composition; others to impose their limits, which despite the presence of the indicators recommended by the literature, their quality is impaired because there is no significant difference found in the vast majority of them, as well as the lack of standardization, the professionals working in the Personal Trainer segment are predominantly young people , but 50% of the participants have worked in the follow-up for more than 10 years, and that 10% of the sample reported having a degree in Physical Education only in the Licentiate modality.