Níveis de flexibilidade em praticantes de futebol de uma empresa da cidade do Natal

Abstract

In football, flexibility is considered a key variable for the positive relationship it has with the execution of technical movements (WEINECK, 2000). The sports practice regularly and systematically, that is, part of the daily lives of individuals, beneficial to one's health, contributing to its functional autonomy and reducing their absence at work by problems saúde.O aim of this study was to identify the flexibility levels of staff SESC RN soccer practitioners. Furthermore, classifying the players with respect to flexibility, according to the literature. Initially, the sample consisted of 35 employees, male, SESC RN, soccer practitioners. The sample were excluded 12 employees with decimal aged under 35 or over 45 years and 3 who refused to take the test. Thus, the sample was set to 20 employees (37.76 ± 5.80 years). To determine the morphological profile of footballers, the Body Mass Index (BMI) was used, by calculating the ratio between the measure of total body weight in kilograms by height in meters squared (BMI = weight (kg ) / height (m) ²) (Fernandes Filho, 2003). In addition, it determined the subcutaneous fat percentage (Jackson & Pollock, 1978) of the study participants, as for the assessment of flexibility test was used to sit and reach, modified Wells and Dillon (CSEF, 1998). To flexibility, 67% rated themselves below average and bad, and 33% on average and above average. But the players group, with a mean value of 22.67 ± 8.21 cm flexibility, was ranked below average, according to the Canadian Standardized Test of Fitness (1986).