Avaliação dos níveis de flexibilidade em escolares do ensino médio

Abstract

Introduction: Flexibility is a component of physical fitness related to health and wellness. Important for maintaining posture and daily activities. It plays an important role in our lives, especially in the school environment, since incorrect postural habits, adopted may enable future postural problems. Materials and methods: This was an analytical, cross-sectional quantitative approach, performed with 70 school children aged between 14 and 17 years in a state school in the city of Umari - EC. We used a sheet and held the sit and reach test, with bank Wells to assess the levels of lumbar spine flexibility of school. Results: It was observed that the majority of participants were female, and all generally regularly participated in physical education classes. Regarding the flexibility of the lumbar spine assessed with the sit and reach test, with Wells Bench, observed best result at the second attempt from the first, most were no significant differences in gender and age. Conclusion: Through this study, it was found that the students are with the lumbar flexibility within the recommended range when compared to rates normative Project Sport Brazil (PROESP-BR) that are: 20 25 cm for sex malea and 23-28cm for females.