Nutritional profile of strength activity practice

Abstract

Dietary inadequacy is a common occurrence among exercise activity practitioners. Such inadequate intake hampers lean mass gain and can disrupt weight loss and improves performance. This study was an exploratory quantitative experiment, in which the objective was to verify the nutritional profile of practitioners of strength activity by analyzing the appropriation with the practiced modality, counting on a sample of 26 participants. An anthropometric evaluation was performed to evaluate the body composition of the individuals and applied a 24-hour recall and three-day food survey to evaluate dietary intake. The analysis of the results regarding body composition according to CB and percentage of body fat shows that 47.4% (n=9) of the men are overweight, whereas the women presented between eutrophy (n=3 / 42.8 %) and mild malnutrition (n=3 / 42.8%). For muscle tissue, men showed a prevalence in normality with 36.7% (n=7), but with significant amounts in excess of lean mass (n=6 / 31.6%), as well as women, (n=4 / 57.1%), but with a large amount of mild depletion (n=3 / 42.9%). The dietary intake found was of hypocaloric and hypoglycemic diets with prevalence for both sexes. 68.4% of the men (n=13) consumed a hyperproteic diet, whereas in the women, consumption was between normal (n=3 / 42.9%) and hypoproteic (n=3 / 42.9%) diets. As for lipids, this one presented great variation, but the majority of subjects (n=11 / 42.3%) consumed diets with values below that recommended for practitioners of strength activities. It can be concluded that dietary inadequacy is present in practitioners of strength activities, so that it may interfere with the desired results.