Profile the frequency of alimentary comsumption of amateur athletes (street running)

Abstract

Although, in general, they are not submitted to one stress so physiological accented how much professional athletes, amateur athletes, certainly, need special attention with its feeding, since also she has the concern with the performance. The study it had as objective to evaluate the frequency of the alimentary consumption of resident running athletes of street in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Forty and three amateur corridors (26 men and 17 women) had answered a questionnaire contend information on volume and frequency of the training and feeding. The majority of the studied individuals (62.8%) showed a unsatisfactory number of meals (3-4 meals/day). Approximately half of the group presented adequate frequencies of consumption (4-7 times/week) of fruits,vegetables and leguminous (51.2%, 55.8%, 48.8%, respectively). The frequencies of alimentary consumption for the groups of cereals, meats and eggs, and milk and derivatives, had been adjusted (4-7 times/week) for most of the evaluated athletes (76.7%, 67.4% and 58.1%, respectively). Although the hídrico consumption has been satisfactory (8 cups/day) for the majority of the individuals (65.1%), the hydratation project still was insufficient for many individuals (34.9%). The results suggest that the nutritional orientation for a specialized professional is indispensable for the adequacy of the alimentary standard of the amateur athlete, what it can favor the attendance of the nutritionist demands in reply to the training.