La imagen corporal como motivación para la práctica de ejercicio físico y factor de riesgo para la salud de usuarios en gimnasios

Abstract

This project is intended to embrace the concepts of body image, motivation for physical exercise and how it can become a risk factor for the health of the person, from this point of view is necessary to evaluate the body image establishing its perception people and if there is any alteration; motivations met with people attending the gym and the relationship between these motivations, body image and risk factors to health associated with it. Given the content of the project, was oriented from a mixed approach, this in turn implied the use and collection of information describing the status and meaning in the lives of people around the exercise. The context and the population belong to the city of Bogota, not only by the technological and social development that occurs there, but also by the current boom of specific models of beauty imposed by physical exercise and having an impact on body image. The work is useful not only to professionals of Physical Culture, Sport and Recreation but other professions such as medicine and psychology, dealing with diseases or phenomena related to alterations in body image and commitment to health. The target population for the research was selected considering attending the gym regularly besides specific physical characteristics; the instruments used for data collection were open and in-depth interview, and scale figures. It aims to inform another way to understand the exercise and practice, showing that this can have a negative impact on people if not designed considering behaviors, feelings, attitudes and psychological aspects of the same. Professionals in the field of training, nutrition, medicine and allied health, know the importance of exercise on people, but if it is not driven by the right path towards real goals and logic, can be half to trigger other practices harmful to the overall health of individuals.