Alimentary supplements consumption by physic exercise practitioners in Balneário Camboriú’s (SC) gym

Abstract

This project intends to verify the alimentary supplements consumption in physic exercise practitioners of Balneário Camboriú’s gym with people by ages between 20 and 40 years. It’s a descriptive study. The sample n=200 alimentary supplements’s users (66% male sex and 44% female sex). The consumption of alimentary supplements was determinated applying a questionary adjusted delimitated into variables: more user supplement, purpose use, proper use, who indicated. The most consumptioned supplements were Whey Protein (n=83), malt dextrin (n=55), BCAA (n=53) and glutamine (n=27), and the most consumption was by 4 and 6 times a week (42%). The main purpose with the supplementation was muscle growth, with 82% that were satisfied with the using. The supplements’s indicated was done in 25% of cases by a physic’s teacher. The spent with alimentary supplements were R$ 76.00 – 100.00 (40%). The time spent with physic exercise resulted in 7-9 hours/week (33%), 72% were doing physic exercises more than 12 month’s intending a muscle growth (35%), being the modality more exercised was a group of different activities (42%). Concluded that the supplements’s using is too high in the analyzing group, being visible the nutritional educated’s requirement to the supplement’s consumptioner to increase the information’s level about these same and to warrant assurance in this using.