Anthropometric profile of a company of employees of Joinville practitioners exercises of physical
Abstract
Industries have been worried about the quality of life of its employees not only inside the workstation, but about the quality of life outside the company that affects directly in the employees’ income. The objective of this work was identifying the anthropometric profile of industrial workers of company in Joinville male between 20 and 50 years old. Materials and methods: the measured variable (total corporal mass, height, BMI, percentage of muscular mass, circumference of waist and hip) in this study were identified by an anthropometric evaluation, being that for the corporal density was used the Protocol of Guedes (1998) and for the percentage of fat the Siri Formula. Results: The sample was divided in4 groups of 25 younger, older and the 50 intermediate divided in two groups. The percentage of 6.04 % was observed above the maximum, being the average 24.4% of fat. Guedes (1998) considers a percentage for active people 12-18% g. Conclusion: We found a level of overweight on the studied sample. We concluded that programs for awareness of improvements in the quality of life related to the nutrition an physical activity become necessary, knowledge about the physical activity in the health context and life care habits would improve a lot the level of satisfaction of these workers.
References
- ACSM. Manual do ACSM para testes de esforço e prescrição de exercício. 5º Edição. Rio de Janeiro: Revinter, 2000.
- ABCS. Applied Body Composition Assessment. Editora Human, pg 82. Kinectics,1996.
- Barros, M.V.G. Atividades físicas no lazer e outros comportamentos relacionados a saúde dos trabalhadores de indústria no estado de Santa Catarina. Dissertação de mestrado UFSC. Florianópolis, 1999.
- Fonseca, J.G.M. Clínica médica: obesidade e outros distúrbios alimentares. Ed. Medsi. Rio de Janeiro, 2001
- Goldberg e Elliot. O poder de cura dos exercícios físicos. Ed., São Paulo, 2001
- Guedes, D.P. Composição corporal, princípios, técnicas e aplicações. Florianópolis, CEITEC, 1990.
- Guedes, D.P.; Guedes, J.E.R.P. Controle do peso corporal: composição corporal, atividade física e nutrição. Londrina: Midiograf, 1980.
- Nahas, M.V. Atividade física, Saúde e Qualidade de vida. Londrina: Midiograf, 2001.
- Siri, W.E. Body composition from fluids spaces and density: Analyses of methods. In: Techniques for measuring body composition, Washington, D C: National Academy of Science and Natural Resource Council, 1961.
- Thomas, J.R.; Nelson, J.K. Métodos de Pesquisa em Atividade Física. Porto Alegre: Artmed, 2002.
- Word Health Organization. The Word health report 2002: reducing risk, promoting healthy life. Word health Organization, Geneva, 2002.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License BY-NC which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of the authorship of the work and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are authorized to enter into additional contracts separately for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (eg, publishing in institutional repository or book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are allowed and encouraged to post and distribute their work online (eg, in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this can bring about productive change as well as increase impact and impact. citation of published work (See The Effect of Free Access).
