Atitudes relacionadas à imagem corporal de homens profissionais de educação física atuantes em academias de ginástica

Abstract

Currently, the gyms seem to present themselves as potential sites for the construction of physical appearance-based on body’s models socially idealized, which can affect the Body Image of men Physical Education professionals inserted in these contexts. Thus, the aim of this work was to identify beliefs, behaviors and dissatisfaction related to Body Image in men Physical Education professionals working in fitness centers in the cities of Juiz de Fora, MG, and Teresopolis, RJ. It is a qualitative survey with 34 professional men of Physical Education who worked in fitness centers in the cities of Teresopolis, RJ, and Juiz de Fora, MG, who were selected by snowball sampling technique. The material obtained with responses of participants to the semi-structured interview was appreciated based on content analysis. To 82.4 % (n=28) of respondents, there is a body model (thin, slender, muscular and athletic) for Physical Education professionals working in gyms. According to 17.6% (n=06) of respondents, there isn’t a body model, because each person has their uniqueness, as well as important should be the knowledge that the professional has to develop his interventions. Of the total respondents: 47.1% (n=16) are satisfied, 23.5% (n=8) are moderately satisfied and 29.4% (n=10) are dissatisfied with their bodies. In all, 85.3% (n=29) of participants would like to change some characteristic of one's physical appearance, indicating the food control, physical activity practice, the body's submission to plastic surgery, the use of food supplements and steroids anabolic like behavior that can be adopted to modify the body. It can be concluded that the sample investigated predominantly presented the belief there is body models for the Physical Education professional active in gyms, expressed different levels of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with her body and pointed out different behaviors that can be adopted to change the own physical appearance.