Profissional de educação física x recursos midiáticos: a busca da prática de exercício físico durante a pandemia do covid-19

Abstract

COVID-19 was a disease discovered in China, characterized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic in March 2020. Many countries in the world have implemented social isolation as a strategy to contain the transmission of the virus. Isolation that has led society to reorganize its routine seeking new strategies to perform routine activities, one of which is the practice of physical activities. This study aims to investigate the use of social media as the main tool for the practice of physical exercise to the detriment of the performance of the physical education professional by people in social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Data were collected through an online questionnaire, with 592 participants, with a mean age of 32.3 years (SD = 10.5), who were in social isolation for an average of 14.4 days (SD = 3.3 ), from March to April 2020. The instruments used were created to carry out this study with the objective of evaluating the exercise routine of the participants, as was the routine of physical activity before confinement, if there was monitoring of a physical education professional and how was the routine during isolation. It was found that the use of media resources for the practice of physical exercise grew significantly during isolation when compared to its use before the pandemic. And that exercises considered low cost and mild to moderate difficulty were the most practiced in this period. It is concluded that the majority of the practitioners sought to remain active through easy access and low cost exercises, in addition to the majority not choosing to have a professional accompaniment during the period in which they remained in social isolation, giving priority to training available in the media social.