Nutrição básica e esportiva: uma avaliação do nível de conhecimento entre praticantes de musculação em academias

Abstract

This work has had as objective to evaluate the knowledge on basic nutrition and sports nutrition among weight-training practitioners in gyms of the city Trindade – GO. This is treated as a cross-sectional study that was carried out with 267 weight-training practitioners, the data were obtained through questionnaires. The results demonstrated that the practitioners presented a moderated knowledge on basic and sports nutrition, however not satisfactory yet. So, it shows, more and more, the necessity of implementing nutritionists in gyms for a better knowledge and adequated guidance for each weight-training practitioners.