The nutritional supplements consumption by federate athletes in Bragança

• Autor(es): Aquino, Diana ; Gonçalves, Ana ; Guerra, Carmen ; Gomes, Ana Filipa ; Magalhães, Pedro M.
• Data: 2009
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/7580
• Origem: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Assunto(s): Nutritional supplements; Federate athletes
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

The use of nutritional supplements in sport is a pertinent subject by its indiscriminate application to athletes of many sportive modalities, to improve, apparently, the athlete sportive performance. The study main goal was evaluate the consumption of nutritional supplements by federate sportists in Bragan/la. It was built a questionnaire, submitted to a pre-test, and was administered to a population of 120 federate sportists between 9 and 36 years old. With these questionnaire were compared the supplement kinds not only with the age, gender, modality, frequency, timetable, duration of the exercise and origin of the consumption, but also with some anthropometric characteristics and food habits.