Nível de coordenação e flexibilidade em mulheres praticantes de hidroginástica ou natação

Abstract

The present paper had the purpose of analyzing the levels of wide motor coordination and flexibility in apprentices of gymnastics or swimming aiming at verifying if there is difference among the groups and correlation among the variables. The group of study has been composed of 29 women aging between 21 and 40 years old enrolled in the classes of hidrogymnastic or of swimming of the Sport Association of UFSM. A questionnaire has been firstly applied in order to compose the group, selecting the subjects and separating them in two groups: GHIDRO (n=15) e GNATA (n=14). Subsequently, the evaluations of flexibility have been made through the goniometry and the wide motor coordination by using the Burpee test. The descriptive statistics with average and standard deviation, the Student test “t”, and the Pearson’s correlation were the proceedings applied for the accomplishment of the statistic treatment. The SAS was the statistic program applied and the level of significance adopted was of 5%. The results have shown that the GNATA presented better results for the general flexibility with average of 67,81º while the GHIDRO had an average of 63,23º. On the other hand, the wide motor coordination had higher results for the GHIDRO which presented average of 12,86 repetitions while the GNATA had average of 11,71. Starting from the verification of the differences of capacities among the modalities, it was possible to observe that they were statistically significant (p=0,03) in the flexibility favorable to GNATA. However, there was no difference for the motor coordination. In the attempt of verifying the relation among the capacities within the same group we have noticed that there was no correlation (p=0,11) for the GNATA. Although, that correlation was significant (p=0,04) and positive for GHIDRO. Therefore, it was concluded that the GNATA showed better results regarding flexibility and the GHIDRO regarding motor coordenation.