Respostas psicoafetivas de idosos fisicamente ativos durante o exercício físico em diferentes ambientes

Abstract

There is evidence showing that exercise in natural environments (green or blue exercise) promotes favorable changes in psychoaffective aspects regarding those experienced indoors or urban environments. However, It is still unknown the effects of this practice in the elderly. Objective: To analyze the acute effect of physical exercise in different environments in psychoaffective responses of physically active elderly. Material and Methods: Participated of this experimental study randomized crossover type, 15 physically active elderly of both sexes (65.37 ± 5.11 years old; 29.46 ± 0.09 kg.m-², 4 men). After process of anamnesis and theoretical anchor of the instruments used, all performed five exercise sessions in three different environment: multi-sport gym (closed environment), open running track (green environment) and the beach (blue environment). The first two sessions took place in the green and blue environment to familiarize with the procedures and minimize the effect of environmental news. Only the last three sessions had the data analyzed. The exercise sessions were composed of identical protocols - 30 minutes of exercise: 5 minutes of warm-up, 20 minutes of walk with self-selected intensity and 5 minutes back calm. Before and after exercise, volunteers self-reported your current mood states with the questionnaire "Profiles of Mood States". During the walk, they reported four times their levels of effort and affect through the Perceived Exertion Scale and Feeling Scale, respectively. Moreover, it was quantified the average speed developed by them while walking. Later the analysis of normal distribution of data and homogeneity of variance, the Friedman’s ANOVA (mood) and the ANOVA for repeated measures one-way (average speed) and two-way (perception of effort and affect) analyzed the data. Adopted as statistical significance level the p < 5%. Results: In none of the three environments were changes in mood states. The levels of effort and the average speeds as well as the affective responses were equivalent in these environments. Conclusion: In elderly, physically active, one exercise session in contact with nature, be it green or blue cannot provide different affective experiences of those experienced during practice the same activity indoors.