ATIVIDADE FÍSICA E SEDENTARISMO ENTRE ESCOLARES DO ENSINO MÉDIO

Abstract

This study aimed to identify what the academic production of Physical Education in Brazil brings about physical activity / physical inactivity among high school students. For that, it followed the specific objectives: to raise articles that talk about physical activity / physical inactivity of high school students in online academic research tools; identify levels of physical activity / physical inactivity shown in these studies; organize these numbers, bringing results about physical activity / physical inactivity of students. The methodology used was bibliographic research and the data collection sources were the CAPES Journal Portal and Scielo. Following the defined criteria, eleven articles were found that brought information from adolescents aged 10 to 19 years old, students from public and private schools, from four regions of our country. It was concluded that, among the investigated adolescents, more than half had sedentary behaviors and low levels of physical activity. Girls are more sedentary than boys and boys are overweight. Also, we can say that these indexes are related to the lifestyle changes of adolescents, mainly, influenced by the excessive time in front of television and other technologies.