Analysis of food andfluid intake before training in adults who practice physical activities

Abstract

The food type on diet of physically active/athletes determines the maintenance of health for these individuals. This study aims to evaluate de type of food ingested previous to training for adults frequenting a gym, and to verify their habit of fluid intake during the sport practice. The sample consisted of 85 physically active from two private gyms of the city of Capão do Leão, RS, Brazil, between 18 and 60 years old. A questionnairewas applied to obtained data about demographics (gender and age), type and length of habitual training, type o food and liquid intake and socioeconomic information.This project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee. The sample’s mean age was 33.5±11.6 years old and 55.3% (n=47) were male. It was observed that 82.4% of the sample ingested some kind of food before training, most of them carbohydrate mixed to protein sources. The water intake before the activity was related for 64.7% of the sample (463.02±259.9mL). Most of the sample (82.4%) ingested, meanly, 592.6 ±435.5mL during the Sport.It was mentioned intake of other fluids during the training by 7.1% of the individual.Most of the subjects were in accordance to the recommendations related tothe type of food chosen to pre-training meal and to the fluid intake during the training.