Traditional dances aimed at increasing physical activity in university students with sedentary behaviors.

Abstract

A sedentary lifestyle constitutes a challenge in the current technological context, which is why it is considered today one of the main risk factors for highly prevalent diseases. Sedentary behaviors are materialized expressions of this phenomenon that in young people have become a universal problem. The present investigation was implemented at the Jesús Montané Oropesa University of the Isla de la Juventud, Cuba with the objective of assessing the effect of the implementation of a proposal of traditional dances aimed at increasing physical activity in university students with sedentary behaviors, to which as part of the theoretical and empirical methods were used. As a result of this work, the sedentary behaviors present in the students were identified, based on the activities carried out in their daily routine, family history of chronic non-communicable diseases, as well as their BMI, in addition to a proposal of traditional dances aimed at increasing physical activity in them. The development of the experimental phase with the dances achieved a significant reduction in body weight as well as a significant increase in the percentage of students who recognized the importance of physical activity for their health and sedentary behaviors identified in the initial diagnosis were reduced.