Sport Modality Research Articles

CARTA AO EDITOR

Dear Editor,Firstly, we thank for the interest shown by the letter’s sender on our manuscript, as well as for the opportunity to clarify the highlighted issues.The intention when studying this group of street runners was to be able to expose some characteristics concerned with the nutritional aspects of a modality (street running) which has increased among the population, regardless of age, race, social and economic group, both in Brazil and worldwide. We were privileged in being able to follow this group of runners, since, despite not being classified as athletes, they keep systematic and strict training routines, with follow-up from many health professionals and who punctually participate in running events annually scheduled both in Brazil and abroad. Therefore, we are aware of the study’s limitation regarding the sample size and the results should be carefully interpreted since they are not representative of all practitioners of the modality under consideration. Nevertheless, as this is a modality which has been practiced by so many individuals, we found the results relevant in the current context and that they could contribute to enrich the understanding of professionals and researchers who either work with or appreciate topics concerned with sports nutrition as well as this sports modality. Regarding the questioning on the conclusion about the macronutrients, it is worth mentioning that the results presented and discussed considered the runners’ population studied as well as the evaluation of its food intake calculated based on the DRIs. Thus, it was not mentioned that the energetic ingestion was simply below the recommendations, rather, that when it was compared to the values suggested by the DRIs

School physical education in formation of identities of women practicing collective sports

The article relates gender identity and sport and contextualizes narratives of women engaged in sports of male tradition and predominance, from the memory of their sporting trajectories in childhood, in school physical education and in the alterities experienced in practice of sports in adulthood. The study is configured, from the methodological point of view, as participant observation carried out with young women practicing collective confrontation sports in a public leisure center in the suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The results describe the processes of insertion, confrontation, identification and permanence of these women in certain sports, in the place studied, as a space of male leisure and predominance, and the relation between these processes with childhood memory and school physical education. As a conclusion, it presents the importance of school physical education to build strategies and identity narratives which support the permanence of these women in sports modalities established as male space.

Muscle metabolism during isometric exercise performed at constant force.

Muscle metabolism during isometric exercise performed at constant force.