ANALYSIS OF STRESS AND RECOVERY IN THE SPORTING PERFORMANCE OF AMATEUR AMERICAN FOOTBALL ATHLETES

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1593712308094

• Palavras-chave: Stress. Recovery. Physiotherapy. American football.

• Keywords: Stress. Recovery. Physiotherapy. American football.

• Abstract:

  American football is a contact sport, which emerged from a rugbye variation and which is based on individual physical strengths and team play, with the objective of advancing to the scoring zone. As it is a high-contact sport, stress among athletes is inevitable; recovery, in turn, is neglected in the training regime. The present study aimed to analyze the perception of stress and recovery in the sports performance of amateur American football athletes through the Restq-Sport-76 questionnaire, using it in an uncontrolled clinical study during a period of 12 months. The same was carried out at the Training Center of the American Football Team Maceió Marechais and 56 male athletes aged between 16 and 36 years were evaluated. The values obtained in the mean of the stress and recovery scales of the experienced athletes were considered moderate levels, while the non-experienced group obtained means of low stress and moderate recovery. It was concluded from this study that the level of recovery from sports stress can be considered satisfactory. Therefore, it is understood as important the development of a state of physical and mental recovery and the identification of their profile, to avoid the deleterious effects of focusing only on training volume. More studies must be carried out in this line, since it is a sport on the rise in Brazil.