A importância do espaço kids em academias fitness da cidade de Curitiba/PR, na perspectiva das mães

Abstract

A woman’s life tends to change a lot after becoming a mother because she now has a great responsibility in creating a new human being. Countless times, she leaves physical exercise aside, even though it is important for her well-being, to meet the demands of this new phase of life that presents itself with responsibilities that are often not shared with a support network. The objective of this work was to verify the importance of the kids space in the fitness centers in the city of Curitiba/PR, from the perspective of mothers as an incentive and aid to the new routine of those who frequent these spaces. As methodological procedures, this study is characterized as exploratory descriptive and quantitative. The sample included 150 women who have children aged from 3 to 7 years and who attended or are attending a fitness center. The applied research instrument was an online questionnaire to verify the importance attributed by the participants to the quality kids spaces in the fitness centers, in which 83.4% considered of great importance. Regarding the kids space being a determining factor for the choice of a possible gym, 94% considered that yes and 99.3% would increase their customer satisfaction if they attended a gym with kids space. Therefore, according to the present study, the Kids space is very important, and for most of them it is also a prerogative in the hiring of gym services, remembering that the physical education professional has a very important role in the lives of these mothers in relation to encouraging the practice of physical exercises.