Uso de suplementos nutricionais por praticantes de atividade física em academias: uma revisão da literatura.

Abstract

The incessant search for the perfect body and standard of today's society, made people increase the demand for gyms and training centers. These environments can present themselves as showcases for the exhibition of graceful bodies, considered enviable according to beauty standards, stimulating the search for resources that enhance results, such as the consumption of food supplements, which are conceptualized as substances added to the diet, with the objective of complementing, supplying nutritional deficiencies or even improving physical performance. The present study aims to carry out a bibliographical survey about the consumption of nutritional supplements by gym goers. The selection of works took place over the months of October 2022 and December 2022, in the Scielo, Google Scholar, CAPES and Elsevier databases, in Portuguese, English and Spanish, of articles from the year 2018, using the search engines: “Nutritional Supplements”, “Performance”, “Food and physical activity”, 13 works were selected. The results were similar in all studies, with males being the biggest user of dietary supplements, used with the aim of muscle hypertrophy and increased strength. In all studies, participants used at least one type of supplement, especially those based on proteins such as whey protein. Furthermore, it is possible to conclude that there was homogeneity between the results of the studied studies, while a certain pattern was identified for consumers of dietary supplements, most of whom are men, with a high level of education, users of protein-based supplements and amino acids, bodybuilding practitioners and with the aim of gaining muscle mass and obtaining strength.