Algunas razones para entender la difícil adquisición del hábito de ser activo físicamente

Abstract

The data on daily physical activity in people's lives are sometimes contradictory, but what is repeated is the low participation of many people. The population that performs physical and/or sports activity began this activity before the age of 15, showing differences between genders, after which there is a great abandonment of the practice. There is a lack of prescriptive and accurate analysis on the loss of habit at the end of the compulsory training stage and its non-consolidation among those who practice occasionally. The studies of physical exercise in its biological dimension are better understood from the perspective of human evolution and, in the behavioral aspect, from the anthropological approach. At different stages of history, human life has required more or less physical activity, humans are evolutionarily prepared "to expend enough energy, but not too much" (Liberman, 2020). The advances free us from physical effort, approaching a "sedentary ideal" that, associated with a longer life expectancy, has paradoxically led to an increase in chronic non-infectious diseases, some of which are closely related to overweight and obesity, especially in The last decades. For Lieberman (2020) human beings tend to "pragmatic adaptation to avoid non-essential physical activity" and, therefore, must have the intention of behavioral change to alter this inertial evolutionary and, now, technological course.