Author(s): PLESTED-ALVAREZ, M.C.1, ALVAREZ-DUQUE, M.E.2, Institution: UNIVERSITY OF ANTIOQUIA, Country: COLOMBIA, Abstract-ID: 2515

INTRODUCTION: The studied group consisted of 12 female athletes, between 20 and 72 years old, who, before the sports break, were in excellent physical condition and sporting athletic activities; that is, working with maximum weights in the gym or capable of maintaining infernal rhythms in running and various modalities of athletics. The applied analyses gave important results for the conclusions presented, because findings allowed us to ratify a qualitative change in each vision of life. METHODS: Three analytical modalities were applied: interviews with the participants and their coach; the study of group videos as a whole; and twice for each of the participants (at the beginning and end of the six months of training). As well as a bibliographic review of these processes. In all cases, there is informed consent. The corpus studied is made up of some who were high performers and competitive, and others returned to sport to get out of a sedentary lifestyle and recover, as far as possible, adequate sporting ability, according to their age. Also, video records (technique, resistance, and post-training behavior) and interviews as authentic and daily exchange activities were analyzed. RESULTS: In each participant, the difference was auscultated from the decline produced without training, which was greater or lesser in each person (especially if they did not take care of themselves and forgot good maintenance and sustainability practices "at rest"). The latter is understood as the time between the stoppage and the resumption of the sport. The above was compared with the tasks and competencies on the end date of the process. The interviews also took into account specific questions about the state of mind, motivation and prospect of return, because self-appreciation is essential for strengthening ones being. The improvement in the capacity of the various exercises that included the regulated practices was confirmed in the first two months; as well as the training for the initial competitions and the clear improvement in the last two months of this segment of the process of returning to the systematic sporting life of athletics. DISCUSSION: The analysis of behavior, based on gestures, posture, breathing and voice are aspects that set very important guidelines for the specific context and the correlation with the psychosocial mood of each participant. We found that as capacity was gained, joy and euphoria also increased, in some cases; as well as the motivation to continue training in the second half of the year. CONCLUSION: Returning to sport after months or years of being sedentary, especially returning to high-performance athletics, is not an easy task despite having returned to training consistently. The elderly who performed this physical activity were more coordinated. They remembered and recognized the value of the technique. Another advantage of being active again is that their mood improved, because it reduced stress and insomnia.