Implications of vehicular pollution in practicing regular physical exercise in open-air Park in the city of Presidente Prudente - SP

Abstract

The vehicular pollution may interfere with the practice of physical exercise and the quality of life of people in the urban environment. The People's Park in Presidente Prudente - SP, despite being a place with good infrastructure that provides physical exercise, is also a major hub of vehicular traffic. With regular practice of physical exercises we present benefits to the population as physical, social and affective health. In this way, this work aims to analyze the influence of the possible implications of vehicular pollution on individuals practicing regular physical exercises in the People's Park in the city of Presidente Prudente-SP. The questions that led to the accomplishment of this work are that the pollution can cause respiratory problems in the practitioners of physical exercise, and also, taking into account that we have the climate as an important variable and the best time to do physical exercise in the place presented. The hypothesis adopted is that the practitioner of physical exercise in the open environment with the presence of environmental pollution on some implication of their well being. The methodology used was the bibliographical research in selected literature and applied research with practitioners of physical activities in the People's Park, information was collected through interviews, systematic observation, an evasion pump to capture carbon monoxide present in the air of the place The determination of air pollutants will be performed through the automatic monitoring network, together with the daily values of temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, direction and wind speed and Coex for the measurement of carbon monoxide in exhaled air of participants before and after physical exercise on data collection days. During the course of the chapters, the importance of the vegetation present in the urban green parks was related to the physical exercise, therefore presented the air pollution in specific vehicular pollution and its effects on the environment and human health, following, demonstrated and contextualized the demographic characteristics Of the city and of the people's park, and above all that the place studied has great importance for city and regional development, valuing the environment and the accomplishment of physical exercise and well-being measured to the population. The results showed individuals with hemodynamic factors (PAS, PAD, FC, FR) within the normal established standard, more active presented in the IPAQ, being able to relate that the participants were stimulated and motivated by the extensive vegetation in the studied place.