Hidroginástica para a Comunidade Sítio dos Pintos: projeto de extensão na UFRPE.

Abstract

The Universities are constituted with three pillars, research, teaching and extension, the extensions has the function of, made the knowledge produced inside the campus come to the community who lives around, it is a very important social commitment. In this sense, the present study seeks to analyze as the Sítio dos Pintos community in the area around the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), realize the benefits of the extension project called Hidroginástica na UFRPE. To achieve this goal, the specific objectives were outlined: Present the historical and legal context of the Extension Project at the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco and the Hydrogynastic Extension Project for the Sítio dos Pintos/Recife-PE Community; identify the reasons and needs that make the participants of the Extension Project seek hydrogynastics as physical activity; Present the participants' perception of healthrelated aspects as participants of the Hydrogynastic Project for the Sítio dos Pintos community. The methodology was a qualitative one, descriptive research in the field of search. the sample was adults and elderly people who attend the hydrogymnastics project in the interpretation of data, the theory of motivation and emotion was used, the results point out that what motivated the subject to seek water aerobics was physical pain, this is found in the biological motifs, located at the base of the pyramid, but what causes the adhesion are the benefits, perceived through weel-being, relating the biological to the social, implying the quality of life of the practicing community, especially the elderly people.