THE PERSON AND THE MIRROR: WHAT THEY SAW AND WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE

Abstract

After the musculation practitioners and we saw that go to a gym become a social activity that not only the search for health and the quality in life take people to that place. Consider the social character in this activity we note that questions as body esthetic, the image and physical vigor and the ideal body are diffuse in the society an, consequently, in the gyms. That the esthetic was one factor in the motivation to the frequency in activities would not be bother, in relation to the ample knowledge about this subject, but this phenomenon unfolding in the esthetic search through the workout present questions that deserve investigation care. To clarify some esthetics questions relatives to imaginative, we realized a work in three gyms in Viçosa/MG, chose by students' amount and recognition in the area. In each gym was realized accompaniment with a group with 10 practitioners, in differents sorts. It was made first diagnosis about the reasons that made the persons started to workout, as the history as practitioners in this activity. Moreover also was produced a notebook with base in practitioners' observations. We have sure that the reflection in a new body expect by the gym's practitioners is an esthetic social question. The person work in the bodies' function in the perspective in search in the bodies standards accept as beauty by the society.