ANALYSIS OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN WOMEN PRACTICING PILATES AND CROSSFIT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY (Atena Editora)

Abstract

Modern society has demanded from its population a working day increasingly leading to a decline in the population's quality of life (QOL). Women, who often face a double shift, are the most affected. QOL is the perception of physical, psychological and social health in daily activities, it is not related only to the absence or presence of diseases. Pilates and Crossfit are techniques that can increase the perception of QOL. OBJECTIVE: To compare the quality of life of women who practice pilates and crossfit. METHOD: This is a qualitative bibliographic review carried out in the SciELO, PubMed and Google Scholar databases, using the keywords: “pilates and quality of life” and “crossfit and quality of life”, as well as the same descriptors in English, articles were selected in Portuguese, Spanish and English, published in the time frame of the last 10 years (2010-2020). There were 42 articles related to pilates and 22 articles corresponding to the second search, totaling 64 articles, of which 31 were excluded for not meeting the criteria of this research, 20 were excluded because they were outside the proposed time frame, finally, they were selected for this review the total of 13 articles. RESULTS: The results attest that the two techniques are efficient for increasing the quality of life of those who practice them. CONCLUSION: Due to the amount of studies related to pilates and its influence on the quality of life, this method proved to be superior to crossfit with regard to scientific evidence, however it appears that there is a need for further studies on the subject to, in fact , attest to the efficiency of both methods, as well as the superiority of one in relation to the other.