RESISTANCE TRAINING AND ITS EFFECT ON PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN FLUTISTS
musician's health, psychological disorders, physical exercise, quality of life.
Musical performance can be influenced by the musician's quality of life. Daily habits and lifestyle are determining factors for the occurrence of excessive physical discomfort and possible psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression that can compromise the musician's performance and/or studies and even lead to the interruption of his/her activities, due to medical care or treatment. Based on this assumption, it can be considered that the practice of physical exercise provides the musician with the opportunity to gain strength, endurance and muscular preparation aiming at a good instrumental performance. In addition, it is possible that this practice is beneficial for the prevention of physical discomfort and for the non-drug treatment of psychological disorders. The present study aims to verify the effect of resistance training, for upper limbs and trunk, on the physical and psychological parameters of flutists from the city of São João del-Rei (MG). To this end, flute students from the Music course at the Federal University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ) and students from the Padre José Maria Xavier State Conservatory of Music were invited, totaling 12 participants subdivided into two distinct groups, named as follows: intervention (IG), with 6 participants and control (CG), also with 6 participants. The IG was distinguished from the CG by having undergone training with resistance physical exercises, twice a week and one day of walking, for a period of 12 weeks. To investigate the possible effects of the training, the anthropometric parameters of the participants were measured: body weight, height and wingspan, heights, lengths and diameters. Each participant was also subjected to flexibility tests (Wells Bench), strength and resistance of the upper limbs and each of them also answered the DASS-21 questionnaire, to obtain data related to psychological disorders. The results after training did not show any changes in the participants' anthropometric parameters or body composition. However, in the parameters of resistance and strength of the upper limbs and in the depression and anxiety scores, the participants in the IG showed improvements after training. Thus, it can be concluded that the practice of the proposed resistance exercises had a positive effect on the gain of strength and resistance in the participants' upper limbs, in addition to being efficient in reducing the anxiety and depression scores