Felipe Valenzuela Jurado / Omar Ricardo Ortíz Gómez / Perla Zukey Hernández Gutiérrez
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
ABSTRACTBodybuilding is aimed at developing to the maximum well-defined muscular hypertrophy, for this an adequate level of self-efficacy to physical exercise is needed. Objective: To analyze the self-efficacy to physical exercise in female bodybuilding competitors in Chihuahua, Mexico. Method: The design of this research is non-experimental, descriptive in scope, with a cross-sectional quantitative approach. The sample was selected under a non-probabilistic criterion by convenience, which consisted of 122 female bodybuilding competitors, their ages ranged between 18 and 55 years. The Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Exercise (CAE-E) validated in the Mexican version by Delgado et al. (2017) was used. Instrument measures the degree of confidence that people perceive to be physically active, questions: 1 and 2 represent the negative effects, 3 resistance to relapse and 4 and 5 to give themselves time to exercise, with respect to the score in the answers, 1 has no level, 2 low level, 3 moderate level, 4 high level and 5 very high level. Results: We observe the category, the number of competitors and the age.