THE PRACTICE OF THE LEISURE AND THE RECREATION AS MOTIVATION: A REVISION OF LITERATURE

Abstract

The leisure is an activity in which the individual is free of delivery will be after desvencilhado of their duties, family, religious and social. The recreation is just one of the forms of recreation, which stimulates social interaction intense and enjoyable. Working with the recreation adults and elderly back many positive results because they will feel part of a group, feeling useful to our society. The project's goal is to offer a program of leisure and recreation project proposed by "Rescuing the Autonomy, Promoting the Quality of Life Through Form of Recreation and Leisure for adults and elderly of the City of Ipatinga" which began in August 2003, and it is composed of 70 women are divided into 2 classes of 35 participants, aged between 40 and 79 years. The activities offered for leisure and recreation aimed at maintaining and improving the physiological and psychosocial benefits that the practice of sport as a form of entertainment provided by promoting the improvement of the quality of life and therefore the autonomy of these individuals. The results indicate that the practice of recreation behind psychosocial benefits to individuals as: improvement of the well-being, selfesteem, quality of life making them more autonomous.