Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: CrossFit is considered a recent sport modality involving a crescent number of practitioners looking for both performance and health.Together with if CrossFit practice, care about the body aesthetic can be related to practitioners in this new modality, resulting in disturbances such as orthorexia and vigorexia.The aim of the study was to evaluate the profile of orthorexia and vigorexia in a Brazilian sample of CrossFit practitioners.The study included 54 practitioners with a mean age of 27.5 + 6.84 years, of which 36 were female.They answered online forms include descriptive characteristics, orthorexia (Ortho-15 questionnaire), and vigorexia responses.The results showed that orthorexic behavior was found in 14.8% of practitioners, of which 87.5% were female; 40.7 % presented severe scores of vigorexia and 3.7 % were vigorexic.Analyzing by sex, 55.5% of males were classified as severe scores for vigorexia and 41.7 % of females as low scores for vigorexia.The majority of orthorexia and severe vigorexia behavior practiced CrossFit for more than one year and do not have food planning by a nutritionist.Only 2 practitioners had orthorexia and severe vigorexia behavior.CrossFit participants demonstrated changes in eating behavior and body self-perception.Individuals with a predisposition to orthorexia engaged in regular physical activity for more than a year.Body image distortion predominated in the sample, owing to practitioners with a high risk of vigorexia having a longer period of regular physical activity practice.
Author: Dalton Luiz Schiessel
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4408126220