El sedentarismo es...

Abstract This text is a critical analysis of the construction of sedentary behavior and lifestyle, or "sedentariness," that circulates in the scientific literature pertaining to the field of physical activity and health in Brazil. It highlights two "families" of sedentary types that came into being in two specific historical moments: the "cooperian" sedentary, who derives from the precepts of physical fitness disseminated in Brazil at the beginning of the 1970s by Kenneth Cooper; the "agitonian" sedentary, who emerged in the mid-1990s out of the guidelines for moderate physical activity propag...