Comunicacao Cinesica e Proxemica de Instrutores de Localizada Experientes e Estagiarios: Detecao de T-patterns/Kinesics and Proxemics Communication of Expert and Novice Group Resistance Fitness Instructors: T-patterns Detection

This present study focuses on the analyses of the fitness instructors' non-verbal communication using the observational methodology and it aims the analysis of the configuration and temporal pattern (T-patterns) of kinesics and proxemics behaviour, considering different levels of professional experience. 12 fitness instructors participate in this study, divided in two groups accordingly with their professional experience: expert group; novice group. The exercise classes were videotaped and fitness instructors' behaviours coded using the observational system for the kinesics communication of the fitness instructor and the observational system for the proxemics communication of the fitness instructor. The results revealed the existence of kinesics and proxemics temporal patterns of communication distinct for each group of instructors. It was possible to verify that expert instructors have a more consistence and complex kinesics and proxemics behaviour than the novices, which was characterized by the regulation of exerciser's behaviour, throughout their participation in exercise from a correspondent position, and the intercalation of behaviours to inform and give feedback, using more diverse morphologies of gestures.