Abstract

During the last years, physical activity and physical education classes in all age groups have been affected by the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. The objective of this research was to reveal the perceptions about the effect that physical activity produces during COVID-19 according to the discourse of students of the Physical Education Pedagogy career of the Autonomous University of Chile, Temuco campus. The method was qualitative with a case study design, where the participants were 21 Physical Education Pedagogy students. The information collection instrument was the semi-structured interview and the grounded theory was used for its analysis. It is concluded that COVID 19 increased a very high level of physical inactivity in people, which translates into a decrease in energy expenditure, a high level of stress, anxiety, which were caused by the isolation that occurred at some point.