Taekwondo's body awareness levels and healthy nutrition observations

In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the body awareness and healthy eating obsession status of taekwondo athletes according to various variables. A total of 637 athletes, 383 (male) and 254 (female) competing in the senior and junior categories participated in the study. Personal information form, Body Awareness, and Ortho-15 scales were applied to these athletes. Statistical analyses were performed in the SPSS program and the significance level was evaluated as p<0.05. In this study, when the gender, marital status, physical appearance satisfaction, age, and education level variables of the participants were examined, there was a significant difference in body awareness (p<0.05), while there was no significant difference in body awareness in the variables of national athlete, years of doing sports and nationality level (p>0.05). When the gender, national athlete, physical appearance satisfaction, and nationality level variables of the participants were examined, there was a significant difference in healthy eating obsession (p<0.05), while there was no significant difference in marital status, age, education level and years of doing sports (p>0.05). As a result, it can be said that taekwondo athletes have high body awareness levels, and in terms of their orthorexia nervosa (healthy eating obsession) status, they have normal eating behavior. Keywords: Taekwondo, Sports, Body Awareness, Healthy Eating Obsession