Abstract
The objective was to develop, validate and give reliability to an instrument that evaluates the body perception on sports perfomance - PECOPS. Procedures were divided into theoretical, empirical and analytical. The content validation process was carried out by 13 experts and by 33 football players under 8 and 17 of the university. The instrument with 20 questions and two dimensions (Physical Training and Technical Training and Tactical) was applied to 230 athletes of different sport modalities and presented a satisfactory Cronbach coefficient (αtotal = 0,73); (αTF = 0,85) and (αTTT = 0,58) indicating a good internal consistency in the items of evaluation. The PECOPS revealed itself valid and useful instrument and also as a method of evaluation and perception of athleteśbodies in different sport modalities and in different moments in the training.
KEYWORDS
Training; Human body; Validation studies; Perception