“…Body practices can be seen as expressive forms in which values about body, health and ultimately life area manifested (Carvalho, 2006). Body practices have been used in the Brazilian scientific literature since the beginning of the 2000's by researchers in human sciences (Lazzaroti Filho, Silva, Antunes, Silva, & Leite, 2010;Silva & Damiani, 2005), here these practices are understood as "manifestations of body culture of a given group of individuals that entail the meanings that they attribute to them...(body practices) operate according to a logic of embracement in the sense of being attentive to the people…listening to their desires and needs.." (Carvalho, 2007). There is still a preference for the use of physical activity among many segments of the academic field without the awareness that each term refer to quite program was promoted by the city council; hence its results need to be taken with caution as far as the interest in this paper is to investigate body practice within the context of primary health care.…”