The global panorama of physical activity and sport has changed thanks to the advancement of knowledge about the benefits of sport. Sports initiation is essential. It was proposed to determine the sociodemographic aspects of the initiation process in athletes and its relationship with family lifestyles, in Barinas, Venezuela, August-October 2023. The study is analytical, non-experimental, of correlation with a non-probabilistic sample (15 children and adolescents). The family lifestyle, sports practices in childhood and their continuity in adulthood were characterized. The Body Mass Index is applied for the anthropometric evaluation of parents and athletes and the Chi Square test (p=0.05). Results: the sample consists of nine schoolchildren (9±1 year old) and six adolescents (12±3 years old); 73% male, 47% with obesity and predominance of baseball (46%), with a practice time of 1 to 3 years (60%), socioeconomic class II (60%). Sports initiation was at school age (60%) with the aim of reducing the number of hours in front of the cell phone (53%), the parents are the promoters (73%), they suffer from overweight and obesity (parents 87%, mothers 73%), without history of playing sports in childhood or in adulthood. There was a statistically significant association between parental nutritional diagnosis and physical activity (chi2=15.38; p=0.0015). No association between parental and child nutritional diagnosis (chi2=4.23;p=0.64). The importance of modeling active lifestyles and parental intentionality as a fundamental step for sports practice is confirmed.

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