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Pandemic Health and Fitness

Pandemic Health and Fitness

Perrino, Sabina M.
Reno, Joshua O.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Health Humanities

LinguisticsSports General

ISBN10: 1032328525
ISBN13: 9781032328522
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 13 2024
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book adopts an innovative approach in exploring the evolution of fitness practices among a community of gym goers amid a global pandemic, considering its impact on the interplay of the words, habits, and relationships gym goers use in realizing their aspirations of wellness and well-being.

Perrino and Reno introduce a multilayered framework which combines insights from linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, integrating narrative analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnography, with autoethnography. This approach allows for a holistic portrait of the gym as a research site and of fitness as a fruitful area for dynamic cross-disciplinary study. The volume explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped attitudes and practices around fitness, drawing on audio and video recordings and the authors' lived experiences to analyze everything from workout choreography to micro-celebrity fitness culture to group classes. The book raises key questions around what it means to be well amid a pandemic, the practical dangers of realizing fitness goals in such times, the effects on the social relationships inherent to gym culture, and the impact on identity construction and self-reflection.

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