Pandemic Health and Fitness
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Pandemic Health and Fitness

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Pandemic Health and Fitness

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About This Book

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.

This volume will appeal to scholars interested in the interdisciplinary study of fitness, in such areas as linguistic anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, health humanities, and sport studies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781003848677
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Preface
  10. Brief Description of Our Participants
  11. 1 Introduction: Pandemic Health and Fitness
  12. 2 Workout Choreography
  13. 3 Reflections and Refractions
  14. 4 Training
  15. 5 Dangers
  16. 6 Exercising Groups
  17. Conclusion: American Fitness Histories and Possible Futures
  18. References
  19. Appendix: Transcription and Abbreviation Conventions1
  20. Index