Gym Bodies: Exploring Fitness Cultures

by Ian Wellard, James Brighton, Amy Clark

Book Overview

Drawing on empirical research, this fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of 'gym goers' and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces.

Gym Bodies offers a personal, interactive, ethnographic account of the multiplicity of contemporary gym practices, spaces and cultures, including bodybuilding, CrossFit and Spinning. It argues that gym bodies are historically constructed, social, sensual,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367560356
• ISBN13: 9780367560355
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"