Gym Bodies

<p>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.</p><p><i>Gym Bodies</i> 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 emotional and political; that experience intersects with multiple embodied identities; and that fitness cultures are profoundly important in shaping the body in wider contemporary culture.</p><p>This is important reading for students tutors and researchers working in sport and exercise studies sociology of the body health studies leisure cultural studies gender and education. It is also a valuable resource for policy makers and practitioners within the fields of sport leisure health and education.</p>