Becoming a Crossfit practitioner
body management inside and outside the boxes
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.116972Keywords:
Exercise training, Physical Education, Cultural Characteristics, ExerciseAbstract
Inspired by the Ethical Phase of Foucault’s thought, we consider the experiences in CrossFit as forms of body management that are fundamentally linked to the cult of the self. Therefore, the goal of this research was to analyze and discuss aspects associated with becoming a practitioner of CrossFit and how the management of their bodies, inside and outside the boxes, is related to the modality. Methodological strategies included classes observation and semi-structured interviews with 12 practitioners in different boxes of north zone, in Rio de Janeiro city. The results indicate that resilience and encouragement between practitioners constitute the main process of subjective identity of this group. It was also detected that the continuous investments in self-enhancement in the boxes defined an orderly and standardized lifestyle responsible for internalizing certain ways of being in the world that affect ultimately their way of living.
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