“It's like lifting the power”: Powerlifting, digital gendered subjectivities, and the politics of multiplicity

E Nichols, A Pavlidis, R Nowak - Leisure Sciences, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Powerlifting, a competitive strength-based sport, offers a rich and compelling site for
investigating the digital mediation of gendered subjectivities. The substantive implications of …

An analysis of new social fitness activities: loyalty in female and male CrossFit users

J García-Fernández, P Gálvez-Ruiz… - Sport in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
CrossFit is a type of high-intensity functional exercise programme in which a type of
philosophy of life and competitive sport take place together. This product is created for all …

Professional competencies as a component of professional training of a fitness trainer-teacher in higher education institutions

K Kornosenko, P Khomenko, I Taranenko, V Zhamardiy… - 2021 - digibug.ugr.es
The article presents professional competencies as an important component in the
professional training of future trainers-teachers of fitness in higher education institutions. The …

CrossFit and Self-Optimization in CrossFit's Popular Literature

E Cabanas - Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 2024 - JSTOR
CrossFit is one of the fastest growing fitness phenomena of the last decade. Considered the
largest fitness business today, CrossFit's widespread popularity has attracted increasing …

'These chicks go just as hard as us!'(Un) doing gender in a Dutch CrossFit gym

S Schrijnder, N van Amsterdam… - … Review for the …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
CrossFit is a relatively new fitness movement/sport, where women and men train together in
the same space, performing the same athletic movements and gender equality is celebrated …

CrossFit during lockdown. The promises and pitfalls of digitally mediated training for leisure-time physical activity

V Lenneis, JK Hansen, S Agergaard - Lockdown Leisure, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
The COVID-19 pandemic led to nationwide lockdowns and rigid measures of social
distancing in Denmark. Such a situation provides the unique opportunity to study …

Geographies of (Cross) fitness: an ethnographic case study of a CrossFit Box

SE Edmonds - Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
As an increasingly popular form of physical culture, CrossFit is an ideal site for the
investigation of health geographies of non-elite physical activity. In responding to Andrews …

A safe space in a strange place: A case study of the safety mechanisms of CrossFit culture

T Burø, JF Christensen… - Gender, Work & …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Based on a 1‐year ethnographic case study of a Copenhagen‐based CrossFit gym we
demonstrate how an organized training place is made physically, psychologically, and …

[图书][B] The muscle trade: the use and supply of image and performance enhancing drugs

N Gibbs - 2023 - books.google.com
The health and fitness industry has experienced a meteoric rise over the past two decades,
yet its slick exterior conceals a darker side. Using ethnographic data from gyms, interviews …

Breaking barriers? Examining neoliberal–postfeminist empowerment in women's mixed martial arts

J Hamilton - Gender & Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article problematizes claims of women's empowerment in “masculine” sports through an
exploration of women's participation in mixed martial arts (MMA)—a combat sport …