Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs write by Ask Vest Christiansen. This book was released on 2020-05-27. Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there. Building on the international research literature and in-depth interviews with men who have experience of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), the book explores the fascination with muscles, motivations for using drugs to enhance them, assessments of risks, and experience of side effects. The book examines what the altered body does to the men’s identity, self-image and relationships with peers and partners. Taking an evolutionary psychological approach, it also investigates the biological and psychological foundations of the fascination with the muscular body and discusses the notion of precarious manhood. Building on these analyses the book considers the political and regulatory initiatives in place to prevent the use of IPEDs and assesses those strategies’ potential to reach their aims. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the issue of drugs in sport, the ethics of sport, sociology of sport, sociology of the body, masculinity or public health.
Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances
Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances write by Aaron Smith. This book was released on 2018-06-18. Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the pursuit of more muscle, enhanced strength, sustained endurance and idealised physiques, an increasing number of elite athletes, recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS). In many instances, such use occurs with little regard for the health, social and economic consequences. This book presents a nuanced, evidence-based examination of PIEDS. It provides a classification of PIEDS types, physical impacts, rates of use, user profiles, legal and sporting status, and remedial program interventions, covering both elite and recreational use. It offers the perfect guide to assist students, government policy makers and sport managers in understanding the complex issues surrounding PIEDS consumption.
Fitness Doping
Fitness Doping - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fitness Doping write by Jesper Andreasson. This book was released on 2019-06-25. Fitness Doping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society. Drawing on biographical interviews, as well as online and offline ethnography, Andreasson and Johansson analyse how, in the context of the global development of gym and fitness culture, particular doping trajectories are formulated, and users come into contact with doping. They also explore users’ internalisation of particular values, practices and communications and analyse how this influences understandings of the self, health, gender and the body, as well as tying this into wider beliefs regarding individual freedom and the law. This insight into doping goes beyond elite and organised sports, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the sociology of sport, leisure studies, and gender and body politics.
Fitness Culture
Fitness Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fitness Culture write by Roberta Sassatelli. This book was released on 2010-08-16. Fitness Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and distinction dynamics within contemporary cultures of consumption.
Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies
Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies write by Jesper Andreasson. This book was released on 2021-06-30. Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why has doping, both as a practice and a social phenomenon, been approached largely as a question of context: sport or fitness? Individuals may use substances to enhance sporting performance or within the framework of gym and fitness culture to create a perfect body. But clearly, people who dope are not bound to a singular context. It is quite the opposite, as individuals weave between and move across various settings in their trajectories to and from doping, as goals, identities, ambitions, and lifestyles change over time. Still, these stark categorizations often made in public discourse – and reinforced by scholars – have continued to ignore these lived experiences and limited our understanding of doping. Building on data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork, studies of online doping communities, and in-depth case studies, this book embraces the challenge of moving beyond traditional and historical doping dichotomies – such as those of sport or fitness, online or offline, pleasure or harm, masculinity or femininity, and health or harm – and, in a sociologically informed analysis, it develops new terminology to understand trajectories to and from doping. It argues there are multiple ways to understand doped bodies and doping practices, and that we must approach these questions from the perspective of both/and rather than either/or. By imploding these divisions, it offers updated and nuanced ways of both empirically and theoretically rethinking doping use and experiences attached to the practice.
