The rationalization of leisure time - the scarcity of emotional excitement in a health promoting exercise intervention for women
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The rationalization of leisure time - the scarcity of emotional excitement in a health promoting exercise intervention for women. / Hybholt, Maria Gliemann; Thing, Lone Friis.
I: Annals of Leisure Research, Bind 22, Nr. 4, 2019, s. 532-549.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The rationalization of leisure time - the scarcity of emotional excitement in a health promoting exercise intervention for women
AU - Hybholt, Maria Gliemann
AU - Thing, Lone Friis
N1 - CURIS 2019 NEXS 250
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The aim of this article is to understand how the established biomedical perspective on the body enables and constrains participation in physical activity. Based on a sociological standpoint, an exercise intervention with middle-aged women is analysed through empirical material from observation (N=57), focus groups (N=51) and individual follow-up interviews (N=21). The article finds that spinning[i] is a highly routinized and structured activity that entails a prevailing health promoting control of the emotions to complete and a scarcity of emotional excitement. The article concludes that the biomedical perspective involves a rationalization of leisure time that excludes the emotional excitement usually associated with sports. The emotional body should not be neglected when the (in)active body is problematized in public health. Additionally, participation in long-term exercise would be more likely if couched in an understanding of the activity as an aim in itself.
AB - The aim of this article is to understand how the established biomedical perspective on the body enables and constrains participation in physical activity. Based on a sociological standpoint, an exercise intervention with middle-aged women is analysed through empirical material from observation (N=57), focus groups (N=51) and individual follow-up interviews (N=21). The article finds that spinning[i] is a highly routinized and structured activity that entails a prevailing health promoting control of the emotions to complete and a scarcity of emotional excitement. The article concludes that the biomedical perspective involves a rationalization of leisure time that excludes the emotional excitement usually associated with sports. The emotional body should not be neglected when the (in)active body is problematized in public health. Additionally, participation in long-term exercise would be more likely if couched in an understanding of the activity as an aim in itself.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Women
KW - Middle aged
KW - Spinning
KW - Physical activity
KW - Leisure time
KW - Emotions
KW - Health
KW - Elias
KW - Exercise intervention
U2 - 10.1080/11745398.2018.1515638
DO - 10.1080/11745398.2018.1515638
M3 - Journal article
VL - 22
SP - 532
EP - 549
JO - Annals of Leisure Research
JF - Annals of Leisure Research
SN - 1174-5398
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 201227705