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Title: | 'The Fittest on Earth': Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs Use Within UK CrossFit Communities | Contributor(s): | Mulrooney, Kyle J D (author) ; van de Ven, Katinka (author) | Publication Date: | 2019 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-17736-2_9 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29117 | Abstract: | While there are different harms that are related to sport/exercise (hooliganism, gambling, drug use, violence, etc.), in this chapter we are particularly interested in exploring the ‘subjective harms’ and ‘embedded harms’ associated with the exercise regime known as CrossFit, with specific attention to the use of performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs) and dietary supplements within this milieu. Drawing on the deviant leisure perspective, the chapter explores the possible ways in which CrossFitters may ‘self-harm’ in their conformity to social norms and values and specifically the cultural injunction to either perform or be aesthetically appealing and, more importantly, how these harms may be mitigated, meditated or exacerbated by a CrossFit leisure identity. The main purpose of this chapter is to (1) empirically investigate the reported prevalence of supplements and PIEDs in CrossFit within the UK, (2) examine the relationship between CrossFit and (un)healthy behaviours and practices more generally and (3) situate our findings within the broader theoretical lens of deviant leisure. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm, p. 187-211 | Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | Place of Publication: | Cham, Switzerland | ISBN: | 9783030177362 303017736X 9783030177355 3030177351 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified 160510 Public Policy |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 441011 Sociology of health 420606 Social determinants of health 440214 Sociological studies of crime |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 920504 Men's Health 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified 940303 International Organisations |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 200413 Substance abuse 230403 Criminal justice 200201 Determinants of health |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1122795210 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108441230 |
Series Name: | Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture | Editor: | Editor(s): Thomas Raymen and Oliver Smith |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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