Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29117
Title: 'The Fittest on Earth': Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs Use Within UK CrossFit Communities
Contributor(s): Mulrooney, Kyle J D  (author)orcid ; van de Ven, Katinka  (author)orcid 
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
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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