“Protecting the Gift”: Risk, Parental (Ir)responsibility, and<i>CrossFit Kids Magazine</i>

Couture, Jesse

doi:10.1123/ssj.2017-0074

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“…This body of work addresses key issues related to the intersectional modalities of inequality that are represented and often reified in crossfit cultures. Couture (2019) , for example, draws on a critical discourse analysis of CrossFit Kids Magazine to illuminate the ways in which children are represented through the duality of “at-risk” subjects but also as “in-progress” future citizens, resulting in the promotion of active children and proactive parenting based primarily in individual risk management. Knapp (2015a , 2015b ) illuminates how ideal femininity and hegemonic masculinity are at once reified but also resisted in the CrossFit Journal and in the gym.…”

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CrossFit and “Cancel Culture”: Probing Practitioners’ Responses to the “Canceling” of Greg Glassman

Spencer,

Silva,

DiTecco

et al. 2023

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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In this article, we explore the responses of crossfit practitioners to the ‘canceling’ of Greg Glassman in the aftermath of racist tweets and comments made in response to the killing of George Floyd. We draw on 50 interviews with crossfit practitioners to understand how they interpret and respond to the ‘canceling’ of Greg Glassman and the disavowal of CrossFit by prominent CrossFit athletes and organizations. We probe how athletes, regardless of levels of involvement, in the wake of Glassman's comments respond to the refiguring of the sporting community of CrossFit. A cancel culture continuum from affirmation to rejection emerged from the interview data that typified their views of cancel culture, Greg Glassman's removal from CrossFit HQ, and the current state of the sport. We conclude with a discussion of the phenomena of canceling or cancel culture and reflects on crossfit as a sport in light of the Glassman affair.

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CrossFit and “Cancel Culture”: Probing Practitioners’ Responses to the “Canceling” of Greg Glassman

Spencer,

Silva,

DiTecco

et al. 2023

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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“…Also beyond the scope of this research—or any textual analysis—is forming an understanding of how audiences might interpret the messages contained in these YouTube documentaries. While media research on CrossFit is scarce in general, what is available has focused on texts rather than audience (see Couture, 2019; Knapp, 2014; Washington & Economides, 2016). This analysis has raised a number of questions about the consumers of these documentaries.…”

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Reinvention Through CrossFit: Branded Transformation Documentaries

McCarthy

2019

Communication & Sport

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This article analyses a set of branded promotional documentaries from the CrossFit YouTube channel, which depict new participants as they transition into a CrossFit lifestyle. These documentaries share narrative elements of reality makeover television’s hybrid entertainment/educational format, deploying popular tropes of reinvention and personal empowerment through guided consumption. In focusing largely on participants dealing with chronic health issues, the documentaries reproduce dominant neoliberal ideologies about personal responsibility for health through fitness and construct CrossFit as a socially engaged brand with an inclusive fitness mission. These documentaries may also mitigate dominant, intimidating media images of high-performing CrossFit competitors who embody the brand image, as well as CrossFit’s reputation as an extreme fitness practice. This article takes Dawson’s (2017) position that CrossFit is a contemporary reinventive institution, which makes omnivorous demands of its adherents’ lives in exchange for personal transformation. In these documentaries, participants’ successful transition into exemplary CrossFit membership hinges not only on capitulation to these demands but recognition of them as desirable steps toward self-making and health. Reinvention is depicted as willing conformity to CrossFit values and behaviours, rather than simply the achievement of physical fitness, and those who successfully transform are constructed as aspirational embodiments of the brand.

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A war between football fans and the government from the perspective of Herbert Blumer’s collective behaviour theory

Jasny

Lenartowicz

2021

Sport in Society

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This study uses Herbert Blumer's theory of collective behaviour and stages of the collective social definition of the problem to analyse print media discourse concerning domestic politics-related fan activity among Polish football fans prior to the Euro 2012 football championships finals. We describe and explain each stage of the escalating conflict, the wave of football fan protests, political reactions, and the measures undertaken to resolve the problem. A qualitative textual content analysis of media discourse was applied to 68 press articles that were published in the first half of 2011 in Przegląd Sportowy, the oldest sport newspaper in Poland. The results lead to the conclusion that all five stages of the process were clear-cut during the analysed period of political tension between the fans and the government, and that Blumer's concept proves to be a viable means of analysing social problems related to contemporary sport fandom.

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“Protecting the Gift”: Risk, Parental (Ir)responsibility, andCrossFit Kids Magazine

Cited by 4 publications

References 51 publications

CrossFit and “Cancel Culture”: Probing Practitioners’ Responses to the “Canceling” of Greg Glassman

CrossFit and “Cancel Culture”: Probing Practitioners’ Responses to the “Canceling” of Greg Glassman

Reinvention Through CrossFit: Branded Transformation Documentaries

A war between football fans and the government from the perspective of Herbert Blumer’s collective behaviour theory

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