Corpos no “limite” e risco à saúde na musculação: Etnografia sobre dores agudas e crônicas

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate and discuss how the acute and chronic pain can be conceived by users and Physical Education teachers in resistance training at two different Fitness Centers. The ethnographical research was developed in two establishments located in neighborhoods with some socioeconomic differences at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 12 months in a small Fitness Center and ten months at the bigger one. It was possible to see that the gender and social class aspects influenced the way that some groups understood the body “limits” related to pains and risks. Despite of the biomedical aspect visualized in the teacher intervention to face the symptoms and the risk, the work was influenced by the context of the Fitness Center. The result showed the importance of the ethnographical investigations about the body and heath-disease in unfamiliar contexts.