what is the difference between those who can keep exercising no matter how tired they are?
2024-09-23
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according to the "china economic life survey", 55.1% of the chinese population has less than 2 hours of leisure time per day, excluding work and sleep, and 24.5% of them have less than 1 hour. at the same time, hot words such as "weight loss", "muscle gain" and "finding a workout partner" often dominate the social media. sports and fitness activities are still very popular in a social environment where people's leisure time is strongly squeezed.
why do modern people voluntarily go to the gym to "suffer"? what is the behavioral logic behind the phenomenon of "fitness fever"? what changes will it bring to the mainstream aesthetics of society? the paper invited li jiayu, a doctor from the school of physical education of south china normal university, to talk about the behavior and phenomenon of "fitness fever".
those who keep exercising
@chakk: why do some people still insist on exercising when work is so tiring?
li jiayu:the answer to this question varies from person to person. according to my experience, first of all, some people look at their own or people around them with abnormal physical examination reports, and combined with the fitness culture that is deeply rooted in people's hearts, they have a strong desire to exercise. because they are influenced by the fitness culture, they have increasingly deepened their recognition of these views: fitness can not only help the human body consume excess energy, improve blood lipid metabolism, and reduce the occurrence of obesity; it can also help people build a strong physique, maintain good physical strength, and effectively curb "physical degeneration."
as jennifer smith-maguire, a professor of consumer sociology in the uk, pointed out: fitness emerged from the parallel process of individualism and consumerism, and health, along with identity and social mobility, is considered an individual's obligation and responsibility. it is worth mentioning that the reason why some people are willing to exercise is not just to keep fit, but also to worry about long-term mental stress, excessive screen time, long periods of sitting and other problems that may induce physical and mental illnesses, which will make them passive in the increasingly fierce competition for social resources and jobs.
secondly, there are people who release stress through exercise and fitness. while "sweating hard", they can relieve their tense or even depressed mental state and relax themselves.
thirdly, there are people who simply like fitness. just like people do what they like in their spare time, they do not need to "grit their teeth and persist" in participating in sports and fitness, but because fitness can naturally become a way to put themselves into a "flow" state. finally, of course, there are many other reasons that are difficult to exhaust. after all, how to spend your time/spend your life is a very individual choice.
@alan xu: i am a college student who loves sports. i like running, swimming, and basketball. although i am sometimes very tired from studying in class, i can still find fun and comfort in sports. can you explain this principle from a professional perspective?
li jiayu:i'm glad to see that you have such an experience! i want to answer your question from the perspective of "body feeling". my junior sister did a study before and summarized the six main body feelings of fitness people: "pain", "light", "hard", "sweat", "heat" and "being watched". i believe that the reason why you can experience the fun of exercise is probably because you feel the pain, "light" and "sweat"!
@阿虾大侠: teacher, compared to the "white, thin and young" in the past, now tanned people and muscular lines with signs of exercise are seen as healthy and wealthy. isn't this also a new aesthetic hegemony?
li jiayu:whether it is "white, thin, young" or big muscles, many similar evaluation standards are constructed in a specific social and cultural context (such as the cruel foot binding and waist binding in the past), and it is difficult for individuals to fight against or even change these evaluation standards. however, if we look at the long history of human evolution, these standards have been changing.
although i think that the standards you mentioned can be regarded as aesthetic hegemony, what is more important is that we also need to try to deepen our thinking ability and explore which groups hold the right to speak and what kind of interest relations are hidden behind these standards. perhaps only when we have enough independent thinking ability can we understand where such diverse values come from, and to a certain extent avoid being led by the so-called trend and ignoring what is really important.
some popular sports nowadays
@且慢乐同: for girls, should they practice more yoga or lift weights? my muscles are very weak~
li jiayu: sports themselves do not have strict gender divisions. although it is likely that most of the people around us who participate in yoga practice are women, in fact men can also do well in yoga. in fact, the latter may even be more suitable for yoga in terms of physiological structure.
as for what you said about weak muscles, it depends on whether your muscle mass can meet the needs of your daily life and work. if you still hope to have more obvious muscle lines on this basis, then it involves your aesthetic views (some people think that angular muscles are the body they expect, but some people don’t like their muscle lines, and of course some people don’t care about these things about muscles), so you still have to understand where your ideas come from and then decide how to act.
@坐树不言: what kind of sports have the potential to become internet celebrities?
li jiayu:this question may be the research scope of sports communication, which is beyond my knowledge. however, i think this question is very interesting, and i can boldly guess "what single or multiple conditions are needed to become an internet celebrity", including but not limited to -
·there are well-known people (people with their own traffic) participating in the campaign;
the sport has become controversial (frisbee, high altitude mountaineering, etc.)
· newly popular sports with a surge in participation in sports practice (pickleball);
sports that have been performed at a high level of competition (table tennis, break dancing, skateboarding, etc.).
@只是不易: why do young people now also start practicing ba duan jin? is it really useful?
li jiayu:from a cultural perspective, it is not surprising that the fitness-oriented, easy-to-learn ba duan jin, as part of china's excellent traditional culture, has been recognized and participated by more and more people. as for whether it is useful, it is difficult to generalize, especially considering whether the exercises are standard, whether the frequency and intensity of exercises are reasonable, and whether the practitioners themselves have underlying diseases/physical movement limitations. generally speaking, moderate movement is more or less beneficial to maintaining health than sitting for a long time/lying like ge you. the key is to find the type and mode of exercise that suits you.
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