In this blog, Jennipher talks about how many stereotypes come with being an insider to a fitness room. She mentions how many people think of a fitness being a place where non-stop activity is going on with very loud pump-music in the background. Then she mentions how she owns her own fitness room and she does yoga which is a relaxing activity with very calming music.
This website will help me in my mini ethnography. It gives me great examples of certain stereotypes that come with my fieldsite. It also shows how many of these stereotypes are wrong because the person who wrote the blog was an insider.
2. Andrews, Gavin J. "Towards a geography of fitness: an ethnographic case study of the gym in British bodybuilding culture." Social Science and Medicine. 8 Aug. 2004. 18 Feb. 2009
This article talks about how the fitness room is the leading factor for a healthy lifestyle and cure against harmful diseases. It also gives the fact that bodybuilding and fitness health in Britain has grown and the British are using fitness centers much more.
I can use this in my mini ethnography because it gives me the proper research that not all fitness rooms are the same. Even though the same activities may go on inside the fitness room, the culture, being in a different country, can bring different traits like what type of music they listen to and what activities they do instead of just the original weight lifting and cardiovascular activites.
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