McNarry Allen-Collinson Evans 2020.Exploring positive pain in swimming.SSJ.pre print.pdf (766.87 kB)
“You always wanna be sore, because then you are seeing results”: Exploring positive pain in competitive swimming
journal contribution
posted on 2020-06-30, 09:04 authored by Gareth McNarry, Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Adam B EvansPain has long been associated with sports participation, being analyzed variously as a physical phenomenon, as well as a sociocultural construct in sport sociological literature. In this article, the authors employ a sociological–phenomenological approach to generate novel insights into the underresearched domain of “lived” pain in competitive swimming. Analytic attention is paid to specific aspects of pain, including “discomfort” and “good pain,” and how these sensations can be positively experienced and understood by the swimmers, as well as forming an integral part of the everyday routines of competitive swimming. Here, training is seen as “work” in the pursuit of athletic improvement. Discomfort and good pain thus become perceived as by-products of training, providing swimmers with important embodied information on pace, energy levels, and other bodily indicators of performance.
History
School
- University Academic and Administrative Support
Published in
Sociology of Sport JournalVolume
37Issue
4Pages
301 - 309Publisher
Human KineticsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© Human Kinetics, Inc.Publisher statement
Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Sociology of Sport Journal, 2020, 37 (4): 301-309, https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0133. © Human Kinetics, Inc.Publication date
2020-12-01Copyright date
2020ISSN
0741-1235eISSN
1543-2785Publisher version
Language
- en