Abstract
Many of the messages we receive about fitness can undermine well-being and promote bodily dissatisfaction and intersectional injustice. To address this, I argue in this essay that we should broaden the goals of fitness to include preparation for life events such as aging, disability, reproduction, and death. Using the example of death, I show how sport and exercise can prepare us physically and psychologically for dying with greater meaning and equanimity—and, in the process, support greater well-being in life. Such preparation can also strengthen our resistance to sources of bodily dissatisfaction, personal unhappiness, and intersectional injustice in fitness and health related contexts.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Subject
Philosophy,Health (social science),Gender Studies