Experiencias imaginarios y significados de cuerpo-sí mismo asociados a prácticas de transformación corporal en usuarios de gimnasios y centros de actividad física en Bogotá

Abstract

This project is part of the work of the research group Body, Subject and Education of the Faculty of Physical Culture of the University of Santo Tomás, which from the line of Interpretations of the body from the social and human sciences seeks to contribute elements to the complex understanding of the body, with support in the qualitative-hermeneutic epistemological paradigm, so that multiple perspectives are integrated in it, with a view to complexify the training process of students of human sciences of physical activity. The present work presents the most important understandings about the body found in western literature, proposed by philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, and natural scientists, exposed as a conceptual foundation. Through open and in-depth interviews developed with 34 gym users, 20 men and 14 women, information was collected about the factors that intervene in the way in which the subjects mean their practices as experiences of body transformation, the components and symbolic dimensions of body work, the body image constructed in the practices, the life experiences that guide them, the referents of well-being that underlie self-care, as well as the irruption of the market and the media in the configuration of the archetype of beauty and the perception and subjective construction of the body-subject.The information was organized through descriptive and relational matrices, according to the analytical categories defined a priori, from whose analysis and interpretation emerge some possible understandings and actions to avoid cultural uprooting and the construction of a new pedagogical and pragmatic approach for the construction of physical culture in contexts such as gyms and CAF.