Krugly Sandra, Tucker Jason
Department of Sports Science, Faculty of Learning and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
Department of Global Political Studies, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
Front Sports Act Living. 2024 Oct 21;6:1411176. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1411176. eCollection 2024.
The research presented here explores the nuances of data collection and sharing via digital platforms in everyday CrossFit coaching practice. There is a growing body of work on data and digital platforms in CrossFit, though currently there is a lack of understanding of the role of coaches in these processes. Empirically grounding the digital fitness practices of CrossFit coaching is essential for our understanding of the sport, as well as to critically engage with the dominant socio-technical narratives of the digital fitness revolution: narratives that obscure the agency of coaches. This research foregrounds the coaches' agency and lived experiences, focusing on their everyday coaching practices around data and digital platforms. Six semi-structured in-depth interviews with CrossFit coaches in Sweden were undertaken in 2023. These focused on if, when, how and why they collect, or encourage their participants to collect, data on their training and share this via digital platforms. The findings reveal several different, though interrelated, areas where the CrossFit coaches can be seen as mediating between often competing narratives around data and digital platforms. These everyday practices include mediating between group vs. individual training, data collection and sharing vs. "moving well", CrossFit's methodology of quantification of fitness vs. the needs of the participants and navigating the techno-solutionist vs. reductionist narratives around digital fitness tracking.
本文所呈现的研究探讨了在日常CrossFit教练实践中，通过数字平台进行数据收集和共享的细微差别。关于CrossFit中数据和数字平台的研究工作越来越多，不过目前对于教练在这些过程中的作用缺乏了解。基于实证来探究CrossFit教练的数字健身实践，对于我们理解这项运动至关重要，同时也有助于批判性地参与到数字健身革命中占主导地位的社会技术叙事中：这些叙事掩盖了教练的作用。这项研究突出了教练的作用和实际经历，重点关注他们围绕数据和数字平台的日常教练实践。2023年，对瑞典的CrossFit教练进行了六次半结构化深度访谈。这些访谈聚焦于他们是否、何时、如何以及为何收集或鼓励参与者收集关于其训练的数据，并通过数字平台分享这些数据。研究结果揭示了几个不同但相互关联的领域，在这些领域中，CrossFit教练可被视为在围绕数据和数字平台的往往相互冲突的叙事之间进行调解。这些日常实践包括在团体训练与个人训练之间、数据收集和共享与“动作规范”之间、CrossFit的健身量化方法与参与者需求之间进行调解，以及在围绕数字健身追踪的技术至上主义与简化主义叙事之间进行权衡。
