ABSTRACT
The gym provides a different form of enjoyment and is a complete contrast to the more social aspects. There is an obvious social and historical context to the gym that needs to be accommodated. Thinking about time and space opens up a multitude of explanations for participation in physical activity and, in this case, going to the gym. The additional acknowledgement of time and space highlights how pleasure can be seen to be connected with geographical aspects of both personal experiences and social encounters. Consequently, the circuit describes pleasure in terms of a continually 'moving' process that includes an embodied experience that is influenced to varying degrees by broader social discourses of knowledge, elements of anticipation, experience and reflection as well as physical sensation. The circuit of body-reflexive pleasure (BRP) was presented as a way of acknowledging embodied enjoyment as part of a process where competing factors contribute to how an experience may become to be regarded as pleasurable.
