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Perspectives from QTBIPOC fat and disabled trainers bodyworkers and coaches on reimagining fitness for all bodies

For readers of Belly of the Beast Care Work and The Body is Not an Apology

Fit is subjective Who our society designates as fitand who gets to be fit in our societyis predefined by the coaches gyms and systems at large that uphold and reproduce the Fitness Industrial Complex for their own structural and material gain

The Fitness Industrial Complex uplifts some bodies while denigrating others Bodies that are Black Brown queer trans poor fat and disabledbodies that dont conform that resist and disruptare excluded from being fit Through the stories and experiences of activist trainers coaches and bodyworkers of diverse identities and experiences this anthology interrogates
The ideas and beliefs weve internalized about health fitness and our own and others bodies
How to deconstruct and reenvision fitness as a practice for all bodies
The fitness industrys role in upholding and reinforcing oppression
Exclusivity unsafety and harm in mainstream fitness spaces
How to empower ourselves and our communities to push back against the FIC

Speaking directly to sick queer trans disabled and BIPOC readers Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex is part urgent inquiry part radical deconstruction and part call to action to build spaces that welcome and work for all to reclaim movement as a vital and liberatory practice and to embody a model of joy and community care outside the mainstream fitness culture