Brittany Dupin
ENG 102
Ethnography Essay
Professor Flynn
April 10, 2013

Fitness Subculture
Fitness has became the new look around the globe, as it helps to enhance the looks of the body, mainly targeting young adults, by giving those a toned shape. In the recent years, America’s obsession of “the perfect body” has been spread to the minds of others across the nation. The culture within the United States in particular, has placed a heavy emphasis on the drive towards leading the fittest, healthiest lifestyle - mainly with women. Today, many people have joined the fitness subculture to have the life style of being fit and healthy. Unfortunately in the societal culture today, there shows to be a high rate of obesity due to the lack of exercise in a person’s lifestyle.
Recently, a researcher took a survey at a community college, located in the downtown metro area of Louisville, Kentucky. This survey was taken anonymously; giving a total number of twenty-five students being surveyed. The topic of this survey, fitness, helps to gather the questions and answers that are collected to receive information from the different age groups. With the given age groups, it was to help the researcher to break down the data based on age and gender. It is important to remember that fitness is an individual quality that varies from person to person as age and gender influences this reasoning.
The older that we age, it is very coincidental, that the body becomes less active as it was. The bodies of older men and women have a tendency to become brittle with age and the amount of exercise begins to lack due to joint pain and arthritis. These affects have some minimal causes due to the lack of exercise in individuals, but there are also other sides to the scale. With that being said, there are adults across the nation that are well into their mid eighty’s who are able to do more