L’activité de travail du professeur de fitness au prisme de la solidarité technique

Abstract

Examining working life in small fitness businesses, this article reveals a work activity that goes beyond standard planning. Work activity in fitness clubs exposes work situations that allow us to better understand organizational work concepts and technical solidarity. Behavior at work is inextricably individual and collective. It is forged within a chain of interdependencies located here and there that bring owners, fitness instructors and user-consumers together. These interdependencies redefine organizational work and self-fulfillment at work. Defined by physical proximity, the fitness instructor relies on technical, physical, cognitive and relational resources. These allow him/her to master a sum of uncertainties that include the sometimes hidden intentions of clients. In so doing, the professional activity reveals an individual emancipation, freed from behavioral standards. It is subject to collective plural forms of work "in the making" that go beyond the physical and technical abilities of the individual, resulting in the appropriation of roles suited to the environment and forged in accordance with the reputation acquired.

Keywords

• fitness
• organizational work
• activity
• work
• technical solidarity