The Time of Exercise and the Ethics of Acceleration: A temporal-philosophical reconstruction of exercise addiction discourse
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/rg2zhd62Keywords:
Exercise addiction, accelerated society, time ethics, philosophy of pause, bodily rhythm, philosophy of sportAbstract
This article reinterprets exercise addiction not simply as a psycho-behavioural disorder, but as a temporal and existential condition shaped by accelerated society. Drawing on Rosa, Sartre, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, it considers how exercise may become a way of managing time, avoiding pause and estranging the body from its own rhythm. Recovery, I argue, requires a time ethics of exercise: an ethics of pause, rhythm and finitude. In this sense, exercise is reconsidered as a phenomenological practice through which one may restore a more embodied relation to time and existence.
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