Pain has long been associated with sports participation, being analyzed variously as a physical phenomenon, as well as a socio-cultural construct in sport sociological literature. In this article, we employ a sociological-phenomenological approach to generate novel insights into the under-researched domain of ‘lived’ pain in competitive swimming. Analytic attention is paid to specific aspects of pain, including ‘discomfort’ and ‘good pain,’ and how these sensations can be positively experienced and understood by the swimmers, as well as forming an integral part of the everyday routines of competitive swimming. Here, training is seen as ‘work’ in the pursuit of athletic improvement. Discomfort and 'good pain' thus become perceived as by-products of training, providing swimmers with important embodied information on pace, energy levels, and other bodily indicators of performance.

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“你总是想要酸痛，因为那样你就会看到结果”：在竞技游泳中探索积极的痛苦

疼痛长期以来一直与体育参与有关，在体育社会学文献中，它被作为一种物理现象以及社会文化结构进行了各种分析。在本文中，我们采用社会学现象学方法对竞技游泳中“活的”疼痛这一研究不足的领域产生了新的见解。分析关注疼痛的特定方面，包括“不舒服”和“良好的疼痛”，以及游泳者如何积极体验和理解这些感觉，以及构成竞技游泳日常活动的一个组成部分。在这里，训练被视为追求运动进步的“工作”。因此，不适和“好痛”被视为训练的副产品，为游泳者提供了有关速度、能量水平、