This article raises the ecological substance and relational co-constitution of bodies as a generative question for sociologists of sport and physical culture. It proceeds from our observation that recent research on the materiality of athletic bodies, and on the environmental issues in which sport is implicated, tends to run on parallel tracks. By exploring how biological, environmental, and social natures cohere in the making and unmaking of healthy bodies, our aim is to connect and extend these vibrant areas of research. We do so by developing the concept of “ecological embodiment,” a descriptor for a fluid state of becoming and a sensibility for thinking about hierarchical socioecological entanglements. To illustrate this concept, we draw on a study of whey protein powder, a key ingredient in contemporary fitness cultures.

本文提出了身体的生态实质和关系的共同构成，这是体育和体育文化社会学家的一个生成问题。从我们的观察中可以得出，有关运动身体的重要性以及与运动有关的环境问题的最新研究倾向于在平行的轨道上进行。通过探索生物，环境和社会自然如何在健康的身体的制造和分解中相结合，我们的目标是连接和扩展这些充满活力的研究领域。我们通过发展“生态体现”的概念来做到这一点，“生态体现”是流动的状态的描述者，是对分层社会生态纠缠的思考的一种敏感性。为了说明这一概念，我们借鉴了乳清蛋白粉的研究，乳清蛋白粉是当代健身文化中的关键成分。