El sedentarismo constituye una de las principales preocupaciones sociales de nuestro tiempo. La mayoría de las personas pasamos gran parte del día sentados, nuestros desplazamientos son más frecuentes con medios mecánicos que a pie y las nuevas generaciones hacen poco más deporte que sus coetáneos de hace una década. En otras palabras, los hábitos sedentarios se han normalizado en nuestra sociedad, especialmente entre la población más joven. Para escudriñar en esta realidad, merece preguntarse qué es el sedentarismo según la juventud española.
Sedentarism has become one of the major concerns of our times. Most
people spend a large part of their daytime sitting down, most movement taking
place by mechanical means, rather than by walking. Younger generations do little
more sport today than their counterparts did a decade ago. In other words, sedentary
habits have become common in our society, especially among the young.
To understand this phenomenon we should ask what is sedentarism for young
people. Are they aware that their lives are sedentary?What cultural mechanisms
have contributed to this? What are the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle for
our health and well-being? These are the questions we have asked in this study.
We have been working on this topic for some time; in this paper we present the
results from a qualitative study among the Spanish young adults. These results
provide important clues to better understand how sedentarism has become normalized
among the new generations of citizens.
