Andrew Clarkson
Chartered Practitioner of Health and Physical Activity
Advanced Personal Trainer
BSc Poltics and Human Ecology
Gayle Letherby
Professor of Sociology
Researcher, Author, Creative Writer
Academic Consultant and Mentor
PROJECT DIRECTORS
Authors of The Political PT (forthcoming book)
The Ethical Exercise Lab is a platform for exploring ethics in everyday exercise practice. Our focus is the lived experience of exercise - how it is shaped by relationships, emotions, power dynamics, social pressures and external expectations.
We ask:
· What does ethical practice look like in real-life training environments?
· How do we support practitioners and clients to navigate complex, embodied experiences with care and integrity?
· How might we challenge current gaps in education, research and practice?
Through critical auto/biographical storytelling we connect the personal experience of all concerned with broader social questions and concerns and aim to build a community that expands what exercise can do, for individual wellbeing, for society and for the environment.
Current activity includes writing a forthcoming book entitled The Political PT – Personal Training in Society. Although mostly grounded in UK experience (education and training, industry and professional practice) we draw on examples and resources from Eastern, as well as Western philosophies, research, business models and practices. Similarly, whilst our concern is specifically with the Personal Trainer’s status, identity and role and the Personal Trainer/client relationship we strongly suggest that much of what we discuss and propose is relevant to anyone and everyone interested in exercise, ethics and society more generally.
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