Towards Sufficiency in Sports
A Booklet
01.10.2023
By Carmen Mayer
Supervisor: Dr. Gesa Lüdecke
Many Germans are working 8 hours a day sitting in a chair at a desk. In order to stay healthy, they need to physically exercise regularly. The most common sports disciplines in Germany are cycling, swimming, fitness, jogging, and hiking.
While conducting sport has strong advantages for the human body, how we are conducting sport comes at the expense of enormous resources that are extracted from our environment. Thereby, not only the sport equipment itself requires resources such as a treadmill for instance, but also the environment the sport is conducted, for instance the heated gym.
A solution to this problem of how to do sport with less resources and waste forms by applying the concept of sufficiency. Sufficiency, thereby, tries to limit the total resource consumption while ensuring well-being. In this booklet, I bring sufficiency and sport together by proposing two options on its combination. To visualise it, I combine pictures of sufficient and not so sufficient sports disciplines. With this piece, I want to inspire people to reflect on their need of sport equipment and environment when conducting physical exercises.
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