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For at least a decade, a considerable part of organized recreational sports has been directed to promoting health in a wider sense, stating goals of sports such as “feel good and perform more” or providing a “possibility for physical, mental, social or cultural development”(Idrottsrörelsens idéprogram, 2019: 7/8) .  \nHowever, app. 20% of the Swedish population rarely or never exercise  \n([idrottsstatistik.se/motion-och-fysisk-aktivitet/fysisk-aktivitet](idrottsstatistik.se/motion-och-fysisk-aktivitet/fysisk-aktivitet), 4 September 2022), imparting significance to questions about beneficial conditions for making people exercise. These questions are usually addressed with regard to personal motivations to actually exercise.  \nThe proposed study contributes to this field but focuses on exercising’s implicit conditions by investigating the subjective meaning of pain for active recreational athletes who exercise atthe gym as a popular place for exercising. This focus is motivated by the assumption that understandings of pain have the potential to contribute to normative expectations (cf. Pelters, 2018) about exercising as only leading to gain when being painful. These expectations may guide behavior by affecting individual decisions for or against exercise as they may shape ideas about the phenomenon people make motivated decisions about, i.e. exercise.  \nSpecific goals and purpose of the project (2500)  \nAt gyms as present-day fitness temples (Pelters & Wijma, 2016) and valid examples of recreational sports, pain might potentially be regarded as an ordeal or an appeal, depending on its perception as a signifier of doing right (in terms of pushing limits, based on the mantra ‘no pain, no gain’) or wrong (in terms of overstraining) .  \nThe study aims at understanding the explicit and implicit meaning of ‘pain’ for active gymusers as examples of recreational athletes, in order to understand what ‘pain’ and its consequences represent in the gym context, how ‘pain’ is related to understanding exercise and how it may work as a constructing element of ‘the true, fit exerciser’ as an identity construction.  \nTherefore, the following research questions will be focused:  \n1. What kinds of pain do recreational athletes perceive?  \n2. What functions do gym-users ascribe to pain, with regard to exercise and their selfunderstanding as ‘someone who exercises’?  \n3. How are different kinds of pain related to one another in gym-users accounts?  \nFrom a perspective that focuses on the self-evident normality (a so-called norm-critical perspective), investigating the meaning that pain offers as such and as a means of identity construction is presumed to elucidate a part of the normative foundation of exercise (cf. Pelters, 2018) . This foundation is assumed to be connected to people’s motivation to engage in exercising as it may frame what is assessed as ‘doing exercise right’ and being ‘a true, fit exerciser’.  \nGaining knowledge about potential normative guidelines is deemed a precondition to actively engage with them in exercise settings or other types of health education. This is the ultimate aim of norm-critical education and may in the long run mitigate normative barriers for exercising.  \nBackground and previously published results (3500)  \nPhysical activity (PA) and especially exercise is considered an unequivocal cornerstone of health for everybody, having beneficial impact on the promotion of different dimensions of health as well as the prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases (WHO, 2020). 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