Reid Moldenhauer ENGL 1102-003 Assignment One Saturday, September 21, 2013 7:00 pm–8:00 pm Weight Room Description of Location: The Student Activity Center (SAC) is a large building with multiple possibilities to exercise and workout. The weight room is located in the basement of the building next to all the l ocker rooms. The weight room is a large room that is full of exercise machines from treadmills to dumbbell sets. Right inside the door way is a desk; this is where an employee of (SAC) checks the student with their student ID card. This allows them to get into the weight room for free. After the desk, directly to the left are 4 separate sets of dumbbells and around 8 portable benches. To the right there are three bench set ups, 6 different cable machines four squat racks, and a leg press machine. Also to the left of the desk there is a water fountain with a bottle filler. Also located on that side of the room is the water foun tain which is back behind the wall that is separating the desk and the squat racks. Once you get past the dumbbells and all the different racks and benches, there are 8 different machines that can only perform a certain workout. These machines are leg curls, leg extension, leg press, bench press, military press, calve raises, and two abs machines. Right behind this row of machines are 12 tread mills, 6 bikes, and 10 elliptical climbers behind the row of running machines. =pictures were taken here Bikes and Elli tica l Climbers Tread mills Ell i tica l Cli mbers Machines Support Beam Extra Room D u m b b M a c hi n e Bench Racks S uat Machines Squat racks Wire Machines EntranceDumb Bell Section
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Bench and Squat racks section Treadmill/Machine sections
Dumbbell Section
Figured Worlds: A figured world can be seen anywhere a person looks. A figured world is a set
world that runs prematurely on specific rules and applications. A figured world, we can say has
its own laws and ways of behaving, acting, and a specific ways of doing something. But inside a
figured world a person has multiple options on how to act within the figured world.
Rules and Conventions: In the figured world of the weight room in the Student Activity Center,
there are very few strict rules that are meant to be followed. The most important rule states
that no cut-offs are to be worn in the weight room at any time. The student must have sleeveson their shirt in order to get in. The second most important rule is to not leave weights on the
floor of the room, the weights must be re-racked in there designated spot. With the absence of
a lot of rules comes a lot of acceptable ways to act. In the weight room each community,
certain discourse communities that are present, share a specific code that everyone follows
while working out. This code is a sense that most people follow, and it is that when someone is
in the act of doing a work out, you let that person finish their rep before asking them
something. Another code that is sensed in the weight room is that before using a machine or
bench set, make sure that no one else is using it and that you are able to take over that
particular machine. The appropriate ways to act in the weight room are easy to follow. As long
as the person follows these codes and doesn’t get into the way of someone who is intensely
going about their workout usually there is no issues at all.
Note: These observations take place over three different observations within a week. The
actors are real and do belong to the discourse community that they belong in, but their names
are not correct. Even if a single person has been observed multiple times in different
observations, doesn’t mean that this person truly belongs in a particular community. These
actors and communities are what were observed during these observations only.
Actors: Actors are what make the figured world what it is. Without actors there would be no
rules and conventions and therefore there wouldn’t be a specific figured world. Actors are the
characters that interact in the figured world and therefore interact within discoursecommunities found in the figured world under the rules and conventions of that figured world.
(Note: All the actors are given a name. These aren’t there real names.) Ray: Was only seen in the weight room for one of the observed days. He doesn’t feel
very confident in his abilities and he tends to try and stay out of people’s way.
Samantha: Was also only observed once in the weight room, but I guarantee she goes
a lot. Samantha doesn’t prefer a plain running workout like most of the girls that go to
the gym. She follows a very tough rigorous workout regimen that looked equally as
tough as a lot of the guy’s regiment.
William: William is seen in two observances. In the first observance he’s not very
confident at all in his ability and really has no prior knowledge of lifting at all. In the
second observance, we see William take the initiative to gain more knowledge about
lifting and better himself despite his lack of confidence.
John: We seen John for a very small part of Observance one. He portrays himself as a
big tough guy showing off his arms, when all of the sudden the gym worker put him in
his place and told him to leave and get sleeves on.
Craig and Scott: Craig and Scott are only seen in observance one, but there character
type is the main kind of people that go to the weight room. They have a set goal in
mind before they go and they execute the goal to their finest.
Cal: Cal is a tall skinny dude that just seemed lost in the weight room setting. He
doesn’t seem to have much prior knowledge about lifting and again isn’t confident in
his abilities.
Charles: Is a very confident person when it comes to the weight room. He doesn’t
know it but he carries himself as a very big bad tough guy, but really he isn’t all that he