Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport: Post-Retirement Perspectives

Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport

explores whether high-performance athletes have healthy and prosperous relationships with exercise and well-being after retirement from elite sports. This edited collection is the first of its kind to bring together sociologically informed accounts from former high-performance athletes about their retirement experiences and post-sporting careers.

The chapters combine creative narrative writing and social theory to frame the experiences of exercise and well-being after retirement from high-performance sport. Written by former high-performance athletes who are now socio-cultural sports scholars, the authors explore how retiring from elite sport impacted their relationship to exercise and physical activity, identity, and long-term mental health.

This book is key reading for graduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics and researchers interested in sports retirement experiences, sport sociology, mental health, and well-being.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032232722
• ISBN13: 9781032232720
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"