Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>