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> <p>Introduction </p><p>LUKE JONES, ZOË AVNER, AND JIM DENISON</p><p>1 Professional Sport: An Ill-Fitting Suit? </p><p>KITRINA DOUGLAS</p><p>2 Aesthetics of Existence Post-elite Sport Performances: Negotiating the Critic and the Complicit Elite Athlete Self </p><p>GÖRAN GERDIN</p><p>3 Learning to Look <i>Through </i>the Body Rather than <i>At </i>It: An Athlete’s Attempt to Re-configure Their Relationship with Exercise </p><p>JOHN TONER</p><p>4 A Hard Habit to Break: Epiphanies Stop Coming – If I Ain’t Running! </p><p>DAVID HOWE</p><p>5 From Disciplined Body to Foucauldian Ethical Thinker: A Transformational Tale of a High-Performance Baseball Player </p><p>CLAYTON KUKLICK</p><p>6 The Continuation of ‘Slim to Win’: The Sustained Impact of a Dominant Cultural Ideology on One Athlete Post-sport </p><p>JENNY MCMAHON AND KERRY R. MCGANNON</p><p>7 Finally … for the Joy of It All: A Corporeal Reconciliation Narrative of a Former College Distance Runner </p><p>TED BUTRYN</p><p>8 Moving in Different Circles </p><p>DARRYN STAMP</p><p>9 Moving Afresh: A Narrative and Foucauldian Analysis of Transitioning to New Movement Practices </p><p>JOSEPH MILLS</p><p>Conclusion </p><p>ZOË AVNER, LUKE JONES, AND JIM DENISON</p>