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Sport has long taught athletes to be a rock. But that version of mental toughness can make struggling feel like failing, and keep athletes silent. Here's why flexibility is the better goal.
Athletes experience mental health difficulties as often as anyone else, but only around one in five who are struggling seek help. Here's what the research actually shows, and what closes the gap.
We've written before on the Surge blog about graduating from a level or a programme, the closure, the reconnecting with values, the rebuilding of purpose. This blog sits alongside that one but looks specifically at the harder end of the spectrum: full retirement from competitive sport, what the evidence says it actually does to mental health, and a newer framework researchers are proposing for how sport should prepare athletes for it. The Numbers Are Bigger Than Most People A
