Just An Overview

Drugs, steroids, alcohol, marriage, divorce, death, illness, and image. Sounds pretty familiar right? Sounds like the life of the average breathing American. Now imagine putting a high risk career that can be terminated at any time with the rest of those stresses? This is the case of most collegiate and professional athletes. One of the hardest complications of being a successful athlete is dealing with the pressures of life outside of the gifted profession. Many outside of the athletic realm often claim that the actions performed by athletes are unacceptable and sometimes intolerable. But as athletes go through their different trials and tribulations, the majority of people for help are the negatively based media that attempts to shred an athlete’s career. In an effort to clear the stereotypes of athletes, people must understand the conditions of performance pressure, gender differences, and thorough background knowledge. By the time this blog ends, I hope that various diverse audiences will be able to further examine the actions performed by athletes and understand more clearly.

As I said the daily life of an athlete may be one of the worse to experiences to deal with. As most athletes can agree, one of the hardest to cope with is relationships. When young and single throughout the college years, it can be very difficult to stay faithful and focused. With the uprising fame and social burst, it is easy to lose focus. As the next level approaches, further temptations appear and pressure can be come from all angles. Marriages and commitment are pressure from both athletics and life. In addition, one must deal with the personal issues that never get exposed to the public.

Along with the external and physical abuse is the factor of the athletes own mental battle. The ability to facilitate family, work time, traveling, and other commitments properly is a job in own self. As most viewers are aware, many athletes are signed to various contracts that oblige them to exploit themselves in a manor that may not even truthfully represent them at all. Once an athlete is caught acting outside of the normal perception of the media, the athletes reputation can be jeopardized by something that incorrect. These issues will also be down into racial categories, gender, and reputation.

Lastly, gender is also and significant issue that desperately need to be addressed. With the evolution of the change of women’s role in society, it is also linked to sports. Women are now playing more sports that were once male dominated and becoming successful. With the anxiety of performing to prove their position in the sport, women also deal with pregnancy, personal attributes, and just being a woman overall. Throughout this blog, my goal is for audiences to be able to carefully comprehend the adjustments that must be made by both male and female athletes.