Features of the Course of Professional Crises in Sporting Activities

The article overviews professional crises in sporting activities. Studies show that a professional sports career is a longstanding sporting activity aimed at demonstrating high sporting achievements and constant sporting improvement. Sporting activities are quite complex and carried out in extreme conditions of competitive nature. The mastery of sporting activity (professionalization) occurs throughout the whole sports career. This is a time-consuming and multi-stage process. And like any professional activity, it is always accompanied by a crisis. We conducted a research of the characteristics of professional crises among professional athletes. Several stages of the course of crises were identified and described. Keywords—professional crisis; professional sports; sporting activity; adaptation; professionalization