Performance motivation of hobby athletes, from the flow experience to exercise addiction

Mayer, Krisztina (2024) Performance motivation of hobby athletes, from the flow experience to exercise addiction. Fototipia Kiadó, Alsózsolca. ISBN 9786158136457

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Abstract

In the case of elite athletes, it is completely clear to everyone why they fight, why they live the way they do, why they get up at dawn, why they train tirelessly and persistently for years, every blessed day, for hours. There are no questions about what starts and what keeps motivation up. However, in the case of hobby athletes, this question is not so clear. In many cases, extrinsic motivation can be ruled out, because neither financial recognition, fame, nor any tangible external reward can be behind the sports motivation of amateur athletes. I am also an amateur or hobby athlete and with more than 450 performance tours and more than 140 half-marathons behind me, I have often been asked the question „why do I do it?”. I searched for the answer to this question several times during my research. He was interested in what drives amateur athletes, why they start, how they feel at the finish line, to whom and what they want to prove. T his book contains four chapters. In the first chapter, I discuss the motivation of performance hikers and present their particular world. In the second chapter, I describe the changes in the sporting habits of amateur runners caused by the first wave of the coronavirus. In the third chapter, I explain the phenomenon of virtual running, which is a specific motivating factor for amateur runners in the period without running competitions during the coronavirus. In the last chapter, I also present research related to amateur runners, but mainly from the aspect of exercise addiction. I also list the literature used separately for each chapter.

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