Sport and Social Factors

Factors affecting participation in sport

Sport is a major part of many people’s lives and each person does sport for a variety of different reasons but there are also factors that prevent people from participating in sport, these factors are split into ‘social’ factors and ‘physical’ factors which will affect the person in different ways. Regular participation in sport will benefit the individual in a number of different ways but also society will benefit from each individual choosing to participate in sport. For each gender, age (children, adults and elderly) and ethnic group the levels of exercise will vary due to their needs and wants, all these subjects will be covered in this essay a long with the solutions to the issues and effects to the reasons of participating in sport.

Reasons for people to participate in sport vary dependant on the person and the level of which they play at for example lower level players may play in order to get exercise, meet people, entertainment and to try new sports, these reasons can affect the sports club as each individual may have joined the club for a different combination of these reasons therefore the club will need to accommodate these players need for example exercise may mean that the club will need to train regularly and more intense while for the players who joined entertainment the club will need to make enjoyable training sessions possibly by just doing entertaining drills and small sided match in training. Higher level player will participate in sport for different reasons such as personal improvement, to challenge their ability, make a living and passion for the sport and usually all the players at these higher level clubs are all there for the same reason (to become the best they can) therefore the club will need to train them intensely but also help the players achieve their goals in their sport. These reasons for participating in the sport will need to be accommodated by the club in order to keep the