About the event
Has your coach, teammate, or personal trainer ever encouraged your participation in unhealthy eating, exercise, or diets? Oftentimes eating disorders, compulsive exercise, disordered eating, and an obsession with maintaining a certain body image for aesthetics or performance is overlooked in athletics as just “part of being an athlete”. Therefore, such behaviors are under-researched and overlooked. This event will showcase the manifestation of various eating disorders, disordered eating, and compulsive exercise symptoms in athletes, discuss the tension between maintaining athletic performance and food restriction, and the toxic traits of varsity sport culture. This event will not discourage athletes from training, but rather showcase common problems in athletes in regards to eating disorders, disordered eating, compulsive exercise, and body image issues.
