164 | Chapter 15 For example, sport offerings that provide a good way to stay or get healthy and in shape, deal with fatigue and replenish energy, and to relax, unwind or release stress. Additionally, concepts aimed at the social value of sport, enabling and promoting fellow students, colleagues, partners and parents and their children to participate together or compete against each other, therefore providing an easy and pleasant way to gain and maintain social relations. People could be empowered to participate in sport during the transition to adulthood, by providing them with sport concepts and facilities that respond to the reconfiguration of resources associated with becoming a student, professional, partner and parent, therefore taking away constraints and expands possibilities to sustain sport participation. Firstly, it is important to provide a high level of flexibility and autonomy and hence the opportunity to practise sport where, when, how often, how long and with whom suits best, as the major life events generally cause a decrease in temporal resources. “Light” individual and unorganised sport activities as well as informal group activities meet these conditions very well. A lot of these sport activities take place in public spaces and can therefore be promoted by investing in an attractive and safe sport infrastructure. Local sport providers could also make use of the public sport infrastructure or create “do-it-yourself” sport tutorials or courses (e.g., online videos or information signs), to empower people to practise sport in these public spaces and offer flexible and autonomous alternatives to their regular “heavily” organised activities. Further, they might offer various and more flexible contribution and membership options, like paying-per-session, a ten-session credit card, subscriptions for specific times (e.g., for off peak hours) or periods (e.g., a summer or winter subscription), and memberships that can be “paused” and “resumed” at any time. Secondly, as people commit to their new, more adult roles and the related responsibilities and activities are generally prioritised over sport participation, it is important to provide sport concepts that do not impede and preferably even facilitate or incorporate these roles, responsibilities and activities. From this perspective, sport activities that are tailored to be easily or intelligently combinedwith or linked to newevent-related activities and responsibilities (e.g., studying, work, childcare and quality time with significant others), can empower people to sustain sport participation during the transition to adulthood. These activities do not only fit the decrease in temporal resources (i.e., as they are very time-efficient), but also the reconfiguration of other resources during the
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