The commitment and entrapment theory explains burnout in a sport commitment environment. Studies by Schmidt and Stein (1991) and Raedeke (1997) revealed that burnout occurs when athletes feel like they are entrapped in the sport and lack motivation to participate. It was argued that athletes committed to sports because they wanted to participate or they had to participate or both. Athletes who are predisposed to burnout feel they are “entrapped” by sport when they do not want to participate but believe they must continue playing the sport. They stay involved even though they prefer not to, for a variety of reasons, for example, their self-identity is tied to athletic participation and they would feel personally lost outside of sport or because they lack substitutes that are just as enjoyable as sport. Also, they assume they have spent too much time and energy in sport to halt participation.