'Motivate': the effect of a Football in the Community delivered weight loss programme on over 35-year old men and women's cardiovascular risk factors

Rutherford, Z, Gough, B, Seymour-Smith, S ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1213-9160, Matthews, CR ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8561-2863, Wilcox, J, Parnell, D and Pringle, A, 2014. 'Motivate': the effect of a Football in the Community delivered weight loss programme on over 35-year old men and women's cardiovascular risk factors. Soccer & Society, 15 (6), pp. 951-969. ISSN 1466-0970

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine whether an innovative, inclusive and integrated 12-week exercise, behaviour change and nutrition advice-based weight management programme could significantly improve the cardiovascular risk factors of overweight and obese men and women over the age of 35. One hundred and ninety-four men and 98 women (mean age=52.28±9.74 and 51.19±9.04) attending a community-based intervention delivered by Notts County Football in the Community over one year, took part in the study. Height (m), weight (kg), fitness (meters covered during a 6 min walk) and waist circumference (cm) were measured at weeks 1 and 12 as part of the intervention. Changes in body weight, waist circumference and fitness for men and women were measured by a 2-way repeated measures ANOVA, with significance set to p< 0.05.Weight, waist cir- cumference and fitness significantly improved over time in both men (4.96 kg, 6.29 cm, 70.22 m; p<0.05) and women (4.26 kg, 5.90 cm, 35.29 m; p<0.05). The results demonstrated that the FITC lead weight loss intervention was successful in significantly improving cardiovascular risk factors in both men and women. In particular, the weight loss reductions achieved were comparable to those seen in similar, more costly men-only programmes. This is the first study to demonstrate the efficacy of such an intervention in an inclusive, mixed gender programme and more specifically, in women.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Soccer & Society
Creators:	Rutherford, Z., Gough, B., Seymour-Smith, S., Matthews, C.R., Wilcox, J., Parnell, D. and Pringle, A.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Date:	2014
Volume:	15
Number:	6
ISSN:	1466-0970
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/14660970.2014.920628 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	28 Sep 2017 12:48
Last Modified:	23 Jun 2021 10:42
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/31736

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