Edinburgh males at fat-fighting rugby and soccer golf equipment workforce as much as shed 1 / 4 of a tonne in 2025.
50 males assembly every week at two sports activities golf equipment in Edinburgh, with the purpose of shedding weight and enhancing their all-round wellbeing by means of rugby and soccer classes have misplaced 250kg (1 / 4 of a tonne) between them, within the final six months.
MAN v FAT runs 165 rugby and soccer golf equipment throughout the UK, nevertheless Edinburgh is one among solely 15 cities and cities within the nation the place males can take their decide of rugby or football-based programmes – or select to play each.
MAN v FAT Soccer Edinburgh has been working for numerous years, nevertheless town’s rugby membership is comparatively new, having launched in March 2025. MAN v FAT Rugby Edinburgh takes place each Tuesday night at Meggetland Sports activities Complicated. Whereas on Thursday evenings, the soccer membership meets at Powerleague on Westbank Avenue in Portobello.
22 gamers presently participate within the rugby classes, whereas 28 participate within the soccer membership – each evenings presently have areas for brand new gamers who could be taken with becoming a member of.
Each MAN v FAT Soccer and Rugby Edinburgh are particularly aimed toward males with a BMI of over 27.5, which NHS tips classify as obese or overweight. At a typical session, gamers arrive and are weighed, monitoring their weight reduction or achieve throughout every week. After weigh-ins, gamers battle it out on the pitch in small-sided video games of soccer and contact rugby.
The scores on the pitch mix with a person’s weight change all through every week to contribute to league standings inside a membership – with groups that win matches and whose gamers drop pounds, being awarded extra factors.
Marc Adams who performs on the rugby membership and has misplaced a powerful 4 stone since becoming a member of, defined: “I had been specializing in shedding weight for many of final yr however discovered myself stalling. So, once I noticed that there was a rugby model of MAN v FAT beginning up in Edinburgh, I assumed it might be a great way to push myself to maintain going – and being in a likeminded group would function good motivation.
“It’s been nice to play a little bit of rugby each week with a gaggle that’s giggle and have an identical ardour for the sport. I’ve additionally actually loved seeing the incredible progress that different members have been making in transferring in direction of their objectives understanding the work it might take myself. I will surely advocate it to others, the success that everybody has had thus far and the higher health ranges week-on-week has been superb.
“It’s clearly an enormous psychological enhance as properly once you see the work in direction of hitting objectives paying off. It’s additionally simply been good to have one thing to stay up for on a Tuesday evening for a little bit of rugby.
Euan Campbell, a member of the Edinburgh soccer membership added: ‘’MAN v FAT Soccer me as a result of I used to be aware of my weight however wasn’t a fan of the gymnasium and located it exhausting to encourage myself to train alone.
“I don’t really feel judged right here and we’re all in the identical boat with a concentrate on weight reduction. Being a part of a workforce, with a component of competitors motivates me to train and carry on prime of my weight reduction objectives. It additionally helps that shedding weight counts as objectives for the workforce!
“Having the session every week retains me constant, and our coach, Kris, has given me glorious recommendation in terms of adapting my weight loss plan. There’s additionally extra to the programme than taking part in soccer. I preserve monitor of what I’m consuming and ingesting, I even have entry to glorious on-line recommendation for bodily and psychological well being, in addition to quite a few wholesome recipes.
“Since becoming a member of eight months in the past I’ve misplaced over 15 per cent of my physique weight and am now very near a wholesome BMI. I’d advocate MAN v FAT to anybody seeking to drop pounds, in addition to the camaraderie and skilled assist alongside the way in which’’.
Kenny Noble, who misplaced 14 stone with the assistance of the MAN v FAT Soccer programme in Scotland now coaches the Edinburgh rugby membership. He stated: “I’m so happy with how supportive the blokes are to one another and the way all of them have a good time one another’s success regardless of how small. They usually get behind one another to offer encouragement and assist if there’s every week the place somebody positive aspects weight.
“I’m shocked at simply how shortly the blokes are smashing by means of their milestone percentages. So far we have now 15 out of twenty-two gamers which have achieved a lack of 5 per cent of their body weight because the membership launched in March 2025. That’s an exceptional achievement for the blokes concerned.”
The overall quantity of weight misplaced by MAN v FAT gamers within the UK presently stands at greater than 800,000 kilos. Along with soccer classes, MAN v FAT gamers obtain off-the-pitch assist together with wholesome meal recipe concepts and recommendations on normal health. Gamers additionally get free entry to a bespoke psychological well being platform by means of MAN v FAT companions, JAAQ.
Discover out extra about MAN v FAT Rugby Edinburgh, right here: https://manvfatrugby.com/membership/edinburgh/
MAN v FAT Soccer Edinburgh: https://www.manvfatfootball.org/edinburgh
