Edinburgh males at fat-fighting rugby and soccer golf equipment group 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 goal of shedding weight and enhancing their all-round wellbeing via rugby and soccer periods 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 certainly one of 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 operating for quite a lot of years, nevertheless the 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 Advanced. Whereas on Thursday evenings, the soccer membership meets at Powerleague on Westbank Road in Portobello.
22 gamers at present participate within the rugby periods, whereas 28 participate within the soccer membership – each evenings at present have areas for brand new gamers who may be inquisitive about becoming a member of.
Each MAN v FAT Soccer and Rugby Edinburgh are particularly geared 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 12 months however discovered myself stalling. So, after I noticed that there was a rugby model of MAN v FAT beginning up in Edinburgh, I believed it will 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 a great chortle and have an analogous ardour for the sport. I’ve additionally actually loved seeing the improbable progress that different members have been making in transferring in direction of their targets understanding the work it will probably take myself. I will surely suggest 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 increase as nicely once you see the work in direction of hitting targets 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 acutely aware of my weight however wasn’t a fan of the fitness center and located it exhausting to inspire myself to train alone.
“I don’t really feel judged right here and we’re all in the identical boat with a give attention to weight reduction. Being a part of a group, with a component of competitors motivates me to train and carry on high of my weight reduction targets. It additionally helps that shedding weight counts as targets for the group!
“Having the session every week retains me constant, and our coach, Kris, has given me wonderful recommendation in terms of adapting my food plan. There’s additionally extra to the programme than taking part in soccer. I maintain monitor of what I’m consuming and ingesting, I even have entry to wonderful 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 suggest MAN v FAT to anybody trying to drop pounds, in addition to the camaraderie and knowledgeable help alongside the best way’’.
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 mentioned: “I’m so happy with how supportive the fellows are to one another and the way all of them have a good time one another’s success irrespective of how small. And so they get behind one another to offer encouragement and help if there’s every week the place somebody features weight.
“I’m shocked at simply how shortly the fellows are smashing via their milestone percentages. To this point we’ve 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 outstanding achievement for the fellows concerned.”
The full quantity of weight misplaced by MAN v FAT gamers within the UK at present stands at greater than 800,000 kilos. Along with soccer periods, MAN v FAT gamers obtain off-the-pitch help together with wholesome meal recipe concepts and tips about common health. Gamers additionally get free entry to a bespoke psychological well being platform via 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
