Football Fans in Training: a project of the German Cancer Aid (Deutsche Krebshilfe)
More exercise, more active lifestyle, healthier diet and sustained weight loss: “Fussballfans im Training” is a healthy living and weight loss program that was successfully developed to appeal to overweight male soccer fans. Participants get a behind the scenes look at their favorite club, and will be trained by selected club coaches. The courses take place where the fan’s heart beats: on the sports facilities of their favorite club!
The participants attend 12 weekly sessions to learn useful tricks to help them to improve their eating behavior and level of physical activity. Each session a 90 minutes is split up in a theoretical and practical part. Everyone is allowed to participate at their own pace with the aim of achieving small but feasible progress. After all, a balanced diet, fewer kilos and more fitness have a lot of positive effects. In addition to a better life-feeling and more energy, the risk of cancer is also reduced, e.g. cancer of the colon.
Fit again together
Since the second half of the 2016/2017 season, the project has already been implemented in 25 clubs of the German Bundesliga, 2nd Bundesliga and 3rd Liga by the German Cancer Aid in cooperation with the Institute for Therapy and Health Research and mm sports.
The mm sports team supports as a link in the cooperation and communication with the participating Bundesliga clubs, in the general project coordination as well as in the preparation of project documents. mm sports also organises the FFIT tournaments for German Cancer Aid.
The goal is to win over as many more clubs as possible for FFIT in Germany and to have numerous fans benefit from this unique prevention programme.
All participating clubs and more detailed information can be found here: fussballfansimtraining.de
Sport1 reported on the project in several episodes in a media cooperation: external link to sport1.de
Impressions of the FFIT tournament that took place in Mainz in November 2018:
Year: since 2016