Edinburgh males at fat-fighting rugby and soccer golf equipment staff 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 reducing 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, nonetheless Edinburgh is one in all solely 15 cities and cities within the nation the place males can take their choose of rugby or football-based programmes – or select to play each.
MAN v FAT Soccer Edinburgh has been operating for numerous years, nonetheless 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 the moment participate within the rugby periods, whereas 28 participate within the soccer membership – each evenings at the moment have areas for brand new gamers who could be concerned about 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 chubby or overweight. At a typical session, gamers arrive and are weighed, monitoring their weight reduction or achieve throughout per 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 per week to contribute to league standings inside a membership – with groups that win matches and whose gamers drop a few 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 reducing weight for many of final 12 months however discovered myself stalling. So, once I noticed that there was a rugby model of MAN v FAT beginning up in Edinburgh, I believed it could 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 bunch that’s an excellent snicker and have an analogous ardour for the sport. I’ve additionally actually loved seeing the unbelievable progress that different members have been making in shifting in direction of their objectives figuring out the work it may possibly take myself. I will surely advocate it to others, the success that everybody has had up to now and the higher health ranges week-on-week has been superb.
“It’s clearly an enormous psychological enhance as properly while you see the work in direction of hitting objectives paying off. It’s additionally simply been good to have one thing to sit up for on a Tuesday night time 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 health club and located it onerous to inspire 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 staff, with a component of competitors motivates me to train and carry on prime of my weight reduction objectives. It additionally helps that reducing weight counts as objectives for the staff!
“Having the session every week retains me constant, and our coach, Kris, has given me glorious recommendation on the subject of adapting my food plan. There’s additionally extra to the programme than taking part in soccer. I preserve observe 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 a few pounds, in addition to the camaraderie and knowledgeable help 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 pleased 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. And so they get behind one another to offer encouragement and help if there’s per week the place somebody features weight.
“I’m stunned at simply how shortly the blokes are smashing via their milestone percentages. Up to now 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 outstanding achievement for the blokes concerned.”
The overall quantity of weight misplaced by MAN v FAT gamers within the UK at the moment 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 normal 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
