Research
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A gender-sensitized lifestyle intervention leveraging sports fandom (Hockey FIT) significantly improves weight loss, physical activity, and dietary habits in overweight/obese middle-aged men compared to a wait-list control.
If you are a man who loves sports, look for community-based fitness programs that use your team's identity as a hook. This study shows that combining exercise, diet advice, and social support within a sports context leads to significant, sustained weight loss in men, often better than standard medical advice.
GoodSupportsHIGH confidence
The intervention group lost, on average, 3.58 kg more than the comparator group by 12 wk (95% CI for the difference between groups, -5.26 to -1.90; P < 0.001) and maintained weight loss to 12 months.
Why this rating
Randomized Controlled Trial, but it is a pilot study with a small sample size (n=80) and short duration (12 weeks primary, 12 months secondary).
Source
Hockey Fans in Training
Robert J. Petrella et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2017
rct · n=80Cited 54×
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