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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.
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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
DOI 10.1249/mss.0000000000001380
rct · n=80Cited 54×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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