TY - JOUR

T1 - Recreational football for disease prevention and treatment in untrained men: a narrative review examining cardiovascular health, lipid profile, body composition, muscle strength and functional capacity

AU - Bangsbo, Jens

AU - Hansen, Peter Riis

AU - Dvorak, Jiri

AU - Krustrup, Peter

N1 - CURIS 2015 NEXS 130

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Over the past 10 years, researchers have studied the effects of recreational football training as a healthpromoting activity for participants across the lifespan.This has important public health implications as over 400 million people play football annually. Results from the first randomised controlled trial, published in the BJSM in January 2009, showed that football increased maximal oxygen uptake and muscle and bone mass, and lowered fat percentage and blood pressure, in untrained men, and since then more than 70 articles about football for health have been published, including publications in two supplements of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports in 2010 and 2014, prior to the FIFA World Cup tournaments in South Africa and Brazil. While studies of football training effects have also been performed in women and children, this article reviews the current evidence linking recreational football training with favourable effects in the prevention and treatment of disease in adult men.

AB - Over the past 10 years, researchers have studied the effects of recreational football training as a healthpromoting activity for participants across the lifespan.This has important public health implications as over 400 million people play football annually. Results from the first randomised controlled trial, published in the BJSM in January 2009, showed that football increased maximal oxygen uptake and muscle and bone mass, and lowered fat percentage and blood pressure, in untrained men, and since then more than 70 articles about football for health have been published, including publications in two supplements of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports in 2010 and 2014, prior to the FIFA World Cup tournaments in South Africa and Brazil. While studies of football training effects have also been performed in women and children, this article reviews the current evidence linking recreational football training with favourable effects in the prevention and treatment of disease in adult men.

U2 - 10.1136/bjsports-2015-094781

DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2015-094781

M3 - Review

C2 - 25878072

VL - 49

SP - 568

EP - 576

JO - British Journal of Sports Medicine

JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine

SN - 0306-3674

IS - 9

ER -