“Our research shows that football is broad-spectrum medicine, a polypill against lifestyle diseases. The reason for that is that football is an effective and intense hybrid training type, combining strength training, endurance training and HIIT training, with broad-spectrum health effects on heart function, blood pressure, fat mass, cholesterol, muscle strength, postural balance, bone mineralization.”
“Football is best practice exercise, but more than that: Football is a fun, social and popular sporting activity, with great potential for creating adherence to an active lifestyle and with great potential for global health promotion”, Peter Krustrup.
The concept is simple and comprises training in the form of warm-up, ball exercises and small sided games, no matches, and it is based on the knowledge that football in itself leads to fitness. This type of football training combines the three training forms stamina, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and strength and takes the best of two worlds by adapting the most popular ball game in Denmark, football, to the target group by introducing some of the flexibility existing in the world of fitness. Football Fitness does not involve participation in regular tournaments, which means that no teams are selected for matches. So, you can participate in Football Fitness as often or infrequently as you like or are able to fit in. However, we recommend training for at least 60 minutes twice a week all year round