TSG offers prevention project for fans

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is launching the program "Football Fans in Training" to help overweight fans take a step towards more exercise, a more active lifestyle, a healthier diet and ongoing weight loss. Under the motto "Your Home Game. Your Club. Your Health", our male XXL fans will have the opportunity to receive professional guidance as they bid to lose weight. Following the first appointment on 23 August, the program will start on 6 September, lasting 12 weeks, and will be held at 19:45 CET on Thursdays.

You can be involved if you fulfil the following criteria: you are a male between the ages of 35 and 65 with an abdominal girth of at least 100 centimetres. It is free of charge to sign up. In addition, each person participating in the project shall receive a training shirt.

Shedding the pounds

How to eat more healthily, lose weight, move more in everyday life, get back to sport and keep it all up in the long term are the core skills that you will learn together with other TSG Hoffenheim fans in 12 one-and-a-half-hour sessions. The courses will take place right at the very heart of the club: the Bundesliga and U23 training centre as well as at the facilities of the TSG Academy! Your coaches will be Paul Tolasz and Pascal Söll of the TSG Academy; they will be supported by co-coaches of our Bundesliga team and experts from the various departments at our club.

So sign yourselves up – and do so quickly, as the number of participants who can register is limited to 20.

Getting fit again together

The project "Football Fans in Training" (FFIT) has been carried out since the second half of the 2016/17 season in clubs in the 1. and 2. Bundesliga in cooperation with the Institute for Therapy and Health Research (IFT Nord) and German Cancer Aid. In 2017, some 268 XXL fans took part in the program – and enjoyed a lot of success! The average weight-loss at the culmination of the 12-week period stood at over six kilograms.

The objective is to win over as many clubs as possible for FFIT in Germany and to help many fans in the process. Because a balanced diet, fewer kilos and more fitness can prompt a whole host of positive effects: in addition to enjoying better well-being and having more energy, there is a decreased risk of falling ill with cancer too, e.g. intestinal cancer.

The "Football Fans in Training" project, which has existed in Scotland since 2010, serves as a prototype. There it is now a well-known offer nationwide that is carried out in more than 30 clubs and has now become an irreplaceable feature within the Scottish Premier League.

To register and for more information on the offers: www.ffit.de/achtzehn99

Or get in touch with the club at:

Paul Tolasz

+49 151 53079322

E-mail: paul.tolasz@achtzehn99.de