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- Football for weight loss: How often should we play football to lose weight?
- Football: How many times per week and for how long should we play football to lose weight?
- Football: Which plan should you follow and how often should you play to lose weight?
- Estimates, calculations and weight loss results from several examples of football training plans!
- Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of football programmes over 1 month at normal intensity!
- Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of high-intensity football programmes over 1 month!
Football for weight loss: How often should we play football to lose weight?
Everything you need to know about football
How often should you play football to lose weight fast and see results? Does football help you lose weight? How many times per week and for how long should you play football to lose weight and burn fat? The tool below enables you to track the effects of playing football over a month. Simply select the duration of your football session—either 30 minutes or 1 hour—and choose a frequency of 1, 2, 3, or 4 times per week to shed those extra kilos!
Result of your expenditures
Beware, exercise alone is not enough to lose weight!
Exercising helps to burn calories, shape your figure by gaining muscle mass, and increase the basal metabolic rate (calories burned at rest). Thus, exercise has a significant long-term impact on weight control and better health. However, to lose 1 kg of fat, you need to burn 7700 kcal, which represents hours of running.
So what is the right solution?
Exercise and daily activity are guarantees for controlling and maintaining weight in the long term, but as any athlete will tell you, 30% is about moving and 70% is about what's on your plate. Weight loss must therefore be a mix of expenditures (essential) and a diet that does not exceed your needs.
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Football: How many times per week and for how long should we play football to lose weight?
Find out more about playing football for weight loss!
Regular exercise combined with a healthy diet can help you slim and tone your body, but some sports are more effective than others at helping you lose weight. What about football and its calorie expenditure? How much time per week can you lose weight and achieve results by playing football? Here are some answers.
Calories burned by playing football!
Football is one of the best sports for burning calories because of its demanding nature and the constant demand for energy it requires. Combined with a healthy diet, regular practice of the sport not only helps you lose weight but also stabilises it over the long term, according to a Scottish study by the University of Glasgow. With a calorie expenditure almost 800 calories higher for one hour of practice, football is an excellent slimming ally.
What is the metabolic equivalent of football?
The metabolic equivalent of a physical activity is a statistical unit(MET Metabolic Equivalent of Task) used to express the ratio between the energy expenditure of a physical activity during exercise and the energy expenditure of an individual at rest. Moderate football, for example, is a high-intensity activity with a MET value of 8, which means that it burns 8 times more energy than at rest, in the same way as snowshoeing or handball
Football: Which plan should you follow and how often should you play to lose weight?
Estimates, calculations and weight loss results from several examples of football training plans!
Do you know how much weight you lose by playing football for 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours? How often should you train to lose weight and burn fat? The tables below will give you an idea of your weight loss as a function of weight, duration and number of training sessions per week.
Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of football programmes over 1 month at normal intensity!
Football
Moderate intensity
Weight loss results for 1 session per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.30 |
| 50 kg | 0.09 | 0.19 | 0.37 |
| 60 kg | 0.11 | 0.22 | 0.45 |
| 70 kg | 0.13 | 0.26 | 0.52 |
| 80 kg | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.60 |
| 90 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
Football
Moderate intensity
Weight loss results for 2 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.60 |
| 50 kg | 0.19 | 0.37 | 0.75 |
| 60 kg | 0.22 | 0.45 | 0.90 |
| 70 kg | 0.26 | 0.52 | 1.05 |
| 80 kg | 0.30 | 0.60 | 1.19 |
| 90 kg | 0.34 | 0.67 | 1.34 |
Football
Moderate intensity
Weight loss results for 3 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.22 | 0.45 | 0.90 |
| 50 kg | 0.28 | 0.56 | 1.12 |
| 60 kg | 0.34 | 0.67 | 1.34 |
| 70 kg | 0.39 | 0.78 | 1.57 |
| 80 kg | 0.45 | 0.90 | 1.79 |
| 90 kg | 0.50 | 1.01 | 2.02 |
Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of high-intensity football programmes over 1 month!
Football
High intensity
Weight loss results for 1 session per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.34 |
| 50 kg | 0.11 | 0.21 | 0.42 |
| 60 kg | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.50 |
| 70 kg | 0.15 | 0.29 | 0.59 |
| 80 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
| 90 kg | 0.19 | 0.38 | 0.76 |
Football
High intensity
Weight loss results for 2 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
| 50 kg | 0.21 | 0.42 | 0.84 |
| 60 kg | 0.25 | 0.50 | 1.01 |
| 70 kg | 0.29 | 0.59 | 1.18 |
| 80 kg | 0.34 | 0.67 | 1.34 |
| 90 kg | 0.38 | 0.76 | 1.51 |
Football
High intensity
Weight loss results for 3 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.25 | 0.50 | 1.01 |
| 50 kg | 0.32 | 0.63 | 1.26 |
| 60 kg | 0.38 | 0.76 | 1.51 |
| 70 kg | 0.44 | 0.88 | 1.76 |
| 80 kg | 0.50 | 1.01 | 2.02 |
| 90 kg | 0.57 | 1.13 | 2.27 |
