Health Benefits Resources
The benefits of a regular exercise can never be underestimated. It can help with mobility, boost your cognitive faculties, provide improved mental help and of course it can be fun - particularly when exercise is performed as part of a team activity, where you'll also benefit from the engagement of other like minded individuals.
Parkinsons, dementia, rehabilitation after surgury or cancer treatment - walking gootball will help with all these conditions and provide that extra little zing you used to get from team sports.
Exploring the benefits of walking football for people with chronic breathlessness
https://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/research/news_story.cfm?story_id=8098&this_issue_title=November%202022&this_issue=354#
This slower-paced, low-impact version of soccer is opening up the game to all ages and abilities, and is ideal for stroke survivors looking to get more active and meet new people.
https://www.stroke.org.uk/news/benefits-walking-football
Effects of a 12-week walking football intervention on cardiovascular disease risk factors in an older adult population
https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/32/Supplement_2/ckac094.016/6677684
Effects of walking football on adherence, safety, quality of life and physical fitness in patients with prostate cancer
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/oncology/articles/10.3389/fonc.2023.1129028/full
Walking Football as sustainable exercise for older adults – a pilot investigation
https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/123459/1/Walking_football_3_Reddy_et_al_complete_text.pdf
Football, fitness and friendship
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/discover/2021/july/the-many-wins-of-walking-football/
How Walking Football boosts physical and mental wellbeing
https://www.firefighterscharity.org.uk/latest/walking-football-boosts-physical-mental-health/%20
Parkinson's England Walking Football Team
https://www.liverpoolfa.com/news/2022/oct/10/parkinsons-england-walking-football-team-featured-on-parkinsonslifeeu
Walking football helps Lanarkshire mum Karen to kick young onset Parkinson's into touch
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/walking-football-helps-lanarkshire-mum-29765603
