MAN v FAT, the UK’s main male weight reduction programme, is to companion with Northampton Saints to help males within the city to take steps to enhance their well being and wellbeing.
Having supported tens of hundreds of males to lose almost 1,000,000lbs of weight since they acquired began in 2014, MAN v FAT picked up the oval ball in 2024 to additional unfold the phrase on male wellbeing.
And Saints are set to change into the primary Rugby Union facet to hitch up with MAN v FAT Rugby, with the membership attributable to get underway in March on the Northampton Saints Excessive Efficiency Centre.
Karl White, MAN v FAT’s Rugby Lead stated: “We will’t wait to convey MAN v FAT Rugby to Northampton. Having a membership the dimensions of Northampton Saints as our first Rugby Union companion is sensible!
“The city is well-known for its rugby each from a primary workforce standpoint in addition to the superb work Northampton Saints ship locally, so we look ahead to getting began in March 2026.
“An added further to the partnership is the truth that the membership will probably be working from their Excessive Efficiency Centre, I’m certain it will entice a number of extra guys to mud off their boots and become involved.”
Northampton Saints have a large reaching group programme, supporting a variety of impactful initiatives and the workforce there are happy to be including MAN v FAT Rugby to their combine.
Jamie Higgins, Inclusion Officer, stated: “Northampton Saints Neighborhood are proud to companion with MAN v FAT Rugby to ship the MAN v FAT weight reduction and wellbeing programme.
“This initiative sits firmly inside our Inclusion Programmes, reinforcing our dedication to bettering well being and wellbeing. By combining the ability of rugby with structured weight administration and psychological well being help, the programme supplies an inclusive, supportive surroundings that helps males make optimistic, sustainable life-style modifications each on and off the pitch.”
Having launched quite a few golf equipment on the tail finish of 2024, the MAN v FAT workforce are already seeing successes on the scales of their Rugby golf equipment too – and Karl is assured that comparable achievements will probably be made in Northampton: “MAN v FAT Soccer succeeds off the again of a robust group really feel and we all know that group is a purpose why rugby golf equipment up and down the nation prosper.
“Now we have already seen some sturdy friendships in-built our preliminary Rugby golf equipment and are trying ahead to seeing this unfold in Northampton too.”
As with MAN v FAT Soccer, rugby members would should be aged 18+ with a BMI of 27.5 or larger to get began. Extra particulars concerning the programme and the way to register could be discovered at www.manvfatrugby.com.
To search out out extra particulars concerning the Northampton membership, which launches on March twelfth, go to: https://manvfatrugby.com/membership/northampton/