Exeter crowns footballers as the fittest on campus

Exeter University football students have been crowned as the fittest students on campus. . . at least according to a recent survey.

Football training can be a great way to lower blood pressure, according to a study released by the University of Exeter, Copenhagen and Gentofte University Hospital in Denmark.

Shockingly one third of British men suffer from high blood pressure, increasing the risks of strokes and coronary artery disease.

Published in the Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise journal, the study made recruited men take hourly training sessions just twice a week. Results showed that after just six months of training three out of four of the men studied had healthy blood pressure.

Avid footballing fresh Jack Stephens agrees that ‘playing football does provide you with a certain degree of physical and spiritual freedom which could impact only positively’. Of course, there is also ‘post-lash’ lard it burns and the stress relief of booting something that isn’t your annoying flat mate’s face.

The study produced more effective results than the currently prescribed solutions by GPs so forget ‘an apple a day’, whack on your studs and get on the football hype!