The Primary Care Trust and our Community Scheme recently teamed up to deliver our new initiative, 'Royals Results'.

The programme, which finished earlier this month, formed an important part of the Primary Care Trust's research into fitness/lifestyle and diet of boys and girls around the age of 14.

Royals community coaches Tristan Lewis and Ryan Williams (pictured) led the pilot of the programme with 70 children at Windsor Girls School and Windsor Boys School, and the studies allowed comparisons between the two schools as the programmes delivered were identical.

The programme involved testing the children's response and recovery rate after exercise, along with a study of the participants' diets.

It was carried out over a six week period and each week Tristan and Ryan delivered football sessions to improve technique, accompanied by a healthy eating exercise including food based games such as 'Footballer's Fridge' where the participants had to decide whether certain foods belonged in a footballer's fridge or should be left on the shelf!

Each week a different topic was covered, such as salt intake and hydration, to give the participants a real 'taste' of what a healthy diet should entail.

The results of the sessions were correlated and the tests repeated after six and then twelve weeks to monitor the changes in the bodies' responses to exercise.