Implementation of a walking football programme

1. Material: The material for the intervention is as follows: Soccer balls, cones and a 40x20 artificial grass space. Participants should wear appropriate clothing and footwear to practice soccer. They must also fill in the informed consent form in order to participate. The material for data collection is as follows: - Bioimpedance meter and thalymeter (Tanita MC-780 MA, Tanita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan). - Digital dynamometer (TKK 5101 Grip-D; Takey, Tokyo, Japan). - School chair - Measuring tape - Questionnaires: SF-12, Quality of Life (15D), and General Happiness Scale. 2. Procedures: The recruitment process mainly involves promoting the activity among all the associations and organizations of elderly people in Cáceres, such as day centers, clubs, sports associations, neighborhood associations, university for the elderly, residences, etc., together with the help of the city council and the municipal sports institute. These social and institutional groups will help to disseminate a promotional poster or a written or online questionnaire to formalize the contact and obtain the necessary data from the participants. The form will contain the name and surname, age, time availability and telephone number. The intervention will basically be to apply the adapted sport of walking soccer. A group of 14 people will play simultaneously (7 against 7). In an artificial turf space of 40x20m, the goals will be reduced to square meters and nobody will be the goalkeeper, in order to favor the motor time of all people. The distribution of the minutes of each session will be as follows: 5 min general warm-up, 5 min specific warm-up, 45 minutes main part and 5 minutes of relaxation. The contents of each part are detailed below. Each intervention session will have a warm-up divided into a general part, focused on joint mobility and global movements, e.g. flexion and extension of the hip and spine. A specific part with analytical exercises and more common in soccer, e. g. walking with the ball and changes of direction. The next part will be the classic game that can be complemented with technical-tactical exercises of soccer. It will end with relaxation and range of motion exercises to promote the return to the base state, e. g. hamstring and calf streches. 3. Who will carry out the intervention: a person with a degree in physical activity and sports science 4. The mode of execution: It will be face-to-face and in groups of between 10 and 14 people. 5. The number of times the intervention will be carried out: 24 sessions of 1 hour, twice a week for 12 weeks. 6. the place where the intervention takes place; - Sports City of Cáceres (Sports Technification Center). - Residence for the elderly. There are no plans to personalize, adjust or adapt the intervention to individuals or groups of individuals in the intervention arm. Adherence or fidelity to the intervention will be assessed by a roll call at each session and reported as a percentage, a minimum of 80% is required to participate. No strategies will be used to improve fidelity.