Employee Health Promotion

Building a Corporation Exercise Team From Nine-To-Five

People spend much time at work, and work environments are full of stress. Downsizing, mergers, increasing production requirements and extended hours take their toll on employee health. It can be gauged in growing absenteeism and increasing health costs. It is time to reverse the trend. Building a business exercise group could be the perfect solution. Driving each other to start a exercise program will reap big outcomes for the employees and the business.

Working Overtime

It is simple to find excuses to skip exercising. One of them is always ‘not enough time’. But 2 walks for 15 minutes each has the same health benefit as 1 walk for 30 minutes. This fact makes building business exercise group programs simple. Most organizations hire a fitness trainer. The fitness trainer can develop a plan the business can manage itself or let the fitness trainer start and monitor. Either way, there are lots of ways for employees to exercise during the day.

• Take walks outside during breaks or lunch
• Attend sponsored exercise classes at an in-house fitness center or a local fitness center before or after work
• Take the stairs rather than taking the elevators, measuring the number of stairs each week
• Do stretching exercises every hour to remain refreshed and alert

But it works even better when teamwork is added to the mix. A business is as great as its employees. Every business operates on the concept of great teamwork to fulfill its mission and provide great customer service. What better way to begin that process than by building a business exercise group? The rapport that is created among employees exercising together will carry over into the worksite itself. It is a well-known fact that group movement promote cooperation and exercise provides the perfect common activity. All humans need to exercise to maintain fitness. With a business physical activity program, the business can convey its belief in team spirit, cooperative goals/objectives and strategy development. A local personal trainer can be hired to come worksite or the business can hire a internet-based trainer. Either way, tracing the progress of each employee’s fitness level as they participate in the exercise group projects will encourage participation.

Moonlighting

There are a myriad of types of fitness programs that can be available to benefit a worksite.

• A mixture of aerobics exercises followed by strength movements
• Circuit training at the gym
• Tai Chi Ch’uan for relaxation and stress control
• Step classes
• Body sculpting
• A series of progressive exercise classes offering steady fitness change
• Specialty classes for people over 55 or for pregnant women

On this page you can locate a personal trainer who can show how building a business exercise group programs works. A business will discover that once employees begin to feel healthy, the physical activity program will carry over into their individual life. Now that is healthy moonlighting!