Fit For Life Solutions
Corporate Fitness and Wellness Program
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Without a wellness program, employers can expect an increase of 28% in sick absenteeism, 26% in the use of healthcare benefits, and 30% in worker’s comp claims. For every dollar spent on health promotion, the return on investment is between $2-$8 in both direct costs and indirect savings. Healthcare claims costs for employees who don’t exercise are $350 a year more than those who exercise 1-2 a week. |
ATTENTION: If you’ve thought about adding a fitness and wellness program to boost the health of your employees and your bottom line, look no further.
An unhealthy lifestyle leads to a feeling of low energy and low productivity. This can’t be good for increasing your companies performance and bottom line. Everyone on your team, from administrators to executives and from sales to engineering. All these people and more must operate at a high level physically, mentally and emotionally for your company to thrive.
You may be surprised to know that 60 – 70% of the US population do NOT exercise at all! It’s no wonder that we’re plagued with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, back pain and low energy.
IMPORTANT: If your company is looking for a fitness and wellness solution, make sure you read this entire page!!
A study released this year by the American Institute for Preventive Medicine found 62 percent of all companies — ranging from small to medium and large — offer some type of wellness program.*
Although coffee can help give us a boost, it also leaves us with a “crash and burn” around 2 or 3pm that puts productivity to a halt. Unless we’re exercising and eating right, our energy level is almost sure to drop to an extreme low at least once per day, eating away at minimum a full hour of productive time that you’re company is paying for!
But it’s not your employee’s fault, and it’s not your’s either!
Eating out, fast foods, illness, lack of exercise, poor hydration, coffee crashes. These are not just symptoms of our American culture. These are all symptoms of our American work culture.
…BUT there is a new American work culture emerging!
The companies that are heading up this culture such as Google, Citibank, Dupont, Johnson and Johnson, Coors, Del Monte Foods and many others have seen that happy and healthy employees not only lead to higher morale and productivity in the workplace, but the costs from employee absenteeism have saved these companies millions of dollars.
At Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceuticals and consumer health products company, a four-year wellness program involving more than 18,000 workers saved the corporation $8.5 million a year in reduced health-care costs, according to the American Institute for Preventive Medicine study. Citibank saw a return of $4.56 for every dollar spent on a health management program, the study said.*
Our team at Fit For Life Solutions brings fitness, health and wellness directly on site to your company. We are experts in fitness, exercise compliance, fat loss, and fitness lifestyle design. We know firsthand how to meet the challenge of keeping your employees happy and healthy.
From the employee perspective, many work more than 5 hours per day in a seated position under florescent lights. Many skip breakfast, eat a large lunch, then go home and eat a large dinner, watch TV with their family, then go to bed to repeat it the next day.
Exercise is often last on the list. It’s our belief at Fit For Life Solutions that when you put exercise first, everything else will follow! With regular exercise, your employees will enjoy:
- Higher energy levels
- Better sleep
- Weight loss
- Reduce the risk of disease and illness
- Healthier appetite (the body will actually crave healthier foods!)
- Lower blood pressure
- More productive time in the day
- Reduction in sick days
- Increased mental clarity and focus
- Lower cholesterol and blood pressure without medication!
You and I both know that simply giving employees access to a gym or a 10,000 steps per day pedometer program doesn’t work in the long run. They may be excited about it at first, but when it comes to long term compliance nothing can replace an on-site program led by a fitness professional…or in our case, a whole team of committed fitness professionals!
We at Fit For Life Solutions are the #1 fitness boot camp in the Bay Area. We’ve served hundreds through our 2 locations in Foster City (Fit For Life Bootcamp) and Mountain View (Fit Body Boot Camp), and we’ve helped the community lose well over 1,000 lbs.
We are well known as THE results fitness program, and our signature system, the Fit For Life “Before and After” Fitness Formula, is what sets us apart from the rest.
Consider the costs of employee health insurance and it’s clear why more companies are urging their workers to get in shape. Health-care costs nationwide will hit $2.2 trillion, or 16 percent of the gross domestic product this year, with companies paying an average $9,312 per employee for health insurance, according to a Towers Perrin survey.*
Simply put, you want your employees happy, healthy and productive. You also want to save costs and spend your health care dollars efficiently and effectively.
Our Fit For Life Solutions team is ready to go to work for you and your company. Give us a call or send an e-mail. We will answer your questions and at your request, send someone over right away to answer any questions you may have in person and give you all the details to help get your company started with the Fit For Life Solutions Corporate Fitness and Wellness Program!
CALL Beau at 650-238-7504 or send an e-mail to: Beau@fitforlifesolutions.com
*View full article by Joyce Gannon at http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08132/880660-28.stm