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- A Personal Trainer Changed my Life!
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Corporate Fitness Boosts your Bottom Line!
Corporate Fitness - Why it's Prudent to Protect your Assets
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, businesses serious about success are recognising the benefits in incentivising staff to lead healthy and active lifestyles. This is no great surprise, particularly as more employers acknowledge that their most important asset is their staff.
Who wouldn't want to be part of a workplace that takes a proactive approach to enriching the lifestyles of their employees? On the flipside, it’s only natural that as an employer you want your staff to enjoy their work environment, so that they bring the best of themselves to their jobs everyday.
Here are five very good reasons why your business should take an active role in your employees’ lifestyle choices:
1. Fit Employees = Set and Achieve Goals
Extraordinary fitness often demands that an individual sets and reaches fitness related goals. An employee with the proven ability to continually challenge themselves by setting and then meeting aggressive goals is a valuable asset to any organisation.
2. Fit Employees = Confident Employees
A fit and healthy employee tends to have a higher level of self-confidence and self-esteem, which empowers them to challenge themselves and aspire to greater levels of achievement in the workplace.
3. Fit Employees = Energetic Employees
Regular exercise leads to increased and sustained energy throughout the day. This allows employees to focus their best efforts on their task at hand. Fit employees tend to have a body-mind balance that leads to a more positive attitude in the workplace.
4. Fit Employees = Reduced Sick Days
A person who is physically fit is more likely to have a strong immune system which makes them more resistant to illness than their unfit counterparts.
5. Fit Employees = Less Stressed Employees
Regular exercise releases the physical and emotional tensions that life brings our way, so a fit employee tends to have lower overall stress levels.
Corporate health and fitness incentives that encourage healthy lifestyle choices will benefit any business with a more productive, positive and creative workforce. Further, it has been shown that employee turnover is significantly lower in businesses where corporate health and fitness incentive programmes are implemented.
To find out how we can help your business boost it's bottom line, contact us today. info@PulsePT.co.nz
By Hamish Abbie BPhEd, BComm, CHEK L1, XLR8 Coach, REPs - 03/03/2007