Corporate Fit Challenge

Corporate Fit Challenge is a nationally recognized wellness program. The program can help people of all fitness levels from self professed “couch potatoes” to fitness enthusiasts.

Here are just some of the results from recent participants:

• Teachers: 22 participants averaged 9.6 pounds lost
• Librarians: 16 participants averages 11 pounds lost
• Manufacturers: 17 participants averages 9.5 pounds lost
• Bank Employees: 17 participants averaged 9.5 pounds lost
• Journalists: 17 participants averages 11 pounds lost
• Fire Fighters: 14 participants averages 13 pounds lost

We are excited to share this program with you and hope that with your help, we can organize a Corporate Fit Challenge with a few simple steps in your work place. The cost of this program is very affordable and the effects are priceless.

Corporate Fitness Programs Make a Bottom Line Impact!

The bottom line is when people look and feel their best, they perform better. Productivity goes up, employee morale increases and the atmosphere within your business takes a turn for the better.

Your employees will appreciate that you’re interested in their overall health and not just profits – but in reality, once their performance increases as a direct result of their enhanced vitality, your profits will increase too!

Reduced Absenteeism
DuPont reduced absenteeism by 47.5% over six years for the corporate fitness program participants. Health Behavior

Reduced Health Care Costs
Steelcase showed that medical claims costs were 55% lower for corporate fitness program participants than non-participants over a six year period – an average of $478.61 for participants vs. $868.88 for non-participants. The American Journal of Health Promotion

Reduced Turnover
The Canadian Life Assurance Company found turnover among fitness program participants was 32.4% lower over a seven year period compared with non-participants. Canadian Journal of Public Health

Positive Return on Investment
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Indiana found that its corporate fitness program had a 250% return on investment; $2.51 for every $1 invested over a five year period. American Journal of Health Promotion

Sick Leave Use Reduced
The Travelers Corporation reported that its health promotion yielded a 19% reduction in sick leave use over the four year study with a $3.40 return for every dollar spent, yielding a total corporate savings of $146 million in benefits costs. Wellness Councils of America

Lower Health Care Expenditures
Superior Coffee and Foods, a subsidiary of Sara Lee reports that the wellness program for its 1200 employees showed 22% fewer hospital admissions, 29% shorter hospital stays, and 42% lower expenses per admission when compared to other divisions. Long term disability costs were down by 40%. Wellness Councils of America

The volume of data to support the benefits with respect to organizations that have initiated corporate fitness programs is overwhelming. When viewed from a cost benefit standpoint, an effective fitness program will always handsomely reward the organization as well as the individual participants.