HealthFitness has posted a new item, '5 tips for making work a friendlier
place'
Today's smart employers recognize that employee well-being extends beyond
physical health and includes social, emotional, financial and environmental
dimensions.
Effectively engaging employees from this whole-person view of health requires
creating and supporting a pervasive culture of health that fosters sustainable
healthy actions in the employee population.
At HealthFitness we refer to this as Well-doingsm for more people.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
[HealthFitness] Well-doing for more people: Putting employee health into action
HealthFitness has posted a new item, 'Well-doing for more people: Putting
employee health into action'
To paraphrase an iconic car commercial, it's not your father's corporate
wellness program. Our industry has evolved rapidly, with employers increasingly
looking at employee health from a whole-person view, recognizing its physical,
social, emotional, financial and environmental dimensions. And while these
dimensions of well-being are critical in determining overall health, a key
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employee health into action'
To paraphrase an iconic car commercial, it's not your father's corporate
wellness program. Our industry has evolved rapidly, with employers increasingly
looking at employee health from a whole-person view, recognizing its physical,
social, emotional, financial and environmental dimensions. And while these
dimensions of well-being are critical in determining overall health, a key
component is the [...]
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
[HealthFitness] 5 tactics to engage leadership in wellness
HealthFitness has posted a new item, '5 tactics to engage leadership in
wellness'
Leadership buy-in of corporate wellness programming can make a big difference in
the success of the program. In fact, sincere interest in the well-being of
employees is considered a top driver of sustainable engagement, according to the
Towers Watson 2014 Global Workforce Study.
At HealthFitness, we've learned that visible support from a company's
executives sets the [...]
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wellness'
Leadership buy-in of corporate wellness programming can make a big difference in
the success of the program. In fact, sincere interest in the well-being of
employees is considered a top driver of sustainable engagement, according to the
Towers Watson 2014 Global Workforce Study.
At HealthFitness, we've learned that visible support from a company's
executives sets the [...]
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Sunday, May 17, 2015
World Worker Fitness And Health Month
helping personnel get more healthy and assisting to curb the rising can charge of fitness care should be priorities for all employers. and might — detailed as global worker health and health Month — is the ultimate time to delivery taking a more energetic position for your employees’ fitness.
Your employees and their families will benefit, and your company’s final analysis can get healthier, too.
Take a look on the data.
The centers for sickness control and Prevention (CDC) have found that approximately seventy five % of employers’ fitness care prices come from treating continual, however preventable, conditions introduced on via obesity, excessive blood drive, high ldl cholesterol and lack of physical recreation.
based on a fresh Gallup poll, unhealthy workers are costing U.S. employers approximately $153 billion annually.
It makes sense that healthier personnel charge agencies much less cash. however what can an employer do?
Instituting a robust employee health and wellness application is a great step toward improving the standard fitness of an organization and its personnel.
contemporary findings by way of the well being Council of the usa exhibit, for each dollar spent on worker health initiatives, a firm can see a return of $three to $6 in reduced fees, more desirable productivity, reduced absenteeism and improved clinical assurance rates.
beyond the competencies to cut back costs, the CDC additionally studies that agencies committed to a way of life of wellbeing get hold of different benefits similar to lower turnover rates, the enchantment of true candidates and better job delight.
Encouraging health and health will also be whatever thing so simple as starting a walk-at-lunch membership, presenting more healthy decisions within the employee cafeteria, hosting displays by using fitness professionals and offering short and simple preventive screenings like blood force tests.
Some employers offer gym memberships and other incentives for personnel to reduce weight or hold a match weight, and to maintain their blood force, cholesterol and sugar stages below control.
something form the employee wellness program takes; the influence is healthier personnel. And healthier employees are more productive, take fewer ailing days and help in the reduction of worker accidents and insurance chance.
At Blue pass of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BCNEPA), the effects of our employee health courses were dramatic.
as an example, over the past four years, our employees have utilized costly Emergency Room (ER) services 33 percent much less often than the common local agency with BCNEPA coverage.
How do we help preserve our employees out of the ER?
We encourage them to peer a physician consistently, comprehend their cholesterol and blood pressure numbers and acquire common physical endeavor.
These are all important elements in fighting and managing continual ailments — the main cause of avoidable ER visits within the U.S., based on a 2014 survey of hospitals via the Healthcare Intelligence community.
because of BCNEPA’s wellness software incentives, our employees exceed the federal govt’s healthy individuals 2020 dreams for getting an annual physical, and for getting annual cholesterol and blood force checks.
Our employees additionally exceed the fit individuals 2020 dreams for physical undertaking and for now not using tobacco.
Many insurers offer aid for office wellbeing actions to their purchasers.
At BCNEPA, our Blue health options application is purchasable to all lined employers to help personnel and their lined dependents control chronic situations, enrich health or with no trouble delivery down the direction of a more fit culture.
This global worker health and fitness Month — we motivate all employers to make a commitment to their employees’ fitness — and to their business’s fitness.
A office health and wellbeing programs could make a difference.
Brian Rinker is Senior vice president and Chief Administrative Officer for Blue cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Your employees and their families will benefit, and your company’s final analysis can get healthier, too.
Take a look on the data.
The centers for sickness control and Prevention (CDC) have found that approximately seventy five % of employers’ fitness care prices come from treating continual, however preventable, conditions introduced on via obesity, excessive blood drive, high ldl cholesterol and lack of physical recreation.
based on a fresh Gallup poll, unhealthy workers are costing U.S. employers approximately $153 billion annually.
It makes sense that healthier personnel charge agencies much less cash. however what can an employer do?
Instituting a robust employee health and wellness application is a great step toward improving the standard fitness of an organization and its personnel.
contemporary findings by way of the well being Council of the usa exhibit, for each dollar spent on worker health initiatives, a firm can see a return of $three to $6 in reduced fees, more desirable productivity, reduced absenteeism and improved clinical assurance rates.
beyond the competencies to cut back costs, the CDC additionally studies that agencies committed to a way of life of wellbeing get hold of different benefits similar to lower turnover rates, the enchantment of true candidates and better job delight.
Encouraging health and health will also be whatever thing so simple as starting a walk-at-lunch membership, presenting more healthy decisions within the employee cafeteria, hosting displays by using fitness professionals and offering short and simple preventive screenings like blood force tests.
Some employers offer gym memberships and other incentives for personnel to reduce weight or hold a match weight, and to maintain their blood force, cholesterol and sugar stages below control.
something form the employee wellness program takes; the influence is healthier personnel. And healthier employees are more productive, take fewer ailing days and help in the reduction of worker accidents and insurance chance.
At Blue pass of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BCNEPA), the effects of our employee health courses were dramatic.
as an example, over the past four years, our employees have utilized costly Emergency Room (ER) services 33 percent much less often than the common local agency with BCNEPA coverage.
How do we help preserve our employees out of the ER?
We encourage them to peer a physician consistently, comprehend their cholesterol and blood pressure numbers and acquire common physical endeavor.
These are all important elements in fighting and managing continual ailments — the main cause of avoidable ER visits within the U.S., based on a 2014 survey of hospitals via the Healthcare Intelligence community.
because of BCNEPA’s wellness software incentives, our employees exceed the federal govt’s healthy individuals 2020 dreams for getting an annual physical, and for getting annual cholesterol and blood force checks.
Our employees additionally exceed the fit individuals 2020 dreams for physical undertaking and for now not using tobacco.
Many insurers offer aid for office wellbeing actions to their purchasers.
At BCNEPA, our Blue health options application is purchasable to all lined employers to help personnel and their lined dependents control chronic situations, enrich health or with no trouble delivery down the direction of a more fit culture.
This global worker health and fitness Month — we motivate all employers to make a commitment to their employees’ fitness — and to their business’s fitness.
A office health and wellbeing programs could make a difference.
Brian Rinker is Senior vice president and Chief Administrative Officer for Blue cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
[HealthFitness] Spokes in the teamwork wheel
HealthFitness has posted a new item, 'Spokes in the teamwork wheel'
I recently led a team building exercise in which different teams had 90 minutes
to assemble 13 bicycles for donation to the Boys and Girls Club of Lake County
in Illinois.
After correctly answering trivia questions, each team was given the necessary
parts, tools and instructions. Good natured taunting, not surprisingly, ensued.
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I recently led a team building exercise in which different teams had 90 minutes
to assemble 13 bicycles for donation to the Boys and Girls Club of Lake County
in Illinois.
After correctly answering trivia questions, each team was given the necessary
parts, tools and instructions. Good natured taunting, not surprisingly, ensued.
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Friday, April 24, 2015
[HealthFitness] Fitness wearables market keeps ticking
HealthFitness has posted a new item, 'Fitness wearables market keeps ticking'
If you are planning to add wearables to your corporate wellness program,
you're in good company. The number of companies expected to use wearables for
corporate wellness is projected to skyrocket in the next several years. In
fact:
Employers will integrate more than 13 million wearables into their employee
wellness programs by 2018.
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If you are planning to add wearables to your corporate wellness program,
you're in good company. The number of companies expected to use wearables for
corporate wellness is projected to skyrocket in the next several years. In
fact:
Employers will integrate more than 13 million wearables into their employee
wellness programs by 2018.
Three out of four [...]
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Monday, April 6, 2015
Health and fitness orgs unaware superior Non-Kinetic adult exercises exist
Non-Kinetic exercises do not use the skeleton to carry exercise forces, they instantly oppose muscle contractions. The resistance to Kinetic exercise typically compress joints and spinal disks first
According to virtually all leading health and fitness organizations, including the National Academy of Sports Medicine and Livestrong. com, “all muscle and heart exercises (wet or dry) are Kinetic”.
These health and fitness organizations teach that all exercises fall into one of two “kinetic chain” categories. One is for weight bearing, like weightlifting, and the other is non-weight bearing, covering most everything from push-ups to swimming, to dancing, to climbing and running.
Either way, all Kinetic exercises still use the skeleton to send and receive the powerful exercise forces (muscle effort and motion resistance) to and from the muscle contractions that they target.
Today (April, 3, 2015) engineer James R Farrow, from the Adult Exercise Project, the first group to use Bio Force Mapping (BFM) to trace and measure exercise forces through the human body, explained exclusively to examiner.com, how many of today’s most common exercise methods force hundreds of times more force through adult spinal disks and joints than they can physically aim against the muscle contractions they target.
He explained “First, because Kinetic exercises drive all effort and resistance energy through joints and spinal disks, they are unable to drive more force that the weakest link in their ‘kinetic chains’ can tolerate. Just approaching their first skeletal weakness is extremely painful for most adults and seniors, so most will never even do stout kinetic exercise regularly”.
He explained this limited to first weakness kinetic problem has kept it impossible for adults, even the strongest athletes, from building core strength even remotely close to their full potential.
He continued, “Genetics are a good start, but all of the strongest and fastest adult athletes built far stronger joints and disks during their childhood (than average adults), by frequently overworking these parts before they hardened into adulthood”.
“Because great athletes are able to exert their muscles much harder than average Joe’s, they look as if they have come close to maximized strength. However, their much stronger than average weakest links, still ‘plateau’ their muscle strengthening, long before their full potential can be reached”.
Kinetic exercise appear to be all people have used for thousands of years, so today's health and fitness experts and organizations remain unaware that far superior Non-Kinetic adult exercises can even exist.
Next he offered some obvious evidence to prove his point. “If a full sized adult athlete tried to run with all the range their core running muscles (their largest group) could swing their hips, they would instantly destroy a knee. This is a simple to see example of how the first skeletal weakness, along a kinetic chain, massively limits targeted muscle exertion. This also exposes that a massive amount of core running strength has never been exercised, when running is used as a running exercise”.
Than he explained, ” Non-Kinetic Exercises end almost every problem that Kinetic exercises cause for adults, because they only use external sources, to move motion resistance and muscle effort forces directly to and from targeted muscle contractions, instead of the skeleton. Since Non-Kinetic Exercises do not create kinetic force transfer chains through the skeleton, they are the first fitness science that will allow almost any average to older adult to exert their targeted muscles up to hundreds of times harder than they can while doing virtually anything else, including all traditional (kinetic) exercises”.
He ended by explaining the first physical law of Non-Kinetic exercise methods, “The external motion resistance always moves across the extremities and spine, this direction naturally drives the resistance against contractions first, exerting muscles up to hundreds of times harder, because this direction also totally prevents joint and disk compression.”
To finish his point, Kinetic exercises drive their forces parallel (up and down) the spine and extremity bones, which uses immensely more exercise energy by smashing and torquing joints and disks, than is aimed against targeted contractions. Virtually all of the External Motion Resistance force from a correctly engineered Non-Kinetic exercise method only opposes targeted contractions.
Craig Wise, the National Health and Fitness method reporter for Examiner.com, has been involved with this adult exercise methods efficiency study for years, and so cannot discuss its methods or manual of Non-Kinetic Exercises for adults, as that could be considered self-promotion.
As more non-promotional information about Non-Kinetic Exercises is released, look for it here at examiner.com.
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According to virtually all leading health and fitness organizations, including the National Academy of Sports Medicine and Livestrong. com, “all muscle and heart exercises (wet or dry) are Kinetic”.
These health and fitness organizations teach that all exercises fall into one of two “kinetic chain” categories. One is for weight bearing, like weightlifting, and the other is non-weight bearing, covering most everything from push-ups to swimming, to dancing, to climbing and running.
Either way, all Kinetic exercises still use the skeleton to send and receive the powerful exercise forces (muscle effort and motion resistance) to and from the muscle contractions that they target.
Today (April, 3, 2015) engineer James R Farrow, from the Adult Exercise Project, the first group to use Bio Force Mapping (BFM) to trace and measure exercise forces through the human body, explained exclusively to examiner.com, how many of today’s most common exercise methods force hundreds of times more force through adult spinal disks and joints than they can physically aim against the muscle contractions they target.
He explained “First, because Kinetic exercises drive all effort and resistance energy through joints and spinal disks, they are unable to drive more force that the weakest link in their ‘kinetic chains’ can tolerate. Just approaching their first skeletal weakness is extremely painful for most adults and seniors, so most will never even do stout kinetic exercise regularly”.
He explained this limited to first weakness kinetic problem has kept it impossible for adults, even the strongest athletes, from building core strength even remotely close to their full potential.
He continued, “Genetics are a good start, but all of the strongest and fastest adult athletes built far stronger joints and disks during their childhood (than average adults), by frequently overworking these parts before they hardened into adulthood”.
“Because great athletes are able to exert their muscles much harder than average Joe’s, they look as if they have come close to maximized strength. However, their much stronger than average weakest links, still ‘plateau’ their muscle strengthening, long before their full potential can be reached”.
Kinetic exercise appear to be all people have used for thousands of years, so today's health and fitness experts and organizations remain unaware that far superior Non-Kinetic adult exercises can even exist.
Next he offered some obvious evidence to prove his point. “If a full sized adult athlete tried to run with all the range their core running muscles (their largest group) could swing their hips, they would instantly destroy a knee. This is a simple to see example of how the first skeletal weakness, along a kinetic chain, massively limits targeted muscle exertion. This also exposes that a massive amount of core running strength has never been exercised, when running is used as a running exercise”.
Than he explained, ” Non-Kinetic Exercises end almost every problem that Kinetic exercises cause for adults, because they only use external sources, to move motion resistance and muscle effort forces directly to and from targeted muscle contractions, instead of the skeleton. Since Non-Kinetic Exercises do not create kinetic force transfer chains through the skeleton, they are the first fitness science that will allow almost any average to older adult to exert their targeted muscles up to hundreds of times harder than they can while doing virtually anything else, including all traditional (kinetic) exercises”.
He ended by explaining the first physical law of Non-Kinetic exercise methods, “The external motion resistance always moves across the extremities and spine, this direction naturally drives the resistance against contractions first, exerting muscles up to hundreds of times harder, because this direction also totally prevents joint and disk compression.”
To finish his point, Kinetic exercises drive their forces parallel (up and down) the spine and extremity bones, which uses immensely more exercise energy by smashing and torquing joints and disks, than is aimed against targeted contractions. Virtually all of the External Motion Resistance force from a correctly engineered Non-Kinetic exercise method only opposes targeted contractions.
Craig Wise, the National Health and Fitness method reporter for Examiner.com, has been involved with this adult exercise methods efficiency study for years, and so cannot discuss its methods or manual of Non-Kinetic Exercises for adults, as that could be considered self-promotion.
As more non-promotional information about Non-Kinetic Exercises is released, look for it here at examiner.com.
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