Corporate Fitness Program

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Life Plus Fitness can help your company

Lower healthy care costs
Improve moral
Maximize work performance

Fact: Each inactive employee cost $2000 more per year than active employees

Fact: Inactivity now costs a whopping $100 billion annually in direct and indirect costs in the United States.

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Our program begins with a fitness assessment and a health questionaire that provides us with the capability to develpment personalized exercise programs. All exercise programs consist of cardio, strength and flexibility training. We help each person address their fitness needs and achieve their goals.

Maximum results in minimum time.

We are committed to helping you help your company, organization and your people integrate the good habit of exercise into their lives.

Research on Benefits of Corporate Fitness

Reduced Health-Care Costs- Medical claim costs were 55 percent lower among corporate fitness program participants than non-participants over a six-year period—an average of $478.61 for participants, versus $869.98 for non-participants at Steelcase Corporation.

Increased Productivity- 80 percent of Union Pacific Railroad's employees believed their exercise program was helping them become more productive at work, and 75 percent thought regular exercise was helping them achieve higher levels of relaxation and concentration.

Reduced Absenteeism- Over a six year period, DuPont saw a 47.5 percent reduction in absenteeism among participants in its corporate fitness program.

Reduced Turnover - The Canadian Life Assurance Company found turnover among its fitness program participants 34.4 percent lower over a seven-year period compared with non-participants during that same time.

Positive Return on Investment - Over five years, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Indiana realized a 250 percent return on its corporate fitness program investment—$2.51 for every $1 invested.

Source: MeritCare Health System, American Journal of Health Promotion, Health Values, Health Behavior and the Canadian Journal of Public Health

Statistics on Obesity and Health Insurance Premiums

An obese worker costs a company anywhere from $460 to $2,485 more per year than a normal-weight employee, according to a 2005 study coauthored by RTI International and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The lifetime medical costs related to diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol,hypertension, and stroke among the obese are $10,000 higher than among the non-obese. Among the overweight, lifetime medical costs can be reduced by $2,200 to $5,300 following a 10-percent reduction in body weight, according to a study in the Economics of Obesity.

In 2006, employer health insurance premiums increased by 7.7 percent - two times the rate of inflation. The annual premium for an employer health plan covering a family of four averaged nearly $11,500. The annual premium for single coverage averaged more than $4,200, according to the National Coalition on Health Care and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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