Occupational health
and fitness newsletter
THE CORPORATE FITNESS CENTRE
- fitness equipment for sale -
The Crookback Clinic is Australia's leading corporate musculo-skeletal risk audit and management program.
In the Crookback Clinic I come to your office and take your staff through a comprehensive, 2 hour, musculo-skeletal health program.
It's a program for all your staff, whether they spend most of their day sitting down or standing up.
For those of your staff who spend all day sitting down, I spend time at their desk helping them to set the chair, the desk the keyboard and the monitor up so they're sitting up straight.
Most importantly, they'll learn some of the key exercises they need to do on a regular and systematic basis to get themselves back in alignment.
Musculo-skeletal Risk Management Audit Report
Even more importantly, at the conclusion of the program I present you with a musculo-skeletal risk management audit report and recommendations about what you can do to dramatically lower the risk of musculo-skeletal dysfunction in your workplace.
Click here to take a look at some of the recent audit reports.
To learn more about this program and how it can dramatically lower your organisation's risk of musculo-skeletal dysfunction click here.
Click on the cover to purchase a copy of my ebook, How to Fix Up a Crook Back. This is the book you can purchase for your staff.
This is just about the best book around on fixing musculo-skeletal dysfunction. Click on the cover to purchaser a copy.
My back got better after I bought this book, went to the Egoscue Clinic in San Diego and started doing the exercises. Before I did that, I couldn't sneeze or cough without feeling like some one was pushing a red hot poker into my back. Now, whilst I'm not 97% fat free, I'm 97% pain free. Dysfunction gone.
THE OFFER
Feel free to send this newsletter out to your staff.
Send them to this link for some of the key exercises they need to do to keep their back and neck in better alignment.
If you're a medium to large business I'm becoming more an more convinced of the value of establishing a corporate fitness centre on your own premises - BUT, only if it's part of an occupational health, fitness and wellbeing strategy, and only you supply your staff with the incentive, and for some, dare I say it, an obligation to use it to get their bodies back into good shape.
The corporate fitness centre is just one aspect of a comprehensive strategy to improve staff health, fitness and wellbeing and lower the costs of absenteeism, presenteeism, workers compensation and staff retention.
Done properly it is a highly valued value-added proposition.
Done poorly it becomes a dark, dank room in a basement used only by the blow wave and bicep set.
It starts with the room
It's got to have a light, airy feeling, a feeling that attracts regular folks. I hate gyms stuck in dark basements.
It needs a good air conditioning system and some fans to blow off hot air. If smells of stale sweat forget it.
Then the equipment
It's got to be a good mix of aerobic fitness and strength training equipment with space available for stretching - or if possible, aerobic, CrookBack Clinic, Yoga, Tai Chi, Body Balance and Pontius Pilates classes.
A mate of mine who runs a boutique fitness centre is retiring and getting out of the business and is putting the equipment on the market.
The equipment is only a couple of years old. Being a boutique centre it hasn't had a lot of wear. Most of the clients were women over the age of 40. It's an ideal set up for someone wanting to establish a corporate fitness centre - lock, stock and barrel - and for a modest investment.
There is a list of what's for sale below.
Then the education program
I helped one organisation establish their fitness centre by
1. giving staff a seminar presentation on health and fitness
2. making an individual assessment of people's fitness
3. inducting small groups of staff into how to use the centre safety
4. accrediting people to use it whenever they wanted to - the accreditation clearly outlining the risks and responsibilities of both employer and employee. If you just focus on the risks you'll never do anything. Accept that they are low and that the benefits far outweigh them.
I'd advise on getting St John or Red Cross in to provide short, sharp sessions on resuscitation - that meet your needs. That's useful for any one any way.
Safety
It's got to be a place that's safe for people to use on their own, though in most places there will be more than one person there are the same time.
I always suggest people do their workouts with a mate. Being obligated to meet someone at the gym at a particular time keeps both of them at it.
Security
It's worthwhile going to the extra expense of putting a security device on the door so people can only use the centre if they're accredited. You can also know who's been. You can give pats on the head and bags of lollies to regular attendees!
It's an investment
If you view the establishment of a fitness centre as a cost it's doomed from the start.
Budget it against your total absenteeism, presenteeism, workers compensation and staff retention costs - and over five years. If you do the job properly you'll make sure it more than pays for itself in reduced costs.
Management
It won't work unless senior management is keen on the idea and is totally supportive of a comprehensive occupational health, fitness and wellbeing (OHF&W) strategy.
You'll need to make someone in OHF&W responsible for making a success of it, enrolling staff, managing it, evaluating the personal and corporate objectives. It's not going to work on its own.
HERE'S HOW I CAN HELP YOU TO SET UP YOUR FITNESS CENTRE
1. Advise you on what equipment to purchase so you attract maximum participation and so the users can gain maximum benefit.
2. Conduct a series of health, fitness and wellbeing seminars for all your staff firing them up to get themselves back into better shape.
3. Conducing health and fitness assessments.
4. Accrediting staff to use the centre.
5. assisting you to employ a local fitness practitioner to supervise some sessions - particularly prehab and rehab sessions for people at grave risk of putting their hand in your workers compensation pocket.
6. Monitoring and evaluating the success of the program.
THE EQUIPMENT SALE
AEROBIC EQUIPMENT
| 3 | AVANTI X-Fit7 | Motorised Treadmills |
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| 3 | AVANTI Z-Fit1 | Elliptical Trainers |
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IMPULSE R1600
IMPULSE U1400 |
Recumbent Cycles
Upright cycles |
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RESISTANCE EQUIPMENT
| 1 | AVANTI | Cable Crossover |
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| 1 | AVANT | Single Cable Row | |
| 1 | AVANTI | Pec Machine | |
| 1 | AVANTI | Lat Pulldown/Seated Row | |
| 1 | AVANTI | Leg Extension and Curl | |
| 1 | IMPULSE | Bench | |
| 1 | AVANTI | Bench | |
| 1 | AVANTI | Squat Rack |
MISCELLANEOUS
| 1 | AVANTI, 4 tier Weight Rack |
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| 70 | Assorted Free Weights | |
| 20 | Assorted Plates | |
| 2 | Bars | |
| 2 | Plate Stacks | |
| 2 | Dumbbells | |
| 8 | Handles for Cable Rows | |
| 4 | Medicine Balls | |
| 2 | Mini Tramps | |
| 12 | Fitballs | |
| 2 | Shatter Ladders | |
| 2 | Skipping Ropes | |
| 1 | Speed Rope | |
| 2 | Duro Discs | |
| 5 | Pilates Mats | |
| 20 | Large Towels |
If you're interested give me a call (0424) 391 749 or complete the contact form and I'll provide you with more details about whom to contact and where to go to look at the equipment.
In the mean time stay tuned, highly tuned and remember you can't blame the chair, the desk or the mouse if you're not strong enough to keep your body in good alignment.
Regards
John Miller
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