Category / Fitness / Health
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Lower Back Pain: The Latest Resources
Many of you if not everyone know this feeling – you were just trying to tie a shoelace or load shopping bags into the car trunk and all of a sudden there…
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Baicker, Cutler & Song: Workplace wellness programs can generate savings
Baicker, Cutler & Song, 2010, Health Affairs Study: Meta-analysis of 22 studies on potential financial benefits of wellness/fitness company programs. Results: Average savings per employee per year for a physical wellness…
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Dan Frolec: How to build core strength and body flexibility in 4 weeks
Core strength and body flexibility represent two of the key elements of fitness (others being cardio capacity, balance and overall strength). The fitness industry somehow understands the importance of these two areas…
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Employee Wellness Program Outcomes: A Case Study
Jason S. Swayze & Lisa A. Burke-Smalley, Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, January 2013 The study: examines program outcomes associated with wellness efforts at a large midwestern-based, globally operating manufacturing company, focused…
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Matthew G. Wattles & Chad Harris: The Relationship Between Fitness Levels and Employee’s Perceived Productivity, Job Satisfaction and Absenteeism
Matthew G. Wattles & Chad Harris, Journal of Exercise Physiology, Volume 6 Number 1, February 2003 Study: 143 employees of a northwest business completed a fitness assessment measuring percentage body fat, cardiorespiratory…
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LinkedIN: 7 Reasons Why Core Strength is Important for Leaders
People usually tend to believe that core strength is something for body builders only. Nothing can be more far from reality. Core muscles are used in almost any movement, they act as…
