November 21, 2009

Corporate Wellness

Gold’s Gym is the world leader in health and fitness services and we recognize the importance of living a healthy lifestyle and its effects on your business or organization. Did you know that 70% of healthcare costs in the United States are preventable?

As a nation, we lose $32 BILLION a year because of premature illness associated with cardiovascular diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. Source: American Heart Association
Obese individuals spend more on both healthcare services and medication than daily smokers and heavy drinkers. Source: RAND Corporation
Obesity increases costs in the workplace. The annual per capita increase in medical expenditures and absenteeism associated with obesity ranges from $450 to $2,500 per obese employee. The estimated cost of obesity at a firm with 1,000 employees is about $285,000 per year. Source: IDEA Fitness Journal, Jan. 2006

What does this mean for your business or organization? Company benefits for providing a wellness program include lower healthcare costs, reduced absenteeism and greater productivity and morale. Returns on investment include double-digit decreases in sick leave, hospital admissions, disability days and per capita workers compensation costs. In fact, 86% of companies with more than 50 employees offer a wellness program, and 31% of employers offering disease management programs reported a positive return on investment.

As experts in health and fitness, Gold’s Gym has developed a full array of offerings that can help your employees get healthy by discovering and lowering health risks. All of members have access to our facility 7 days per week, a free fitness orientation with one of our certified personal trainers, over 60 group fitness classes each week, and use of state of the art fitness equipment. All of this is offered in a clean, inviting, and motivating environment with the industry’s best staff at their service. In addition to having access to one of the premier facilities in the Quad Cities, all of our members have travel privileges to over 600 Gold’s Gym locations worldwide, allowing them to stay fit and healthy as they travel.

As well as offering corporate membership rates, we are proud to offer outstanding corporate wellness programming. Our corporate wellness programs will motivate your employees to become healthier while having fun doing so. Gold' s Gym of Davenport also works with a number of health insurance providers and organizations to provide our members with preferred pricing on membership and services, credits and reimbursements for attendance, as well as other fitness incentives to keep you fit and healthy. Check out our complete list of current Corporate Wellness Clients to see if your company or organization participates.

If you have questions or are interested in setting up a corporate wellness program or just a corporate membership, please contact Josh Reeves at 563-355-2900 or email jreeves@goldsgym.net for more information.