Health Workshops
Health, lifestyle & performance coaching
BLISS ~ Yoga Pilates classes in the workplace
5 point non-invasive health check
Workshops
Over 24 specific workshops to be customised for the needs of your workplace health. These workshops include:
Back Care, Posture & Energy
Maximising Energy During the Working Day
Healthy Habits in the Work Place
Understanding bio-rhythms and how to create a healthier workplace
Dis-ease your lifestyle habits and the nervous system
Structuring enough and adequate daily and weekly activity
Health, lifestyle & performance coaching
This process involves numerous aspects of motivational psychology, nutrition, sleep patterns, personality predispositions, goal setting, tracking progress, review and evaluation. This process includes full lifestyle evaluation to assist the creation of the health & performance you desire.
BLISS ~ Yoga Pilates classes in the workplace
Breathing ~ Lengthening ~ Invigorating~ ~ Stretching ~ Strengthening
Combining Pilates matwork, moderate to gentle Yoga poses & breathing techniques to enhance abdominal strength, back strength, core stability, joint mobility, muscle length, muscle tone & muscle relaxation.
This class is an effective program for all levels of experience with benefits of increased energy, greater abdominal strength, improved posture and muscle balance.
This is a small group class that will be customized for your individual needs with options for people with back, neck and physical limitations.
5 point Health Check
Blood Pressure
Subjective stress survey
Flexibility & Abdominal activation
BMI
Posture & Body Typing
Health Concerns in the Workplace
Activity Levels within Australia
At least one-third of Australian men are not physically active due to ‘work and family commitments’
57% of Australians are active enough to gain health benefits
30 min activity most days of the week
19% Australians participate in organised exercise
43% Australians are not active enough (fail to meet guidelines)
10% of Australians are completely sedentary
2005 Medicare Study on health profile of Australian Employees (Survey)
62% overweight
56% High risk behaviour
53% Stressed
50% Minimal Exercise
Employees with poor health behaviour have up to 9 times annual sickness leave
Employees with high wellbeing scores rate themselves twice as productive as those with low scores
Those with high wellbeing scores report working up to 3 times more productive hours than those with low scores
Employees participating in workplace fitness programs report less stress and improved psychological wellbeing
Depression
500 000 Australian adult males affected by depression (one in 6 men).
Suicide rate in Australia 4 times higher for men than women
Male depression associated with an increased risk of health disorders, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes
Depressed men are twice as likely as depressed women to abuse alcohol and drugs
Prostate Cancer
10% of Australian men are treated for prostate cancer at any one time
12 000 men diagnosed each year, 2,700 die each year.
Used to be ‘old mans disease’, however increasingly affecting males from aged 45
Best prevention is a healthy, balanced and varied diet which includes whole grains/fibre
Impotence
Affects 13.1% of Australian men aged 40-49
33.5% of Australian men aged 50-59
51.5% of Australian men aged 60-69
69.2% of Australian men aged 70-79
Various causes, including
Stress, anxiety and nervousness
Relationship problems
Poor health
High alcohol consumption
Some medications/operations
Low testosterone levels
So can therefore be psychological and/or physical
Obesity/Alcohol
In NSW, 59.1% of adult males are overweight or obese and are more likely to indulge in high risk drinking than any other state
Influences impotence, sleep apnoea (5% of males suffer from sleep apnoea), diabetes type II, heart disease, hypertension, stroke and prostate cancer
Hypertension
2 million Australian men over 25yrs are affected by hypertension.
Common in overweight and obese individuals, stressed males, and those who consume high salt diets and excessive alcohol
A risk factor for Cardiovascular disease (incorporating coronary/ischaemic heart disease and stroke.
CVD – Coronary Heart Disease
Coronary/ischaemic heart disease accounts for 40% of deaths in Australia each year
Claims lives of 1 in 3 Australians
To significantly lessen risks:
Control blood pressure
If blood cholesterol too high – reduce
Loose weight / follow a low fat diet
Stop smoking
Reduce alcohol intake
Lessen processed foods
CVD – Stroke
3rd biggest cause of death after cancer and coronary heart disease
To lessen risk loose weight and limit alcohol
Diabetes Type II
8% of male population aged 25 and over currently diagnosed (and for every diagnosed person there is another living undiagnosed
In Australia, one person diagnosed every 7 minutes
Diabetes Australia believe that by 2010 2 million Australian adults will be officially diagnosed with Diabetes Type II, and for every diagnosed person goes an undiagnosed one
Usually diagnosed over 45 years (with a higher proportion of males) but diagnosed persons are now becoming increasingly younger
3.2 million Australians currently have diabetes or pre-diabetes – ‘pre’ being a condition where blood glucose is higher than normal but not high enough to diagnose diabetes, however if left untreated, diabetes likely to develop within 5-10 years,
Risk factors include being overweight, physical inactivity and poor nutrition
Kidney failure
Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace
2006 Australian study found that alcohol had been a contributing factor in an estimated 4% of work-related fatalities and between 3-11% of workplace injuries. Other drugs contribute to 2% of workplace fatalities
Study showed that in 1998-99 alcohol and other drug use resulted in productivity costs exceeding $2.9 billion
In 2004, 4.4% of all Australians went to work affected by alcohol whereas 2% went affected by illicit drugs.
