Axa healthcare launches workplace fitness guide

More than a quarter do not exercise in the week

Victoria McKeever
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Axa PPP healthcare has published a "bite-sized" guide for employers to promote physical fitness in the workplace, after finding more than a quarter (27%) of employees do not exercise in the week.

The guide runs alongside the provider's sponsorship of ukactive's National Fitness Day, when employers throughout the country pushed back the start of the working day by an hour to give employees an extra hour for their personal fitness.  Tips included providing cheap activities in the workplace, such as walking meetings and lunchtime walks. Promoting the use of onsite facilities such as bike racks, showers and changing rooms, was another suggested method to encourage active commuting.  Asking if local leisure centres are open to offering employees discounted memberships or even comin...

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