Your Fitness Stimulous Package

Your Fitness Stimulus Package
Have you ever noticed that some people just seem more alive than others? People who exercise their brains and their bodies are more alert, attentive, and eager to serve. These are the “high energy” folks whose personal magnetism makes them leaders in their respective businesses and helps their ideas to be received in a more positive manner.
The man who places his work above his health cuts the roots out from under himself. He sacrifices the best years of his life and thousands of dollars in health expenses. He robs himself of an active, energetic and effective lifestyle. He robs his employer and his family as well.
Your fitness, or lack of fitness, could be a critical ingredient in your personal success, or lack of success.

An Incomplete List of the Costs of Poor Health:

* Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts found that with every 1 percent increase in body mass index, an individual's annual health care costs goes up $120. Source: Boston Globe, March 22, 2006
* "Of the $5000 per employee the average employer spent on health care in 2001, more than 95% was spent on diagnosis and treatment, with maybe 2-3% being invested in early detection (screenings) and no more than 1-2% in prevention (prevention - like your trainer talks about). This reactive approach persists despite evidence that up to 50% of health care expenditures are life-style related and therefore potentially preventable." Source: David Anderson, PhD reporting in Wellness Councils of America's Absolute Advantage 2003
* Each smoker costs an employer an additional $3,856 a year in health-care costs and lost productivity. Source: Billings Gazette December 10, 2005
* Nationwide smoking attributable productivity losses from 1997-2001 cost $92 billion. Source: Centers for Disease Control, June 2005
* The National Safety Council stated that in 1996, backaches alone cost industry more than $1.2 billion in production and services and $275 million in worker's compensation. Source: The American Council on Exercise, ACE Fitness Matters, January/February 2006
Don’t let excuses come in the way of your health. Not during these tough economic times. It’s not the case that you cannot afford to spend the time on fitness. In fact; the statistics show that when it comes to maintaining good health, you can’t afford not to invest the time.
Let the change start with you. Start with something as small as a renewed commitment to your own fitness and the health of your family. It’s good for your body, your mind, your work, and your country.


Sound Fitness and Nutrition Can Decrease:
Sound Fitness and Nutrition Can Increase:

*Daily fatigue
*Depression
*Coronary artery desease
*Hypertension
*Noninsulin dependant diabetes millitus
*Cancer
*osteoperosis
*obesity

*Work, recreational and sports performance
*Insulin sensitivity
*Glucose (blood sugar) tolerance
*Immunity to desease (sick days)
*Sense of well being