Advanced Corporate Running Program

Hit The Road's Advanced Corporate Running Program is specially designed to help your organization continue to enjoy the benefits of a corporate running team.

The advanced program encourages those who already run and those graduates of the beginner running program to continue their healthy habit while fostering teamwork and communication. It also show your employees that you are investing in their continued health.

This program consists of a structure workout program designed for runners with different aspects covered in each weekly session including technique, injury prevention, speed work, balance and reaction training.

All of Hit The Road's running programs are instructed by insured and certified trainers who focus on improving the fitness of your employees while limiting risks to participants.

Employers have the option of fully subsidizing the cost of the training for employees or to endorse the program to their employees at the their own expense. Both options have high participation rates with a drop out rate of less than 18% over the course of the program.

Hit The Road can also measure the effectiveness of their programs and supply that data to the employers for wellness program planning.

If you'd like more details about Hit The Road's Running programs for corporations please contact info@hittheroadrunning.

For more details on the benefits of corporate running teams, please read the Corporate Run Programs White Paper published by Tony Denford.

Workplace Wellness Survey

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Beginners Running Program

Hit The Road's Corporate Beginners Running Program is an excellent way for your organization to realize the benefits of initiating a corporate run team.

There are benefits for the employees and the employer. Employees will benefit from participating in regular activity and all the health benefits associated with doing so while the employer benefits include lower absentee rates, higher employee retention rates, more productive workforce, improved corporate image and improved communication and teamwork.

All of Hit The Road's running programs are instructed by insured and certified trainers who focus on improving the fitness of your employees while limiting risks to participants.

Our beginners programs can get your workforce up and moving and culminates in a goal run where you can increase your companies profile in the community.

Employers have the option of fully subsidizing the cost of the training for employees or to endorse the program to their employees at the their own expense. Both options have high participation rates with a drop out rate of less than 18% over the course of the program.

Hit The Road can also measure the effectiveness of their programs and supply that data to the employers for wellness program planning.

If you'd like more details about Hit The Road's Beginner Running program for corporations please contact info@hittheroadrunning.

For more details on the benefits of corporate running teams, please read the Corporate Run Programs White Paper published by Tony Denford.

Workplace Wellness Saves

Here's a report from Ohio.com about the benefits of workplace wellness initiatives.

There's also a growing trend for companies that have wellness initiatives in place to actually pay employees or give other incentives to take part in the programs offered which indicates that these companies are realizing the benefits from their programs.

Companies do not have to invest millions to reap the rewards. Even small initiatives can offer benefits. Not only the bottom line is affected either. Other less tangible benefits are also proving true like a more productive workforce, better customer service, reduced absenteeism and improved company image.

Workplace Active Living - A Needs Assessment

Here is an interesting report from the Alberta Centre for Active Living. It contains many interesting statistics on the benefits of workplace initiatives including stats on corporate image and recruiting, productivity, absenteeism, turnover and medical costs.

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Working towards wellness Report

PriceWaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute has developed a report on Corporate Wellness initiatives and best practices in developing, launching and maintaining workplace wellness programs.

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Fitness Walking Program

Help establish a fitness walking group at your workplace.

Walking for Fitness is one of the most popular Corporate Wellness programs due primarily to it's ease of implementation. Walking groups can cater to a large number of employees and has the added benefit of needing little space and having a low overhead over other programs.

Employees enjoy the flexibility of being able to do these programs during their lunch or scheduled breaks without becoming too sweaty to return to work. It takes very little equipment or investment from the employee but still has significant benefits to their health.

Apart from the obvious health benefits there are other benefits to both employer and employee including socialization, improved communication, team building, employee motivation, and employee retention. Employees also have reduced stress levels and more energy.

Hit The Road's Fitness Walking programs are scalable to fit your organizations needs from supporting program set-up, to ongoing fitness education for participants, to fully managed and supervised programs delivered by certified personal trainer specialists.

For more information about how your organization can realize the benefits of a workplace Walking for Fitness program, please contact tony@hittheroadrunning.com or visit corporatewellness.hittheroadrunning.com.