Wellness Challenges Encourage Employer Health and Wellness Program Participation

Wellness Challenges Are Popping Up Everywhere

Wellness Challenges are definitely hot right now and they are encouraging more and more people to get healthy and live better. Whether it is a city or a school or a social group or even a whole state, competitive spirits are being ignited by the challenge to be the healthiest team. The Wellness Challenges are usually about a six months to a year in length and they are made up of several teams, these teams all get points for physical activity, selecting healthy foods, and just making better life and health choices overall.

The best part about Wellness Challenges is even though there really is only way “real” winner; everyone that participates in the challenge is a life winner.

Wellness Challenges offers incentive reward to Get Healthy

Establishing a Wellness Challenges in your office is a great way to get workers to participate in your established Employee Wellness Program. Have workers form teams and receive points for everything from attending a business Wellness Fair to getting a health risk assessment to starting an exercise regimen. At the end of the year, the teams will win prizes based on the number of points they have accumulated.

Wellness Challenges Improve Corporate Health

Not only will Wellness Challenges improve the health of your workers, it will improve the overall health of the corporation by offering benefits such as fewer injuries, worker’s comp claims, reduced medical care costs, better employee attendance, and better business morale.

Like we said earlier, everyone is a winner in a Wellness Challenges!

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