Fitness in the workspace

My name is Kyle Nicholson and my presentation is called

fitness in the workplace.

Now, my proposals, main goal is implementing a gym facility

for all employees at our company and only our company.

I would promote self care for both physical and mental

health, an intern of that, an increase in productivity in

the workplace.

Now, my vision is to see employees who maybe have

or have not take a step back and look at

their health, to do so with the on site gym

and being more self aware of their health than before

they entered this company and try to become better than

they were when they showed up.

Now, this implementing a gym, it's not just about making

employees look good, it's going to change the whole culture.

This is more than fitness.

It doesn't matter if you blue collar or white college,

every facet of work, you're going to face some sort

of stress if you're working on the floor or you're

part of the rat race, trying to work your way

up the corporate ladder, According to the February 2011 issue

of Harvard men's health watch exercise has the ability to

both accelerate and relaxing, conserved a counter depression and dissipate

stress. Clinical research and results also have shown that workers

sleep better after exercise and are able to lower both

their cholesterol and blood pressure with better sleep.

You'll see less cortisol.

Cortisol is the main problem and the main contributor to

stress and it can tear down your body easily.

Many people will go many ways trying to get rid

of their stress and we're trying to give our employees

the best outlet to release the stress and I believe

that implementing a gym that is easy, accessible to our

employees will do just that.

Now, if you have employees are not super stressed out

and want to rip off their other employees heads, you're

going to get something that I think is so much

greater and unseen from thinking about adding a gym.

You're gonna see inclusion, like never before, you'll see relationships

of people that you didn't think we're gonna happen.

Most people, some people just show up to work and

clock in clock out, don't really talk to many people

and don't really care about the people that work with

now, some people, when they come, they don't go to

the gym, they are intimidated by the gym.

They never worked out in gym and don't know how

to use equipment or they just don't have an interest

and don't have really any anybody to go with having

it on work site, you're going to see people working,

are going to the gym together, making relationships, that we're

not going to happen without this gym.

And if you have more loyalty and an atmosphere where

teamwork, it spills over into the community and reflects well

on your organization, well you're going to see what the

next slide is and what I think the most important

slide for all the ceos and upper class people paying

attention to this presentation is the productivity increase.

If you have workers who want to work together and

are less stressed, they will do their job way beyond

their original um ideas.

Our starting points in this company Studies show that six

out of 10 workers said that their time management skills,

mental performance and ability to meet deadlines approved on the

days when they exercise the amount of overall performance boosts

was about 15% according to the findings which were presented

this month and meeting of American in college sports Medicine

in Nashville Tennessee, This is one of the main points

I want to get at because I can preach all

day about how good this is going to make our

employees. But at the end of the day, we are

business and we need to see results.

This will make a results increase.

We're gonna have more confident workers can have workers who

want to work together even more and they're gonna be

less stress and more focused than I've ever seen.

And that's just to start of why I think this

proposal of adding an on site gym is what we

need here Now.

Our employees need to know that we care about them,

we need them to know we want them here and

their health comes first and that can come from physical,

it's not a secret regular exercise and good diet can

dramatically reduce rates of heart disease.

It can also promote weight loss and muscle growth, which

can lead to physical appearance.

That is greater and a more confident person.

We need more confident people in the right place.

We don't need tired people who do not want to

be here.

We need confident people.

And I think physically this will help, but physically can

only get you so far.

The next slide I would like to talk about is

mental health okay?

Mental health is and it is more important to health

and physical.

For a study in 2017 is selling, published in the

Journal of Sports Medicine and Gordon and his colleges conducted

another uh Another meta analysis of 16 studies involving 992

told participants it concluded that the resistant training significantly improves

anxiety symptoms among with both health participants and participants with

a physical or mental illness.

A lot of times we won't see what is troubling

a worker in the workplace.

and like I said before, there are many other facets

for people to let go stress.

Not some our immediate help that long term are not

good for employees.

We need to check on them.

We mental health, especially in this day and age is

very important.

And it needs to be addressed.

Physical exercise promotes for better health.

And we need to promote that and also be able

to talk about these sort of things in the workplace

and it be okay to talk about these things.

Yeah. Also you will see workers playing out their days

and being more organized and on task, having to plan

out your day to exercise, makes you more time conscious

and makes you more organized and more efficient with the

time you do.

You have to do your work and exercising.

It actually keeps you on track the things you know,

going to work out before work or after work.

Makes you feel.

Some people stressed like I have to get here, I

have to go to this place, working out at work

and not having the rush keeps you on task.

It makes you from this hour, this hour I'm working

out and then I'm back to work and if I

don't fit that I can't you know, do my work,

I can't do my workout, it will keep you on

track. It is a good thing now uh to the

part of our discussion that is more than just the

fluff and more of the upside for all our employees.

It's surreal talk and it's the cost that will come

with this.

Now I could continue talking about all the benefits or

I can get down to the nitty gritty and explain

to you what we need to make this happen.

And I'll also explain the things that we need.

Yes will cost us.

But we will make that money back.

We will exceed that money.

And we will continue to promote a culture that will

push forward the loss and initial part of our uh

construction for this gym.

Well not even compare to the returns we will see.

Yeah. Now the equipment we need most gyms cost $25,000.

But the good news is we're not trying to be

the next L.

A. fitness or a sport to or whatever they're calling

themselves these days.

We are trying to be our gym for our our

employees, not a group of kids trying to come in

and work out or uh just it's our employees.

So we will focus on our employees and the gym

they need And the gym they need only costs $3-$6,000.

Yes it will be a smaller gym but this smaller

jim will have good equipment for great employees.

Now this building will cost up to about $10,000.

It will need to include showers, changing room, good wiring,

good lighting and every requirement and safety protocols that will

need to make this gym.

The staff usually we uh most gyms have younger uh

employees come in who usually work during summers or through

school. Or we can provide workers who uh at any

age you can come in and do the job.

Either way they will be qualified to do this job.

We need a cleaning crew if that being the workers

there or professional one.

And we want to make it clear that this gym

is not 24 7, this is not A.

T. C.

We're not having people come around the clock here.

We will we will stock before work and we will

stop after work but we will not go through the

night. We don't want people who do not go belong

to this company here.

We don't want people who we think would damage our

gym and we don't want people who would steal from

our jim.

We want our employees and the liability for our employees

already are taken in coming to work every single day.

So the people out there are our employees and not

anyone outside of that.

Now the main thing when you run starting a new

gym then it fails and we're gonna talk about the

real stuff so we make sure this works is basically

people come to work out.

Everybody comes to work out.

We have an empty we have a room full of

waits for no reason and no returns.

But this is how we're going to do it.

We will have prizes for people coming in.

We're not trying to make the next Arnold Schwarzenegger in

our gym.

If you're coming in for two hours a day and

you are that muscle man or you're just on the

treadmill for 10 minutes, you are doing a great job

and we want you here but we will implement prizes

for fitness goals because we want to either give cash

prices, gifts, vacations, days off.

We want a reason for you to be there other

than just your health.

We need those incentives.

There's another incentive is a cheaper gym membership.

I can guarantee you this game will be cheaper than

any gym in the city of Memphis and you'll be

able to do just if not more.

And then what you can do at other places, you

will do what you need here.

You have easy access.

If you are employed here, you already have access.

We need you.

We will need a little small feed but it will

be a smaller feet than any place in Memphis.

And this will in turn help us be able to

pay back what we spent on this jim enclosing.

I want you to know, I think this proposal is

a great idea and will help with mental, physical and

production in your workplace and there are things that you

need to see for any employee and it's just I

think it's great.

The gym will In the beginning will cost the company

but the average 15% increase in productivity and the payments

and small payments from employees from a few years will

pay back and exceed the loss and start a new

culture of health, healthy hardworking employees and the returns for

the company will exceed the losses not day after listening

to me, I would like you to know, and I

know you care about your employees and this will show

that you care about them even more, that you care

about their health.

You care about their goals and their dreams, and you

care about seeing them good and not just making your

profit, but implementing this will make you profit.

I hope you take this to heart and I hope

you made the right decision.

Thank you for listening today.

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