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4 MINUTE FITNESSTM

With employees being a company's greatest asset, keeping employees healthier is a concern for many companies.  As a former director of HR, I fully understand this concern.

4 Minute FitnessTM is a great way to:

  • Decrease stress
    Job stress creates up to 60% of all absenteeism and costs employers more than $200 billion each year
    C. Cooper & R. Payne, eds. Causes, Coping and Consequences of Stress at Work, 1988 and National Safety Council, 1995
  • Alleviate lower back pain
    Lower back pain has been cited as the second most common reason for missing work
  • Improve breathing
    Proper breathing lowers high blood pressure, reduces fatigue, improves sleep, and enhances memory
  • Promote positive attitudes
    Optimists are more successful than pessimists in work, school and sports, suffer less depression, achieve more goals, and respond better to stress
  • Enhance visualization skills
    Some of the world's most successful athletes and business people use positive visualization to enhance performance
  • Create positive emotions that boost immune function
    Depression, a common problem among workers, costs the US $44 billion per year in lost productivity.
    National Foundation of Brain Research, 1999

4 Minute FitnessTM combines ancient secrets taken from tai chi, yoga, qi gong, meditation with modern medical discoveries and winning mental techniques used by professional athletes. The secret to our success is our innovative "Layered Practice" method. Practicing one method at a time would consume 16-20 minutes. We simply do them simultaneously so the entire process takes just 4 minutes to complete.

Cost Benefit Ratio

The University of Michigan Health Management Center has found that for every one dollar invested in workplace wellness, a company could expect three dollars of cost savings or benefits. $1 saves $3. Great investment.

DECREASE STRESS

  • Job stress costs employers more than $200 billion each year in absenteeism, tardiness, burnout, lower productivity, high turnover, worker's compensation and medical insurance costs.
    National Safety Council, 1995

  • A study on stress in the workplace found that 62% of the people surveyed experience what they call "a great deal of stress" at work. That's up 15% from the previous year.
    Aventis Pharm, 2001

  • A study of more than 46,000 employees at 6 large companies found that costs linked to serious, persistent stress count for about 8% of the total health care expenditures of those companies.
    American Journal of Health

How much money are you losing every year?

What are you doing about it?

4 Minute Fitness™ teaches easy and effective stress reduction techniques which can lead to significant improvements in emotional health, including reductions in stress, anxiety, burnout and guilt.

ALLEVIATE LOWER BACK PAIN

4 Minute Fitness™ exercises almost every muscle in the body, especially the lower back.

And gentle, full body movement improves immune function, keeping employees healthier!

IMPROVE BREATHING

99% of our population breathes poorly. According to world experts, breathing better is the most important personal activity we can engage in to prevent and even reverse many health problems.

4 Minute Fitness™ teaches dynamic, profound breathing techniques, and then continually improves unconscious breathing with simple daily practice.

PROMOTE POSITIVE ATTITUDES

Optimists live longer than pessimists. But before they die, pessimists spend years destroying office atmosphere and sabotaging productivity.

The positive imagery in 4 Minute Fitness™ can enhance performance, improve attitude, identify and eliminate office saboteurs, and decrease blood pressure, breathing rate, heart rate and muscle tension.

ENHANCE VISUALIZATION SKILLS

Many employees feel out of control, with little hope. They focus on and visualize only more of the same "misery". They have forgotten to focus on all that is good, all that they have, the wonders and joys of life (and work).

4 Minute Fitness™ incorporates winning techniques used by professional athletes, leading to increased confidence (I CAN do this!), improved performance and greater personal expectation.

4 Minute Fitness™ helps employees re-focus on gratitude for all the benefits and joys these jobs offer in their lives.

CREATE POSITIVE EMOTIONS THAT BOOST IMMUNE FUNCTION

Negative emotions (like anger) suppress immune function, while appreciation and gratitude are associated with a relative increase in healthful neurochemicals, boosting immune and bodily function.

  • In a 3 year analysis of over 46,000 workers from six major US companies, depression and unmanaged stress emerged as the top two most costly risk factors in terms of medical expenditures - increasing health care costs by 2-7 times as much as physical risk factors such as smoking, obesity and poor exercise habits.
    R. Goetzel et al. J Occupational Environmental Medicine. 1998; 40(10)

Studies show that positive emotions enable us to function with greater efficiency and effectiveness.

4 Minute Fitness™ teaches techniques that focus on love, appreciation, gratitude and acceptance. Everyday.

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