Lifestyle Fitness

 

Theo Chapple, founder and CEO of Lifestyle Fitness, has always strived to bring the benefits of exercise into the workplace. Corporate, rather than individual gym memberships make a work-life balance a lot more accessible.

 

Sponsor of the Shortland Street CEO Breakfast in March, Lifestyle Fitness has three gyms across Auckland including one at the corner of Apollo Drive and Rosedale Road.

 

Theo says the idea behind corporate memberships is to provide large companies with access to gym facilities, enabling staff to increase productivity through healthy living. Cost has previously been a restrictive factor and Theo puts this down to individual gym membership pricing structures being applied to staff numbers.

 

“Think of Lifestyle Fitness as a bolt-on division of your business; it is a resource you and your staff can access,” says Theo. “Whether your staff level is 10 or 1000, we can tailor the package to suit. We can provide in-house health and safety seminars with trainers on-site”. 

 

Many of its current clients utilise Lifestyle Fitness’ offer of taking the gym to the workplace and, from the following comments, confirm that a healthy workforce can mean a healthy bottom line.

 

“The enthusiasm of our 24 staff that have joined has increased productivity and collegiality across the whole office,” says Bill Paton, GM Autex Industries. 

 

Jonathan Bell, health and safety manager, Cadbury, says health and wellbeing is an increasingly important component of business health and safety programmes. “By providing access to appropriate fitness facilities and training as part of an overall wellness programme, both the business and employees benefit. The number of sick days taken since our staff joined

Lifestyle Fitness on the corporate deal has decreased significantly,” he says.