Wellness Competitions Encourage Corporate Health Promotion Plan Participation

Wellness Competitions Are Popping Up Everywhere

Wellness Competitions 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 Competitions 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 Competitions is even though there really is only way “real” winner; everyone that participates in the challenge is a life winner.

Wellness Competitions offers incentive to Get Healthy

Establishing a Wellness Competitions in your office is a great way to get employees to participate in your established Corporate Wellness Program. Have employees form teams and receive points for everything from attending a organization Wellness Fair to getting a health risk assessment to beginning an physical activity regimen. At the end of the year, the teams will win prizes based on the number of points they have accumulated.

Wellness Competitions Enhance Corporate Health

Not only will Wellness Competitions improve the health of your employees, it will improve the overall health of the corporation by providing benefits such as fewer injuries, worker’s comp claims, decreased medical care costs, better worker attendance, and better organization morale.

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