Corporate
Healthy employees make a healthy workplace – and the benefits of this go far and wide. Our clients tell us their employees have less sick days, better team morale and are more productive at work. And it’s easy to get the ball rolling with our range of corporate health and wellness services.
The free Life! Program makes adopting healthy behaviours a simple and inspiring process for workplaces. It starts with a one-on-one session with each staff member to understand their individual health risks and goals. Then the group sessions kick off with each session covering a variety of evidence-based topics, including healthy eating, proven exercise strategies, losing weight and keeping it off, stress management and improving sleep.
To generate workplace interest in the Life! Program our exercise physiologists can come to your workplace to deliver a free 1-hour Healthy Lifestyle and Wellbeing Seminar.
The popular seminar covers topics such as the latest evidence on full fat vs low fat dairy, the best exercises for weight loss and injury prevention, the truth about red wine, how to reduce sedentary time, the obesity and diabetes epidemic, and concluding with a summary of the evidence-based Life! Program, tailored to your workplace setting and free for your staff.
We also offer workplaces a range of wellbeing seminars, including the following topics:
- Reducing stress in the workplace
- Managing the wellbeing of an ageing workforce
- How to lose weight and keep it off – an evidence-based approach
- How to fit exercise into a busy lifestyle
- Preventing and managing low back pain in the workplace
- The health benefits of adequate sleep and how to achieve it
- Preventing workplace injury
- Diet and exercise myths and misconceptions
- Alcohol & Smoking – the effects on physical and mental health
- Fluids – maintaining hydration and reducing calories
- Fibre – a proven key to healthy weight, cholesterol, glucose and gut health
- Fats – the latest evidence for healthy heart and weight
- Understanding and interpreting food labels
- How to reduce fatigue and increase energy
- Cardiovascular disease and diabetes – am I at risk?
- And more…
For a more individually tailored approach, our exercise physiologists and dietitians provide individually customised approaches including health assessments and lifestyle prescription programs for staff. We apply proven strategies, including nutritional modification, functional exercise prescription, and goal setting to achieve a healthier workforce. These programs target each worker’s unique needs as well as your goals as an organisation. We are able to provide a range of group exercise classes to assist with maintaining motivation and adherence to these programs.
There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach when it comes to workplace health interventions, so we work with you to tailor our health and wellbeing strategy and service delivery to meet the needs of each individual workplace.
Benefits of health and wellbeing at work
- Reduce absenteeism
- Reduce presenteeism (being unwell or injured when at work)
- Improve engagement
- Increase job satisfaction
- Increase individual productivity
- Increase staff morale, satisfaction and motivation
- Improve concentration
- Reduce stress
- Reduce sick leave
- Reduce worker compensation claims
- Improve corporate image
- Improve physical and mental wellbeing
Work-related injury and disease cost the Australian economy $61.8 billion in 2012-13. Let’s reduce the stats!
One body • One Life
Seniors
Our health and wellbeing sessions are tailored to your community group, club, or retirement village.
Deciding to improve your health and wellness is a great goal at any age. And participating in a group program is a wonderful way to achieve it. Our qualified exercise physiologists and dieticians work with local community groups, clubs and retirement villages to help people live more active and fulfilled lives.
It’s easy to kick-start your new life with our free government-funded, group health and wellness program. The Life! Program makes changing your lifestyle a simple and motivating process for groups of any age or ability. It starts with a one-on-one session with one of our health experts, so we can understand your individual health risks and goals. This leads into 5 group sessions over 6 months that teach you all about healthy eating, physical activity, reducing stress, improving sleep and preventing chronic disease through proven lifestyle modification strategies.
We also offer a free 1-hour Healthy Ageing and Wellness Seminar to seniors clubs, retiree groups or retirement villages, among others, wanting an interesting and engaging health and wellbeing presentation for their members.
We cover topics such as:
- Healthy ageing
- Improving balance to reduce falls
- Reducing cholesterol and blood pressure naturally
- Improving sleep and reducing stress
- Safe and proven exercises for over 65s
- The latest evidence on healthy nutrition
- The truth about red wine and full fat dairy
- The diabetes and obesity epidemic
- The importance of reducing sedentary time.
We conclude with a summary of the Life! Program, which is a free Victorian State Government-funded lifestyle modification program, helping Victorian adults to improve health and wellbeing and prevent chronic disease. This program is free for all your members, has been run at hundreds of seniors groups within the past decade. The great thing is we specifically tailor the content toward the age demographic of your group or location.
Benefits of wellness activities for seniors
- Improve healthy ageing
- Reduce weight and keep it off
- Live an active and fulfilled retirement
- Improve balance to prevent falls and fractures
- Improve mental alertness and reduce dementia risk
- Prevent unnecessary medication through proven strategies
- Prevent chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke
- Reduce fatigue and increase energy
- Learn how to interpret food labels
- Learn healthy sleeping habits
- Manage stress
“Matthew and the team from Equip4Life have provided Life!program and various workshops on healthy eating and exercises for more than 100 council staff since November 2016.”
“The workshops and courses were very well received and staff who participated have reported that they have been equipped with the latest evidence based knowledge to help them to make the right choices about their diet, exercise and general wellbeing.”
One body • One Life
Personal
If you feel tired, overweight or worried about an injury or chronic condition, it might be time to look at your lifestyle habits.
Our accredited exercise physiologists and dietitians offer one-one-one consultations with individuals in our private practice locations. We offer bulk billing for any Medicare, DVA, TAC or Workcover referrals, and subsidised consults for most health insurers. Consult with your GP to see if you qualify for a referral to access free sessions with our health professionals.
We work with you to identify your lifestyle concerns and goals, and tailor a health and wellbeing program to get long-term results. Whether it’s a individualised home-based exercise regime, a weight management program or general understanding around healthy habits that you need, we’d love to help you in our private health suites.
Benefits of personal wellness programs
- Reduce weight and keep it off
- Receive an individualised home/gym based exercise program
- Individualised nutritional plan to achieve health goals
- Improve strength for everyday living
- Evidence-based strategies to reduce cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose levels naturally.
- Prevent chronic disease
- Reduce fatigue and increase energy
- Learn how to interpret food labels
- Learn healthy sleeping habits
- Manage stress and improve mental health
- Reduce fall risk and subsequent fractures or injuries
“Matthew and his staff are exceptionally good at delivering a health message in a clear and concise manner that is understandable and easy to benefit from. Equip4Life’s facilitators approach makes lifestyle changes achievable, as well as appealing, for everyone involved in the session. Their manner is very professional and based on the latest evidence.”
One body • One Life
Life!
What is the Life! Program?
The Life! Program is a free health and wellbeing program funded by the Victorian Government. The course runs for 6 sessions and is delivered to community groups or workplaces by qualified exercise physiologists and dieticians who help you to set goals and develop healthy lifestyle habits. It’s a free and easy way to turn your life around!
The Life! Program is flexible
The Life! Program can be tailored to suit the availability and needs of each group.
A typical program may look like this:
Week 1: Individual consultations
Week 3: Session 1 (90 minutes)
Week 5: Session 2 (90 minutes)
Week 7: Session 3 (90 minutes)
Week 9: Session 4 (90 minutes)
Week 24: Session 5 (90 minutes)
The program can be tailored to suit a workplace setting, with an alternative program delivery structure available incorporating 45-minute group sessions to fit into your workplace lunch hour or convenient times.
Benefits of the Life! Program
The positive results of this evidence-based health and wellness program have been experienced by over 48,000 Victorians since 2008. 98% of participants would recommend the Life! Program to others.
- Reduce risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke
- Reduce weight
- Increase energy
- Manage stress and improve sleep
- Develop healthy eating habits
- Learn how to interpret food labels
- Feel motivated and supported to reach your health goals
- Live a more active life
“As a result of the course I am shopping now with the “cheat card” and I am looking now at the nutritional food labels. I am eating more balanced meals and include more wholemeal products e.g. brown rice instead of white.”
“Just to be more mindful of what I eat and to reduce saturated fat intake”
“More consistent with doing at least 30 min exercise every day”
The Life! Program is supported by the Victorian Government.
Seminar
WORKPLACES
Healthy Lifestyle and Wellbeing Seminar
Our Healthy Lifestyle and Wellbeing Seminar is delivered ONLINE via your choice of platform (ZOOM, MS Teams, or others of your choosing) is the best way to get a quick understanding of what health and wellbeing is all about. We can host an online seminar at your workplace, community centre, seniors club or retirement village without having to go anywhere or do anything. All you need to do is book us in. And best of all it’s free!
The free 30-minute seminar is delivered to workplaces by one of our qualified health practitioners. By the end of the session you’ll know so much more about how to live an active, healthy life. Plus you’ll have the opportunity to find out about our No Cost 100% Victorian Government Funded Wellness Program and work out the next steps for a healthier, more productive workplace.
SENIORS GROUPS
Healthy Ageing and Wellness Seminar
This engaging presentation is suited to retirees clubs, seniors groups, retirement villages, and community groups aged 65 years or older. The seminar duration can be flexible from 30-60 minutes to accommodate your meeting requirements, and covers all of the following interesting topics including:
- The truth about red wine and low-fat dairy
- Walking: is it enough?
- How to prevent falls and fractures
- Strategies to reduce dementia risk
- The ‘Obesity & Diabetes Epidemic’
- Sitting down is the new smoking
- How to reduce stress and improve sleep
- The Free Healthy Lifestyle & Wellbeing Program (Life! Program)