Belfast Met's Staff Health & Wellbeing Week

“Working with Gary at Fitness Belfast on staff wellbeing sessions at Belfast Met has been an excellent collaboration.
Gary is extremely professional and you can tell he is extremely passionate about health and wellbeing. No request is too much and Gary really works with you to ensure provision is bespoke to your needs.
Highly recommended!”
Belfast Met Management testimonial

I’ve been delighted to work with Belfast Met in the past on one off events – delivering my award winning online BroFlo Yoga for Guys workshop as part of their International Men's Day programme and delivering an online Chair Exercise & Yoga Workshop as part of Belfast Met’s annual Staff CPD event “Challenge, Change and Opportunity”.

So I was super excited to be asked to support their Health & Wellbeing Week in April 2021 – a full week of holistic activities designed to support on-site and off-site staff.

To cover the whole week, we hosted a mix of recorded and LIVE sessions, designed to:

Outline the benefits of better work/movement balance whilst #WFH
Encourage just 2 mins of movement each hour to boost mental health
Decrease stress and increase mental wellbeing whilst working from at home
Increase postural awareness, strength and mobility
Highlight importance of regular exercise on mental health
Gain accountability & structure for exercising
Motivate them, while having fun!

All sessions were be tailored to beginners, but emphasising how they might progress when becoming regular users of the material also!

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We created a dedicated Belfast Met + Fitness Belfast: Online Content Hub, to maximise the use among the staff with accessible, snappy, on-demand content. It featured:

4 x bespoke recorded sessions featuring 15 minute at-home exercise sessions covering:

HIIT
Upper body strength for desk workers
Lower body strength for desk workers
Stretching and flexibility

Plus a recording of our LIVE session of Yoga and Relaxation.

I’m thrilled that there was such great participation throughout the week, and such great feedback from management and staff participants. Here’s to many more events :)

Fitness Belfast Belfast Met Corporate Wellness Yoga Testimonial — “An excellent form of relaxation at the end of a busy day!”

Belfast Met Staff Participant Testimonial

Fitness Belfast Belfast Met Corporate Wellness — “I came away totally relaxed at the end of the session - in mind and body.”

Belfast Met Staff Participant Testimonial

If you’d like to work with Fitness Belfast on an initiative for your team, check out more of our work below, on our Corporate Wellness page, or just get in touch.

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