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5 resources to consider adding to your office gym

As more and more business owners add fitness centers and gyms to their offices as part of employee wellness initiatives, they come up against a quandary. What does one actually put into an office gym? How do you walk the line of creating an economical space, but still providing a fitness area that employees actually want to use? While you may not want to outfit your office gym with all the latest and greatest workout equipment, you do want to ensure you include the basics — things like free weights, exercise balls, and resistance bands, for example. To fill in the rest of the gaps, these five resources can help.

One of the more economical and space-saving pieces of exercise equipment that you can add to an office gym? Exercise ropes. To help your employees learn how to use them and how to design a full-body, full workout around them, these cards can come in handy. The large cards depict 50 different exercises, for a different workout every day.
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Don’t want to fumble with individual exercise cards that are easy to lose (or drop when your fingers are on the sweaty side)? Post this full laminated poster on your office gym wall. It offers instructions for 40 different exercise rope workouts, to challenge individual body parts or your entire body. The 20 by 30-inch poster is made in the USA.
If dumbbells are more your team’s speed, though, you can give them everything they need to get a full-body workout with just the dumbbells and this poster. Providing instructions and illustrations for more than 30 different dumbbell workouts, it’ll help team members get in a few reps before the work day.
Show your employees all the workouts they can do with limited equipment. This set of four laminated posters makes it easy, showing a range of exercises that one can do using simply their body weight, a resistance band or an exercise ball. There’s even an entire poster dedicated only to stretches. With all of this info at your fingertips, there’s no excuse not to get active.
Still not enough options for your active team? This set of 19 laminated workout posters offers hundreds of ways to workout, so there’s something for everyone in your office, no matter their fitness level or preferred way to work out. From yoga to Pilates, dumbbell workouts to kettlebell exercises, bodyweight workouts to foam roller tips, these posters show it all.

Getting your team to workout is easier when you give them the tools to do so. Beyond just setting aside a room in your office as a workout space and outfitting it with some standard equipment, make getting started actually easier for your team, with some guided instructions. There’s no need to bring in a pricey employee health consultant, though. These resources do the trick on a small business budget, offering your employees a wide range of activities, to fit a wide range of fitness levels, so that there’s never an excuse to not take advantage of this valuable employee perk.

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