Corporate Wellness

Did you know?

• The annual per capita increase in medical expenditures and absenteeism associated with obesity ranges from $450 to $2,500 per obese employee. The estimated cost of obesity in employees due to medical expenditures and absenteeism is about $285,000 per year at a firm with 1,000 employees. Source: IDEA Fitness Journal, January 2006.
• Employees who increased their activity levels from 0-1 times per week to more than 3 times per week reduced their medical claims by an average of $2,202 per year. Source: Managed Care, 2004.
• Employers who invest in worksite health promotion programs can see a return of $3-$6 for every dollar invested over a 2-5 year period. Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine, December 2005.

Dane Burks and Co. Fitness can help your company reduce the pain of rising health care costs by designing a corporate wellness program. These programs help alleviate the negative impacts of unhealthy employee behavior, such as obesity and smoking, on health care costs. It is estimated that seventy percent of all illnesses are due to lifestyle-related causes such as obesity and physical inactivity.

Dane Burks and Co. Fitness will design a wellness program custom-fitted for your company’s size and type--and budget. Dane has years of experience developing fitness programs, teaching classes, and motivating people to get fit in fun and engaging ways.

What does a corporate wellness program look like?

Programs can range from awareness and incentive programs, which encourage employees to eat right, increase physical activity, and get medical screenings, to in-house fitness facilities that maximize an employee’s fitness opportunities as well as add to employee satisfaction.

What Dane Burks and Co. Fitness offers

*Corporate wellness programs designed for your company's size and budget

*Fitness facility design for existing space or new space.

*Incentive programs and employee events, such as health fairs and walks

To find out more about starting a corporate wellness program at your company,

contact Jeff Wilson at 615-681-6983. Or by email.

Dane Eats Humble Pie!

Dane Burks took on his Facebook fans and dared anyone to outwalk him during the month of May. And he lost. But not because he sat on the couch. In his daily work selling, servicing, installing and moving fitness equipment, he walks a lot. During the month of May, he averaged three miles of walking per day, well over 200,000 steps total for the month. Not good enough, though.

Dane was bested by Christopher McClintock of Brentwood, TN. Christopher averaged five miles of walking every day. His monthly total was an astounding 351,000 steps--that means in a year at this pace he would top four million steps. Christopher’s dominating performance won him the grand prize of a refurbished commercial treadmill valued at around $7K.

Second place was taken by Jerry Swehla who averaged 13K+ steps a day. And congrats to Sandy Crain who came in 3rd with an average of 9K+ steps a day.

The truth is, says Dane’s wife, Deanna, the contest was designed to get as many people enjoying the benefits of walking as possible. “If you look at it that way,” says Deanna, “everyone who participated won. Incuding Dane!”

Dane Burks & Co. Fitness plans to sponsor the contest again next year. Deanna says they have no choice. “We have to for two reasons. We want to get people going again. And Dane wants a rematch.”

Reconditioned Commercial Fitness Equipment vs. Big Box Retail Products

Why buy used or reconditioned commercial fitness equipment?
1. The quality is much higher then anything you will see in a big box store.
2. The design of the units are made to be more stable and secure feeling.
3. Replacement parts are more readily available for them.
4. There tend to be more service technicians for commercial equipment.
5. The price is equal to or slightly more then a high end big box item.
6. In some cases, you can pick out or buy the exact unit you use on a daily basis at your local Y or gym.
7. You get to support the environment by recycling materials that still have plenty of life left in them.
Please post any questions or experiences with either product line.

Dane Burks & Co. Fitness Relocates, Adds Inventory

Hendersonville, TN – Dane Burks & Co. Fitness has moved to 760 East Main Street, Suite 2, previously occupied by the Stone Angel. The move was prompted by the company’s expanding sales effort and the recent acquisition of more than 500 pieces of used strength and cardio equipment purchased from the YMCA of Middle TN. The company handles the equipment removal and logistics for the YMCA each year when they purchase new equipment.

“We are growing our new and refurbished sales division and this purchase was a great opportunity for us. The new store allows us to display more of our product in a retail environment versus our current refurbishment workshop in Hendersonville and our warehouse in Gallatin. ” says Dane Burks, president of Dane Burks & Co. Fitness.

The company offers new commercial fitness equipment by AbSolo, BH Fitness, Bowflex, 1st Degree, FreeMotion, Legend Fitness, Matrix, Stairmaster, Schwinn, Paramount, Polar, SPRI, and Star Trac as well as a full inventory of refurbished fitness equipment by Precor, Cybex, Star Trac, True, Nautilus and Technogym. They also offer personal training services at the store located at the Shoppes at 760 East Main, behind Hendersonville Produce and Myra Godby Photography. For a complete listing of available products and services, visit them online at www.daneburksandco.com.

For More Information, contact Jeff Wilson.

Solider Family Fitness

If you could be transported instantly to one of the family housing fitness centers at Ft. Campbell, bypassing the sentries at the security gates, the Cobra attack helicopters on display, and the memorials dedicated to the Screaming Eagles who paid the ultimate price, you might have a hard time figuring out where you were.

You would see people dressed in workout gear on well-maintained commercial fitness equipment. You’d see toddlers playing in a supervised area within view of their parents running on a treadmill or using a stepper. And there, a few steps from the fitness center—a Starbucks! It would seem so familiar to you—but not what you’d expect on an army base.

These centers serve the soldier families living at Ft. Campbell. The neighborhoods are run byFt. Campbell Family Housing, a private contractor with a 50-year lease on the buildings and property. Of four community centers planned for Ft. Campbell, two are built and operational and two more are under construction, to be opened in Late Summer 2010. Each community center serves approximately 1000 households. In all, Ft. Campbell Family Housing houses 16,790 family members, including the soldiers.

Debra Cash, director of On Post Family Housing at Ft. Campbell, talked with Dane Burks & Co. about the nature of their service and the facilities they provide.

“These families have loved ones serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, in Europe, and even in places we aren’t allowed to know about, and we want them to feel good about being there,” she says. She says the soldier families’ needs are just like other families, and they try to make daily life as normal as possible for them.

“We try to make it so all the families have to worry about is whether their soldier is coming home safe.”

The neighborhoods are within the protected perimeter of Ft. Campbell. “We don’t like to use the term ‘safe and secure,’ because no place can guarantee that, but we refer to our neighborhoods as ‘gated communities,’ because that is the closest comparison to what these are like.”

They want families to feel at home. Because Debra and most of the people who work for her have been in military families or served in the military themselves, they understand the struggles of the military families. They have lived in Army-run housing. They have learned what works as well as what can be improved.

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