I switched my job from a general surgeon into an industrial physician this summer and now I'm surprised to know its variety of welfare service. The firm surely deserves to be called one of the representative companies in Japan. Now, a unique program to encourage workers to do exercise will start from October in partnership with the health-related firm, TANITA.
In this program, the participants try to walk round Hokkaido virtually within 2 months. If you walk 8300 steps per day, you'll finish the route. Every participant is given a pedometer and the walking data will be sent to the server computer. The program is a kind of contest and is competed between teams which consist of 5 workers, company branches and individually. The standard of award is not only the total steps but the rate or absolute value of the drop of body weight, BMI, body fat percentage, and so on. The orientation meeting was held today and a pedometer, which is shown below, was given to every entrant.
Everyday aerobic exercise is good for health as you know, but it's not easy to continue. In this program, however, walking steps will be recorded everyday as a sort of contest. Several workers seem to start health-conscious walking after lunchtime though the start of the program is Oct. 1st. The result will be announced in December and I'll write about my result here.
歩数イベント
日本を代表する企業の一つに就職し、驚いているのがその福利厚生。健康を守るイベント一つのとして、これも有名な健康機器の企業、タニタとタイアップしての歩数イベントが開催されることになった。
これは仮想的に北海道を２ヶ月掛けて歩いて一周しようというもので、一日に８３００歩歩けば完走できるらしい。各人に万歩計が渡されて記録は公表される。５人でチームを作り、チーム対抗戦、６箇所の拠点対抗戦、そして個人戦。
毎日の有酸素運動が健康に良いのはわかっているが、なかなか継続できないことが問題であるが、努力が数字で記録され、競われるとなれば話は別。昼休みに工場内を歩き回る人の姿が明らかに増えた。１２月上旬に結果が出たら報告する。
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