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September is the national month for arthritis. Did you know that this condition is the most prevalent in Canada and one of the highest causes for long lasting invalidity in the country? More precisely, it’s one in every five person that must deal with it, which equals to around six million Canadians. 10% of those are younger than 65 years old.
Through the year, employees and managers at Olympe thought a lot about behavior changes in businesses and now we wish to share the information that we gathered with businesses with our new conference on mental health. We take dive into different themes like how to identify stressful elements which deepens the resilience to organizational changes. This conference presents means to address behavioral changes in simple, jargon-free way inspired by theoretical models, management and psychology concepts otherwise difficult to obtain.
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With teleworking, colleagues have fewer chances to interact and having friendly chit-chat. Communications are frequently focus essentially on the job and professional relations can also take a hit. This phenomenon can lower your team engagement toward the company.
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According to the World Health Organization, obesity is when the body mass index (BMI) is beyond 30. It is a chronic disease with multiple sources: environmental, metabolic, cultural, educational, psychological and many others. Even if this information is known, the public and the medias are frequently downplaying its complexity to a lack of physical activity and bad food habits.
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In the past year, most of businesses saw their employees exiled from the office and started working from home. Slowly, this new routine took the place of the normal office day for better or worse.
Maybe you are wondering if a service of custom-training program for your teams is pertinent, or if it would benefit them at home or at work. This article should help you to see the different options!
Stephanie, a kinesiologist for Olympe was a teacher for an average of 15 group classes each week. She moved between locations on her bicycle even during winter. When she got a promotion to coordinator of a physical activity center, she had to let go of most of her group class. At that point she did not realize that it would have a negative impact on her physical condition.
Every way you can move is important for physical and mental health. The best way to improve those is by combining different types of training to avoid repetition and decrease the injury risks. Having fun while training and choosing complementary exercises are important. You could run for cardio and make one or two bodybuilding sessions at home to improve muscles health and end your week with an online yoga class for more flexibility. To ensure that your training is not random, here are two major advantages to having a plan tailored for you.
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If your teleworking office has not been thought ergonomically, after a whole year working from home, you might have developed pain in your neck, shoulders and/or back. Here are some tips and tricks to help you improve your posture or to avoid making your pain chronicle in the future.
It is a good idea for people of every age groups to adopt a lifestyle that encourages moving daily and plan periods of time where we step out of our comfort zone with a more intense and supported effort. In this article we will present you with different ways to add some movements to your activities, so your day looks more like Joe’s and less like Ann’s (see image below) and doing so, decrease your sedentary levels to less than ¼ of your day.