Cycle Solutions
In line with our ‘Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Business’ week, we interviewed Steve Edgell, director of a Cycle To Work scheme. He explains how the scheme works and what employers can do to increase the fitness and ultimately productivity of their workforce.
What does the Cycle to Work scheme encourage?
Employee fitness and wellbeing is at the heart of the principles promoted here at the Cycle to Work scheme. In London, transport costs are extremely high and every single emission contributes to global climate change, which is destroying the planet. Cycling is a carbon-neutral, environmentally-friendly mode of transport. And what’s more, it’s free!
However, it isn’t just the trees and our wallets that benefit from cycling to work… Riding a bike for half an hour per day, 5 days a week can give you:
- Up to a 35% lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke
- Up to a 50% lower risk of type 2 diabetes
- Up to a 50% lower risk of colon cancer
- Up to a 20% lower risk of breast cancer
- A 30% lower risk of early death
- Up to an 83% lower risk of osteoarthritis
- Up to a 68% lower risk of hip fracture
- A 30% lower risk of falls (among older adults)
- Up to a 30% lower risk of depression
- Up to a 30% lower risk of dementia
And that list isn’t even exhaustive! These physical bonuses benefit the employee directly, but also the employer — improving the health of employees also boosts the two P’s: productivity and profit!
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