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Corporate Wellness

Wellness Program Calculator
This interactive PDF document allows you to look at the cost, and potential cost savings of implementing a Corporate Wellness Program. This calculator is based on published research to provide you with a scientifically based estimation on the value of a program within your organisation. Click here to download the PDF calculator or here to link to the web based calculator.

FitSense Wellness Newsletter No. 1 – November 2007
FitSense’s bi-monthly newsletter provides useful information to assistant in improving health and fitness. This newsletter looks at effective weight loss tips, nutrition myths and summer goals to get you active and energetic.

FitSense Wellness Newsletter No. 2 – January 2008
FitSense’s bi-monthly newsletter provides useful information to assistant in improving health and fitness. This newsletter looks at managing lifestyle goals and relapses, training in the heat and a sample flexibility training program.

Sports Science

AFL GPS Research Report 2005
In 2005, the AFL research board assigned FitSense Australia to undertake initial research into using GPS during games to monitor and assess player demands. This report is the first substantial report to use GPS to assess AFL player demands. Click here to assess this report.

AFL GPS Research Report 2006
Due to the success of the 2005 report, the AFL research board once again assigned FitSense Australia to further investigate the demands of an AFL player based on GPS captured data. This report dealt wisth a much greater volume of data than the 2005 report, and also looked at the changes in the player demands between seasons, and therefore the potential effect that rules changes had on the game. Click here to assess this report.

What is EPOC?
This article is written by FitSense's Ben Wisbey, and was published in Triathlon and Multisport Magazine. It looks at how Excess Post Exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC) is used by athletes to monitor training intensity and loading. Click here to assess this report.