Your fitness center was built as an afterthought. It’s small, filled with random equipment and is not user friendly. You want to expand, but more space is not an option. What do you do?

You’re looking for ways to engage your employees or tenants around fitness and wellness but you don’t have a dedicated fitness center. No problem! You don’t need a large, fully staffed fitness facility to provide your people with a robust fitness experience. Offering a group fitness program can help achieve this. Here’s how:

Friendly and knowledgeable fitness center staff can spread the word about your corporate wellness programs.

If you have a staffed, corporate fitness center from a reputable fitness management company, you’re in luck. You have at your disposal a team of skilled health and fitness specialists who are experts in communication, goal-setting and long-term behavior change - perfect for ensuring your employee engagement initiatives are reaching your employees.

These days, a corporate or tenant fitness center is more than an assortment of cardio equipment, machines and a mat or two. People are much savvier about fitness and have access to tools and information not available even five years ago.

Here are several things you can do to upgrade your space to keep in step with the latest fitness trends and keep your members engaged and coming back for more.

Fit for Duty is often interchanged with pre-shift warm-ups (or "stretch and flex" programs) when discussing soft-tissue injury prevention programs. Both Fit for Duty and pre-shift warm-up programs have enormous value, if implemented properly, and both can be a great addition to any safety program.

So you’ve built a fitness center for your property. Tenants are happy. Employees think it’s a great perk. But a month or two in, attendance has dropped. Equipment is dirty or not working, people have started to complain and usage has dropped.

We know your bottom line is important, but so are the people working for you. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD’s) cost a staggering $20 billion in direct costs each year. Additional indirect costs bring that number to nearly $50 billion a year. I think you get the picture.

Mindfulness is everywhere right now. It’s the hottest thing in corporate wellness programs - promising to re-engage workers, increase productivity, decrease stress and make employees happier.

Your company spent a lot of money building, refurbishing or remodeling your corporate or tenant fitness center. If your goal was to improve health and productivity, wouldn’t you want your employees or tenants to get the most out of it?