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Why stair climbing challenges are so good for your business

Numerous organisations have launched StepJockey stair climbing challenges since our gamification system went live in November. The data feedback shows they are not just driving workplace wellness but teamworking and engagement too. Here’s why.

In-house

Our stair climbing challenges take place within the workplace, which means they’re extremely easy to implement. People benefit from the fact that physical activity can be seamlessly built into the working day, so participation levels - at up to 30% - are correspondingly high. Moreover, because StepJockey challenges take place within the workplace, associated productivity gains - time saved, carbon offset - feed directly into your bottom line.

Redefine exercise

Our stair climbing challenges not only help to transform buildings, they can redefine what exercise means for individuals. Often people believe that exercise means they have to join a gym, run a marathon or sign up to a team sport. By participating in a stair climbing challenge they learn that incidental physical activity (general movement throughout the day) is the key to breaking sedentary habits and establishing good long term health. In surveys more than 60% felt healthier as a result of taking part in one of our challenges.

Data feedback

The rich data feedback that comes with every StepJockey stair climbing challenge, ensures those overseeing the initiative can instantly see the impact it is having. They can access the total calorie burn, steps taken, journeys made and number of players taking part in real-time and break it down by age and gender as they see fit. This makes for easy wellness and CSR reporting, as well as providing real transparency on return-on-investment (RoI).   

Value for money  

Compared with a lot of workplace wellness initiatives, which require companies to pay for membership or purchase individual devices for every employee, launching a StepJockey stair climbing challenge is excellent value. Employees use their own smart phones to take part so all employers need to do is pop up the StepJockey signs and buy a challenge. On average running a month long challenge costs no more than £2.50 per employee.   

Genuinely inclusive

A lot of wellness initiatives appeal only to that small minority who are already fit and healthy. Our validated research shows that StepJockey stair climbing challenges appeal to those that are much harder-to-reach, especially women, the overweight and those that do very little exercise. The reasons for this are disarmingly simple. Stair climbing requires no special time to be set aside and can be built into your working day. It requires no special sports skills or prowess.  And - perhaps most important of all - its something nearly all of us can do without worrying about making a fool of ourselves in front of colleagues. In short, there is no need for Lycra!

Constructive competition

StepJockey stair climbing challenges enable for fun and constructive competition within a workforce. As a company you come together to achieve a common goal (climb Everest) but within that there is plenty of teamplay and competition. Real-time league tables, email notifications, virtual badges, avatars and weekly updates all add to the fun and drive behaviour change. In surveys, over 75% of participants rate StepJockey stair climbing challenges as ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’.

Easy to plan and launch

Unlike some workplace wellness initiatives where employers have to invest upfront for kit, which is often discarded after a few weeks, a StepJockey stair climbing challenge requires no gizmos or sports equipment. Our challenges use the employee’s smart phone to track activity so there are no barriers to entry. Just issue the sign-up URL for your organisation and let your people go. In follow-up surveys, 80-90% of employees said it was easy take part in the challenge.

Habit forming

For some, taking part in a StepJockey stair climbing challenge can literally be life-changing. Stair climbing is an easy habit to form and once you have got it, people tend to carry it into all aspects of their life - the daily commute, the museum stairs, the stairs at home. Kick-starting exercise and improving overall wellbeing is what StepJockey is all about. The evidence is clear that small steps, sustainably and habitually taken are the best way to build wellness over time.

Find out more about StepJockey stair climbing challenges by calling us on 0203 397 8377.

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StepJockey stair climbing challenge employee success story

When Legal and General launched their Spring stair climbing Everest Challenge one team decided to take it to a new level. Here's their team leader's uplifting account.

'Last year I ran my first London Marathon (in aid of Motor Neurone Disease Association), however I didn’t manage to get a place this year. Although I got into the Brentwood half-marathon this March, I just haven’t been unable to get motivated in the same way and so my fitness has suffered.

'As soon as I saw the StepJockey stair climbing challenge, it gave me the motivation to get back into gear and kick start my exercise regime. Not only that, but I also go skiing in April and you couldn’t have given me a better way to warm up my muscles. The race is on!

'Fortunately I have some very competitive people working in my team, so we decided to create our own team which is growing each day.

'Tony and Joe’s motivation is that they have always fancied climbing Everest, but in reality never believed they would make it that far or be able to handle the cold. This opportunity gave them the next best thing! Being that they both play football (a team sport) and both have a good level of fitness, they knew they couldn’t let the team down.  

'I should have also mentioned that since running last year’s marathon, I have put on about 20 pounds so during this challenge I aim to lose a stone.

Adrian's top tips

'As we were recently moved to the ground floor we now have even less incentive to walk up the stairs so we arrange to come into the office early to walk the stairs.

'My team are also under instruction to book meeting rooms on the highest floors, to go and visit their work colleagues instead of picking up the phone and when they need to go to the toilet they are 'forbidden' from using the Ground floor facilities.'

Since launching the challenge four weeks ago, Legal and General teams have burnt over 80,000 calories climbing the stairs in their offices. 

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Up, up and away!

The last few months at StepJockey have been fantastic with people all over the world helping us to make the buildings we live and work in healthier, greener and more active. 

Here’s a brief round-up of what you have helped us achieve:

More than 5,000 staircases rated for calorie burn worldwide - from London to Peru

There are nearly 15,000 of you Stair Champions registered on the system, rating stairs and tracking climbs across the world

When teams in London took on the mammoth challenge of climbing the equivalent of Everest at City Hall, they completed the climb in a week and burnt nearly quarter of million calories in a month!

More than 135,000 stair journeys have now been tracked with StepJockey, saving not just time but also stacks of energy as people ditch lifts and elevators

Our signs and posters are used in more than 90 countries and are now available in different languages including Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish and Swedish 

There are now over 4 million individuals steps rated for calorie burn on stairs all over the world.

Over one million calories have been burnt. If this was fat this would equate to over 111,111 grams of the clunk.

On one of our busiest days for tracking calorie-burn, a team of 200 climbers in California burnt more than 25,000 calories. Phew!

Nearly half a million floors have been entered into our system and are now labelled for calorie burn. 

If we added up every single step on all the stairs rated, we would be able to create a single staircase that was 1,554,080 metres tall.

If you want to join our health-giving stair-climbing movement, start rating stairs near you now.

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'Why I took up the StepJockey stair climbing challenge'

Over the last four weeks teams at Thurrock Council have been one of many organisations battling it out in a StepJockey stair climbing challenge. 

The health-giving challenge has seen them collectively burn the calories it would take to climb Everest and between the teams they have clocked up the following impressive vital statistics:

59,000 calories burned

518 individual climbs tracked

254,456 metres climbed

569,131 steps taken

One player, Ryan, was a big motivator for his team and posted the following article on the Thurrock Council intranet. We loved what he had to say:

'On the morning of the first day of the StepJockey Challenge, as I stood at the bottom of the East Staircase with my phone in hand ready to scan the sign, a passer-by asked me if I was, “Really bothering with this?”

'Before my first step, I considered what he had said and thought back over the reasons why I was getting involved with the StepJockey challenge.

'A few days before the StepJockey Challenge began, I introduced my colleagues to the concept and suggested that it could be fun if we set up a team. The response was fairly positive and the promise of trophies and prizes for winning teams and individuals certainly provided an added incentive to some of the more competitive members of my team - including me! Seven colleagues agreed to join me and start our own StepJockey team, and so Flight of the QA Housing was born.

'My reasons for participating in the Challenge go beyond simply having a competitive nature. I have recently moved from a job where I spent eight hours a day on my feet and following Christmas and the New Year, I have been eager to find a way to squeeze some exercise into my day. StepJockey seemed a perfect fit and like me, members of my team have been going out of their way to increase their stair usage.

'Walking up and down the stairs, it is clear to see that the number of people using the stairs has increased, and seeing new faces taking part has a real feel-good factor to it. Despite queues at the lifts being shorter as more people are taking to the stairs, many members of my team feel that it is just as easy and sometimes a little bit quicker to simply walk up to our floor.

'StepJockey has added a new social dimension to our workday too. As a team we regularly review our positions on the team and individual leaderboards, encouraging one another to try and beat the previous day’s total or to catch up with the person or team that may have just overtaken us. It has added a common goal for us to achieve, all the while being beneficial for our health as individuals.

'Yesterday, I again saw the passer-by standing at the lifts, patiently waiting their turn. I have often thought about what they asked me on that first morning as I have been travelling on the stairs and if I am truly honest, it has helped to drive me towards my goal.

'In answer to your question passer-by, it turns out that I am really bothering with this, and I’m really pleased to be doing it too.'

Find out more about launching one of our health-giving challenges.

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Motivation to lose weight: how I used stairs to improve the health of my workplace

Sue, 45, a HR executive managed to lose weight and make her workplace healthier and greener at the same time.

Here’s her statistics and her story:

• Start weight –80.50kg

• Finish weight – 78.97kg

• Height – 163cm

• Additional steps climbed per week – 2,000

• Average weekly calorie burn – 256.40

• Total annual calorie burn – 11,794.40

• Total annual fat burn – 1.31

• Calorie expenditure in food days – 5.90

• Total weight loss – 1.53

• Start BMI – 30.30 (obese)

• Finish BMI – 29.72 (overweight)

“I’ve always struggled to find ways to get fit. I’ve never been any good at sport or exercise and the thought of going to a yoga class embarrasses me. I work in HR so I know how important being physically active is, not just for health but for productivity.

“I tried to do something that would not only benefit me but involve the whole company. We’re spread across three buildings so I put StepJockey signs up in them all. It’s been a huge success and we’ve seen a 25 per cent uplift in stair use.

This has taken some of the pressure off the lifts, which helps make the buildings more energy efficient and surprisingly, it saves everyone quite a bit of time. More importantly, all this stair use burns on average more than 11,000 calories per employee. This means 110 employees burn over 1.2 million calories in a year and lose over 168kgs between them.

“As for me, I’m climbing at least 2,000 steps a week and, so far, have lost enough weight to bring my BMI down from obese to overweight. There’s no stopping me now, I’m determined to keep going – it’s an easy way to lose weight.

“My boss is delighted. Not only do the staff seem more energised but the calories signs clearly signal to clients that our organisation is a healthy workplace to be and is innovating.”

Read more about the benefits of StepJockey signs in your workplace.

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Calling all health leaders: Make a personal pledge to lead from the front on physical activity in 2015

Getting people more physically active is a priority for public health leaders across the globe.

According to the international Designed to Move initiative, in less than two generations, physical activity has dropped by 20% in the UK and 32% in the US. In China, the drop is 45% in less than one generation.

The impact on human health is both frightening and profound. Sitting really is the new smoking. This year, 5.3 million deaths will be attributed globally to physical inactivity. Smoking, by contrast, is responsible for 5 million deaths per year. 

To get people moving more, setting the right example from the top will be vital. Whether you're a public health director, nurse, wellness lead, doctor or HR manager, if you have a leadership role in health, the evidence is clear: what you are seen to do personally can have a significant impact on others.

As the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE ) puts it, 'Buy-in from the senior management team is key' to getting almost all public health and wellness initiatives working efficiently. 

That is why StepJockey, working together with Exercise Works, are asking health leaders to make a personal physical activity pledge for 2015.

We've picked five physical activities that can be seamlessly built into daily life without cost or significant investment of time. All have been shown to deliver measurable health benefits if integrated into your life and maintained over a significant period of time. They are: 

I pledge to walk 10,000 steps a day

I pledge to take the stairs for all journeys of five floors or less

I pledge to always stand while working at my desk

I pledge to make every second meeting a walking meeting

I pledge to walk, cycle or jog to work at least three days a week

Our survey allows you to say why you've picked the pledge you did and, if you prefer, you can add your own pledge.

Health leaders are signing up fast, so please take just a moment now to fill in the form and be among them. 

Once all the responses are in we will publish the findings in a bid to inspire others to move a whole lot more in 2015!

Make your 2015 Health Leaders Physical Activity Pledge here now.

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London City Hall Goes Stair Crazy in Everest Challenge

Hundreds of staff at London City Hall have ditched the lift this week in a bid to burn as many calories stair climbing as it would take to climb Mount Everest.

The wellness initiative is backed by London Mayor Boris Johnson and has seen City Hall staff split into teams, each vying to burn more calories stair climbing than the rest.  

The StepJockey initiative is designed to engage staff in fun and accessible ways to keep fit and has sparked a stair climbing revolution at City Hall.

More than 200 employees in 35 teams have already signed up. And they burned more than 6,000 calories between them in the first day alone.

Helen Nuki, StepJockey founder said: ‘The teams are definitely working the stairs at City Hall and burning calories fast. Within three days they've burned 25,000 calories and have reached the third stage, Lhotse Wall, already. 

‘Stair climbing is classed as a vigorous physical activity and burns more calories than jogging so everyone who has signed up should be proud of their contribution.

'We have people of all fitness levels getting involved and all those taking part are boosting their physical activity levels, which is what StepJockey is all about.’

Boris Johnson, who has supported StepJockey since the company launched in November last year, added: ‘Anything that gets people more active and helps tackle obesity is a good thing in my book. This initiative is a great mix of old fashioned common sense and smart technology to track and incentivise.’

Since launch StepJockey has rated more than 4,000 stairways for calorie-burn, encouraging people across the world to take to the stairs to kick start physical activity. 

Its health-promoting smart signs and gamification platform are widely used by large corporates and organisations including Proctor & Gamble, Deloitte, NHS, Lloyds of London, Legal and General, Public Health England and KPMG. 

The Climb Everest Challenge is one of several group stair climbing challenges offered by StepJockey. During the challenge, teams climb the south-east ridge of Everest, unlocking six stages including the Valley of Silence, The Lhotse Wall and Death Valley before finally topping out at the summit.

To find out more about StepJockey contact us today or visit the StepJockey homepage.

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StepJockey Scoop Top Innovation Award with Signbox

StepJockey along with our sign manufacturer Signbox won The Innovation Award 2014 at the recent BGSA British Sign Awards.

The award recognises the best in the industry and underlines the importance of StepJockey's work to push the boundaries when it comes transforming the modern workplace with our pioneering stair climbing initiative.

Helen Nuki, StepJockey founder, says: ‘We are delighted that StepJockey smart signs have received this innovation award. It's a recognition of the growing importance modern facilities management professionals place on creating active, healthy and sustainable buildings.' 

'We were absolutely delighted to win the award,' says Mark Bartlett, Managing Director, Signbox.

'The sign and graphic industry is a vibrant and forward-thinking community, and this was reflected in the quality of the work that was on show and commended at the event. We’re constantly striving to create innovative, eye-catching products and solutions that help transform our client's buildings. This recognition of the StepJockey product backs this up.'

Find out more about the StepJockey range of products and signs.

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Active design resources to create healthy and sustainable workplaces

October Must Reads 

Don't miss these three amazing resources on 'active design' and workplace wellness. Both documents are essential reading for all those involved in creating truly sustainable, productive and healthy working environments for their people. 

Health, wellbeing and productivity in offices

This report provides a high-level framework for building owners, occupiers and their advisors to start tracking the impacts of buildings on employee health, wellbeing and productivity in order to use that information in financial decision-making. 

Designing places for healthy living

A short guide to active design from The Design Council. The guide is essential reading for those involved in building design, workplace health, urban planning and public health. Great facts and resources to help create healthier lives by designing and managing places and buildings that encourage physical activity.

Everybody active everyday activation

This extensive Public Health England report outlines how businesses and organisation need to lead by example in implementing evidence-based interventions and infrastructure to promote physical activity in the workplace.

Find out more about how StepJockey can transform a working environment by increasing physical activity during the working day. 

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Deloitte focus on stair climbing to improve employee fitness during the working day

Stair climbing is set to become an important part of the working day at Deloitte as StepJockey is rolled out throughout their New Street Square and Athene Place buildings in London.

With all of the stairways, lobbies and lifts now marked for calorie burn, Deloitte staff are able to seamlessly build short bursts of physical activity into their working day.

Stair climbing is officially classed as a vigorous physical activity and burns more calories per minute than jogging so it is the perfect way for the team to improve their fitness levels during a normal busy working day.

Other benefits the team will gain from stair climbing include improved cardiovascular fitness, stronger musculoskeletal system, reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Helen Nuki, StepJockey founder, said: ‘Employees only need to build a little extra physical activity into their daily lives to make a significant difference to their health and fitness over time. By rolling out StepJockey across the Deloitte estate, the team are sending a clear signal to staff, clients and other stakeholders that they value a healthy working environment and take the wellbeing of their team seriously.’

As well as helping to improve health and wellbeing, StepJockey will also have direct and positive impact on the management of the Deloitte estate by naturally reducing demand on lift and escalator systems with reduced congestion and waiting times, improved way-finding and carbon savings. 

If you’re a forward-thinking organisation like Deloitte, you can find out more about the business benefits, download a brochure or contact the team on email to get a quote.

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Legal and General, one of Britain’s healthiest companies, installs StepJockey

Legal & General has become the first major financial services company to physically label its stairs for ‘calorie burn’ with StepJockey.

Legal & General is a company committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its employees making us especially proud they’re working so closely with StepJockey

In May 2013 it signed The Time to Change pledge to help raise awareness and end the stigma and discrimination associated with mental health and signed as a Responsibility Deal Partner supporting the Department of Health initiative as an organisation taking voluntary action to help employees lead healthier lives.

StepJockey has been rolled out in Legal and General’s London and Kingswood buildings, nudging teams in both buildings to take to the stairs. 

‘This is a disarmingly simple but powerful initiative that encourages exercise as well as reducing carbon emissions”, said Chief Executive Nigel Wilson at Legal & General. We strive to be one of Britain’s healthiest companies and with the launch of this initiative two of our buildings have now become two of the healthiest!’

Stair climbing is officially classed as a ‘vigorous’ exercise and burns seven times more calories than taking a lift. However, its benefits go beyond weight control and help reduce the risk of a range of conditions including heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. 

Elaine MacLean, Group Human Resources Director said: ‘We take the health of our staff very seriously and labelling the physical environment to incentivise exercise is an obvious and sustainable way forward. Traditionally, people see taking the stairs as a bit of a chore, but by highlighting the benefits, people are gently nudged into a more active routine which can bring profound health benefits over time.’

In February 2014 Legal & General achieved 19th  place in the Sunday Times ‘Best Big Companies to Work For’ Listing.

Want to join Legal and General and make your building healthier, find out more about our StepJockey signs and Wellness Account. 

Image: Thanks to Open Buildings

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StepJockey signs now available in French, Spanish, German and Arabic

Working closely with teams across the globe we've created StepJockey signs in French, Spanish, Arabic and German.

Helen Nuki, StepJockey founder says: ‘Organisations around the world have been asking for signs in other languages since we launched so it’s really exciting to be able to offer our first ranges of bi-lingual signs. We think they look great!’

If you would like more information about our bi-lingual signs contact the team.  

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KPMG becomes first building in Canary Wharf to be labelled for calorie burn

The stairs at KPMG’s Canada Square headquarters have become the first building in Canary Wharf to be labelled for calorie burn.

Working closely with our team, the stairwells have been given a complete makeover with StepJockey ratings for every stairway in the building encouraging staff to take to ditch the lift and take to the stairs. Using the StepJockey app, the KPMG team can now tap and track their stair climbs, set daily goals and seamlessly build stairclimbing into their daily fitness plans. 

Richard Reid, London Chairman at KPMG, who is backing the new initiative said: “For many city workers, finding the time to factor exercise into their working day is incredibly difficult, with most of us heading straight to the lifts and then to our desks for several hours. Inactivity is an increasing issue for the UK economy and the NHS  so it is important that we all do as much exercise as we can to reduce the risk of preventable illness and lead longer, healthier lives. Stair climbing is officially classed as a ‘vigorous exercise’ and burns more calories per minute than jogging and is a very simple way to build exercise into your working day.  I hope that as many of our staff as possible get involved.”

Helen Nuki, StepJockey founder, said: "We are delighted KPMG is pioneering StepJockey in Canary Wharf. As a large employer, KPMG understands the importance of corporate wellness  and like StepJockey, they see the world as gym and are labelling it as such. Through small steps, they are transforming the workplace for everyone."

In the first few days after installation, hundreds of staff downloaded the StepJockey app. Cumulatively teams at One Canada Square have tracked climbs equivalent to climbing up Everest over 18 times in just a few weeks.

If you’re an organisation that would love to get your building rated for calorie burn and start your teams climbing, you can find out more here.

Watch a video filmed on location at KMPG for France 2 programme ‘C’est au programme’, a wellness TV programme shown every morning on ‘France 2’ channel.

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Join our new stair climbing community and share your stories

To help  spread the word about how great stairs are for health and fitness we've launched a brand new StepJockey community.

It's an open forum where people can share their stories, ask questions, get advice and post tips.

Be a pioneer

It's early days so we're spending the first few weeks working on some 'pioneer' activity. 

If you would like to be a pioneer, we'd love to hear from you. Simply join the community and start sharing your stories. Everything from how you use stairs to keep healthy, how you got started and how you try to encourage others to have a go. We want to find out what a difference stair climbing has made to your life and also get some advice about how we can help people all over the world to start being a little bit more active. 

Let's take the first step together and make this a great community for everyone.

Join the community! 

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StepJockey opens US office

Following the successful launch of StepJockey in the UK, a new base in the United States has been opened in New York.

The American operation will be headed up by Johnny Adamic, who previously worked for the New York City Department of Health, Department of Education and served on former mayor Bloomberg's Obesity Task Force. 

Helen Nuki, founder of StepJockey, says: 'We are very excited to be starting out in America. Hundreds of buildings have been rated for calorie burn in the States and we have a number of large corporate clients there, so it's fantastic to start getting a team in place. 

'Johnny's experience working with the former Mayor Bloomberg's Obesity Task Force and health programs that create opportunities for physical activity in daily living, such as the 'Take the Stairs' campaign, make him the perfect choice to take StepJockey forward.'

Johnny Adamic says: 'It's an absolute pleasure to join StepJockey and take stair climbing to a new level. I have a lot of experience with this notion of creating opportunities for physical activity outside of the gym. I'm thrilled how StepJockey can better the health of Americans, one step at a time. A healthy American is a happy one."

American organisations interested in having the StepJockey initiative installed in their building can call +1 262.408.0976 or send an email.

We love to talk! 

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Workplace wellness ideas: Build physical activity into your working day and cut the risks associated with sedentary work

Our daily routines are increasingly spent sat at a screen. We shop, bank and even socialise online.

Many of us sit during our commute, during the day at our desks and when we wind down during the evening. There is increasing evidence to show this type of sedentary lifestyle is bad for your health.

Being physically inactive leads to weight gain, high blood pressure, high blood glucose levels and increases your risk of serious illness.

A recent study estimates about a third of adults are not physically active enough and this lack of exercise is responsible for 5.3 million deaths a year worldwide. This equates to about one in 10 deaths from diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and certain types of cancer (breast and colon).

People in higher income countries are the least active, with those in the UK among the worst. The study suggests up to two-thirds of adults in the UK are not doing enough.

It’s essential that you move more and sit less during your working day to reduce the risk of serious illness. It doesn’t mean you have to invest time and money on expensive gym memberships; you just need to be more active at work every day.

It's medically proven that people who do regular physical activity have:

• 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

You can exercise climbing stairs – it’s an ideal way to fit physical activity into your busy working day and promotes a healthy workplace. Taking the stairs rather than the lift and taking regular breaks to climb the stairs will help you lose weight and lower your risk of developing long-term health conditions. It will make you feel more energetic too.

You can find out more about the risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle, particularly for women here:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/01January/Pages/Women-who-spend-too-long-sitting-may-die-earlier.aspx

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Top French TV show visits London to see StepJockey in action

The StepJockey team recently spent two days with a great film crew from "France 2" filming ‘C’est au programme’, a wellness TV programme shown every morning on ‘France 2’ channel.

Leading health journalist and broadcaster, Christelle Ballestrero loved the StepJockey concept and wanted to come to London to see it in action and capture its positive impact on health. The report will be broadcasted in September.

The journalist interviewed StepJockey founder Helen Nuki and digital health entrepreneur Dr Matt Jameson-Evans about the rapid rise of StepJockey across the world.

The film crew visited KPMG’s London office where the StepJockey initiative has been recently installed.

Equipped with their phones, the film crew loved capturing the busy KPMG teams tracking their climbs via the StepJockey smart signs NFC and QR tags.

Christelle Ballestrero loved the footprints on the floor nudging employees to ditch the lift and take to the stairs.

Three employees from KPMG were interviewed and explained how easy it was to use the smartphone app to track their climbs and change their habits.

StepJockey will be available in French from Autumn 2014. Anyone who would like French StepJockey signs before should contact the StepJockey Team.