By the Numbers
Everybody wants good health—whether that refers to one’s business or one’s body. Here’s the fitness of business and the business of fitness by the numbers:
20
Minutes it would take to burn five calories by squeezing a stress ball
400
Mileage at which the typical running shoes should be replaced
2
Dollars in billions made each year from the sale of Halloween candy, more than any other holiday in the year
10,000
Square footage of Well at Dell Fitness Center, the employees’ gym at Dell’s Round Rock, Texas, campus
344
U.S. health care dollars in billions expected to be spent by 2018 due to rising rates of obesity, a 119 percent increase in just over a decade
820
Average calories burned per day by an employee who works a desk job
56
Billions of dollars given to businesses by the U.S. government to aid in providing health care for employees
28
Years spent by Finnish researchers studying a group of 800 workers; the study determined that there can be negative long term cardiovascular implications from not taking breaks throughout the workday
42
Average age of office workers in America
5,000
Number of U.S. employers who currently offer company gyms
55
Millions of dollars in annual income for celebrity fitness guru Jillian Michaels
50.2
Millions of people with a U.S. health club membership as of 2010
80
Percent of gym memberships that go unused except for the first days of a new year
9
Billions of dollars in revenue earned by Whole Foods Market in 2011
121
Height in feet of America’s tallest indoor rock wall, found at Stonework Silos in Carrolton, Texas
2
Millions of pairs of Reebok’s Zigtech shoes sold in 2010
3
Number of copies in millions of the P90X workout program sold since 2009
1,100
Average price in dollars of a stand-up paddleboard and paddle
15,000
Cost in dollars of the world’s most expensive bicycle
30
Percentage of yoga practitioners with an annual household income of more than $85,000
75,000
The mean cost in dollars to train for and then climb Mount Everest
2.07
Billions of dollars in total revenue for GNC, retailer of health and wellness products, in 2011
90
Reported worth in millions of dollars of women’s Olympic All-Around gymnastics champion Gabrielle Douglas’ endorsement contract with Kellogg’s cereal
250,000
Average cost of a heart attack in dollars
Sources:
https://www.factretriever.com/
http://www.examiner.com/article/why-your-company-should-have-an-on-site-gym;
http://www.fitnessblender.com/v/article-detail/Calories-Burned-by-Occupation-How-Many-Calories-Does-My-Job-Burn/bj/;
http://healthreform.kff.org/federal-funds-tracker.aspx;
http://www.sitbetter.com/blog/office-chairs/7-reasons-why-it-is-important-to-take-breaks-at-work;
http://www.astm.org/studentmember/images/2010SaintLouisUniversity.pdf;
http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-calories-does-squeezing-a-stress-ball-burn;
http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/09/leadership-health-jobs-lead-careers-cx_tw_0109bizbasics.html;
http://www.therichest.org/business/celebrity-entrepreneurs-2011/;
http://www.ihrsa.org/media-center/2011/4/5/us-health-club-membership-exceeds-50-million-up-108-industry.html; http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011/snapshots/10572.html;
http://adage.com/article/news/reebok-boosts-spending-easytone-zigtech/149293/;
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/business/29exercise.html?pagewanted=all;
http://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/paddleboarding.html;
http://worldsexpensivethings.com/10-worlds-most-expensive-bicycles-2012;
http://www.namasta.com/pressresources.php;
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/05/22/f-mount-everest-cost.html;
http://running.about.com/od/shoesapparelandgear/f/replaceshoes.htm;
http://retailsails.com/monthly-sales-summary/gnc/;
http://www.breadoverbed.com/word-on-the-street/sports-gabby-douglas-inks-90-million-endorsement-deal.html;
http://fitnessofwealth.com/how-much-does-p90x-cos
