{"id":19488,"date":"2020-09-08T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/alberta-blue-cross-shares-exercise-videos-tips-to-support-employee-fitness-149645"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:15:05","slug":"alberta-blue-cross-shares-exercise-videos-tips-to-support-employee-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/09\/08\/alberta-blue-cross-shares-exercise-videos-tips-to-support-employee-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Blue Cross shares exercise videos, tips to support employee fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/121835140_l-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Copyright: 123RF_citalliance\" title=\"Alberta Blue Cross shares exercise videos, tips to support employee fitness\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 8, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Alberta Blue Cross is sharing exercise videos and tips on social media to help its employees and all Albertans make&nbsp;fitness&nbsp;a part of&nbsp;their work-from-home lives.<\/p>\n<p>Before the pandemic, the benefits provider encouraged its employees to take 15-minute wellness breaks led by Terry Skidnuk, a workplace wellness specialist. With the majority of&nbsp;people now working from home,&nbsp;it\u2019s making the wellness breaks&nbsp;available online to all Albertans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/best-buy-canada-helping-staff-work-out-from-home-with-virtual-fitness-classes-148971\">Best Buy helping staff work out from home with virtual fitness classes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Skidnuk and other trained fitness instructors are creating at-home workout videos covering everything from yoga and meditation to core and strength workouts that are shared on Alberta Blue Cross\u2019 Facebook, Instagram Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese videos range from second-long exercise snacks to 45-minute workout sessions,\u201d the insurer said in a press release. \u201cWhat started as a way to continue these breaks for employees became a broader effort to get everyone watching moving \u2014 all in the name of wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/alberta-blue-cross-shares-exercise-videos-tips-to-support-employee-fitness-149645\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 8, 2020 Alberta Blue Cross is sharing exercise videos and tips on social media to help its employees and all Albertans make&nbsp;fitness&nbsp;a part of&nbsp;their work-from-home lives. Before the pandemic, the benefits provider encouraged&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}