Fun learning experiences are the key to improving health and wellbeing.

With its fun-approach, Fun and Fit Bike provides truly unique learning experiences to improve the health and wellbeing of people of all ages and abilities.

Using a custom-built exercise bike that delivers a host of pedal-powered activities - most notably the making of fresh fruit juices, smoothies and shakes in the bike’s food blender attachment - children, teenagers, and adults can be educated on the importance of health and wellbeing. And since it's done in a fun way, it has a greater impact.

ekme launched the Fun and Fit Bike project in 2018 and has now delivered health and wellbeing learning programmes in a number of schools, colleges and workplaces.

Check out some photos and videos of the bike in action at this Google photo gallery https://photos.app.goo.gl/QUwKAN792LaH2uqA7

If you are a teacher, trainer or leader of an organisation, you can use Fun and Fit Bike to educate your colleagues, clients, volunteers, and communities on the importance of a healthier lifestyle while having great fun.

Young and old can make pedal-powered healthy drinks, undertake Tour-de-France style performance trials, learn about renewable energy by building and illuminating lightboxes and charging mobile phones, and experiencing Virtual Reality cycle rides on the world’s best bike trails.

People with disabilities can enjoy the experience too and a programme for dementia patients to enjoy a safe Virtual Reality cycle ride in the streets around their home has recently been developed.

A fun approach can most definitely deliver measurable improvement in stakeholder awareness, attitude and behaviour to health and wellbeing. A simple pre and post-learning experience survey that is undertaken with stakeholders normally evidences it - something that many organisations value highly.

Recently, the Fun and Fit Bike programme was further enhanced to give stakeholders the opportunity to assess their health and wellbeing in more depth and create an improvement action plan through self-measurement and comparison of their Body Mass Index (BMI), Blood Pressure (BP), Hydration, Weight and Waist, and mental health against NHS recommended indices. This has proved popular with organisations for ensuring staff health and wellbeing. A synopsis of the enhanced programme can be viewed here.

Taking a fun approach to imparting key messages around health and wellbeing can deliver tangible benefits to both the organisation and the person. The benefits can be measured too using a simple pre and post-learning experience survey that is undertaken with stakeholders - something that many organisations value highly.

Indeed, The 2019 Global Happiness and Well-Being Policy Report, produced by the Global Happiness Council (GHC) reports a positive correlation between employee well-being and productivity. There is also a growing evidence base of this being a causal effect, with recent experimental evidence suggesting that ameaningful increase in well-being yields, on average, an increase in productivity of about 10%.

When planning your stakeholder health and wellbeing strategy, think of all the times you have undertaken a fun activity and how memorable it proved to be.