Firms to reap from fitness fad
Companies supplying gym equipment and trainers will be looking to reap from the increasingly health concious Kenyan. FILE PHOTO | NMG
What you need to know:
- A number of government departments are now looking for gym equipment to be installed in offices where its top officials will exercise, receive professional advice on how to regularly keep fit, eat healthy diet and undergo frequent medical checks.
- On line to reap from this are instructors and suppliers of equipment used to burn away the extra fat around tummies. Not to be left behind are county government, which are borrowing a leaf with the aim of nurturing a national culture of exercising for good health.
- A lone and dull but conspicuous ad posted in last week’s mygov.go.ke weekly reviews said the Treasury had identified its 13th floor as home to a soon-to-be established gym that will be equipped and run by a well-established operator.
Known for their grandiose lifestyles, binge eating and drinking atop their oft-chauffeured lives, senior government officials could in future ‘epitomise’ fitness.
A number of government departments are now looking for gym equipment to be installed in offices where its top officials will exercise, receive professional advice on how to regularly keep fit, eat healthy diet and undergo frequent medical checks.
On line to reap from this are instructors and suppliers of equipment used to burn away the extra fat around tummies. Not to be left behind are county government, which are borrowing a leaf with the aim of nurturing a national culture of exercising for good health.
A lone and dull but conspicuous ad posted in last week’s mygov.go.ke weekly reviews said the Treasury had identified its 13th floor as home to a soon-to-be established gym that will be equipped and run by a well-established operator.
“The National Treasury intends to procure a service provider for the management of the ministerial gym/health facility at the 13th floor of Bima House (Treasury Annex), Nairobi, it said.
The Expression of Interest (EOI) notice invited individuals and firms with proven technical and financial capabilities to place bids by April 11 to the Treasury Principal Secretary Kamau Thugge where a successful firm will be shortlisted.
Interestingly, a new fitness gym has been opened on the 7th floor of Commission House by Public Service Commission (PSC) Vice Chairman Ambassador Peter ole Nkuraiyia who said the government was not only keen to have hardworking, but healthy staff.
PSC chief executive Alice Otwala urged staff to use the gym as there were many health benefits to be derived from exercising.
She said training comes with “physical fitness, weight loss, improved productivity, increased happiness, lower healthcare cost, sense of accomplishment, less stress and healthier habits.”
According to the 2017 Economic Review, Kenyans’ obsession with sedentary lifestyles and poor eating habits could have caused 15,762 deaths, largely contributed to the 21,295 lives lost to TB especially smoking and 5,353 deaths linked to heart ailments.
The National Intelligence Service has also placed a tender seeking gym equipment suppliers and operators to send in bids by April 12.
