Main Wellness Works, LLC

Corporate Health Promotion and Personal Fitness Training

The benefits of worksite health promotion

According to studies, almost 75 percent of employee absences are stress related. Up to 90 percent of visits to health care professionals are stress related.

Main Wellness Works, LLC, offers dynamic, motivating, interactive programs that will inspire your employees take better care of their own health. Healthy employees are more productive. They use fewer health care dollars, are sick less often and perform better at their jobs. They are energized, focused, innovative and creative. Healthier employees will benefit your workplace.

Building and sustaining quality of life and work through behavioral health

Main Wellness Works provides research-based, engaging presentations to professional groups wanting to help create or sustain a culture of good health. Healthy employees drive healthy companies, and healthy businesses are more profitable.

Main Wellness Works workplace health promotion programs are motivating, fun and practical. Presentations blend the theoretical, philosophical and practical to be down-to-earth, user-friendly, and effective. Care is given to design presentations that inspire and empower the group to move beyond the "I'll think about it" stage into the "I am taking action" stage.

Main Wellness Works workplace health promotion programs are ideal for brown bag lunches, department or company-wide meetings, retreats and benefit fairs. Working with groups of all sizes, Main Wellness Works can inspire, motivate and build skills your employees can use immediately to improve quality of health and life.

Where do you want to take your corporate health?

Main Wellness Works can come to your facility for as little as an hour with presentations that inspire better health behaviors using realistic, lighthearted strategies to make good self-care more attainable and fun.

Energized, focused co-workers
Reduced sick time
Lower health care expenses
Increased productivity
Better recruitment and retention

Personal fitness training

Main Wellness Works offers specialized fitness programs work to achieve the results you want to see and feel! Private, semi-private and small group programs offered.

Weight loss
Strength training
Pilates
Sports conditioning
Cardiovascular fitness
Functional independence
Body Composition
Flexibility
Private, semi-private and small group work available click here for rates
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Testimonials

“This was the second time I've seen you present and you do an absolutely fantastic job.”

“Totally motivating and inspiring.”

“Helped us understand what we needed to do to reach our goals.”

“The ... program was perfect. It really was perfectly suited for our staff. This was exciting, interactive, and it offered GREAT advice.”

“I really enjoyed your positive personality, great visuals, and insights that can be applied to daily life. This will benefit me personally and professionally! ”

“Inspiring, energetic and motivating presentation. When can I come back for part two?”

“One of the most dynamic speakers I've heard.”

“She seemed to really understand the realities and challenges of quitting smoking. It's like she's been there with me.”

“I learned a lot of really practical stuff here that I can apply right now.”

“She was so REAL this was great! I am so motivated and psyched!”

"My running has gotten much stronger since working with Main Wellness Works on a weight lifting program."

“She showed me exercises that I had never seen before, and I feel much stronger!”

Main Wellness Works presentations are working for:

G.E. Healthcare
Shelburne Athletic Club
Vermont Department of Health
New England League of Post Masters
Vermont Managed Care
The Merchants Bank
New England Federal Credit Union
Key Bank
Natural Resource Conservation Service
Rhino Foods
Burlington Adventure Boot Camp
Northwest Board of Realtors
Stowe Mountain Corporation
Timber Lane Dental Group
Ben and Jerry's
Flynn Theater
Blue Cross/ Blue Shield of Vermont
University of Vermont
Coldwell Banker Hickok and Boardman
Vermont Department of Health
The Olympiad Health and Racket Club
The Brandon Training School
Vermont Department of Health statewide conferences.
Gardener s Supply
Community Church In Essex
City Hall, Burlington, VT
Colchester Senior Center
American Lung Association of New York
Rice High School
Vermont Department of Corrections
Trinity College, Burlington, VT
New England Culinary Institute
Landmark College, Putney, VT
Rock Point School, Burlington, VT
Eastern Tennessee State University
State University of New York, Geneseo
Villanova University
The University of Vermont
York College of Pennsylvania
Merrill Lynch
Champlain College
Bolton Valley Ski Patrol
Sugarbush Resort
Bolton Valley Ski School
Over 200 Vermont public schools

Invited speaker at National Conferences

American Heart Association in New Mexico
Environmental Protection Agency in Washington D.C. and Philadelphia
American Homebuilders Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Health and Human Services, Washington D.C.
American College Health Association in Las Vegas, Nevada
New England College Health Association in Portland, Maine
New England College Health Association in Burlington, Vermont

Programs and Workshops

Employees can learn to reduce health risks, and the benefit is significant personally and professionally. For those who are already in good health and have good health habits, health promotion programs reinforce good behaviors and prevent them from sliding into higher risk categories.

Main Wellness Works workplace wellness or health promotion programs can address stress, alcohol use, inactivity, weight, cholesterol, smoking nutrition, diabetes, seat belt use and more.

All presentations are customized for the client group, and "special requests" are invited.

Rates: (for groups of any size)
Single presentation: $250
Half day: $500
Full day: $800
Program consulting: $50/hour
Fitness classes or personal training: $45/hour

Ask about generous volume discounts and discounts for schools and non-profits.

Suggested Workshops:

Tailoring Your Fitness for Personalized Success
Management for Optimal Energy and Productivity
Healthy Eating and Weight Management
Exercise Motivation
Lecture-Free Guide to Quitting Smoking
Healthy Low Backs
Chronic Disease Management
Strategies for Successful Behavior Change
Living Life in Balance
Various Fitness Programs
Programs for Parents & Teens Regarding Sex & Drug Use
Meeting Facilitation

Background and Credentials

Heather Hewitt Main, M.Ed has worked in fitness and public health education since 1989.

Heather has spoken all over the nation and has presented to groups of all sizes.

Heather is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont and has a Master's Degree in Education with a concentration in health promotion, with additional post-graduate study in Sports Psychology, Exercise Physiology and Sports Nutrition.

Heather established Main Wellness Works in 2003 to deliver quality, affordable health promotion programs to workplaces and schools.

From 1989 to 1996, Heather was the Program Director for the American Lung Association of Vermont. She led tobacco use prevention and cessation programs and directed grant work on clean indoor air.

From 1996 to 2002, Heather led student health promotion at the University of Vermont and coordinated sexual violence prevention and survivor services. Heather also taught undergraduate courses in Health Education and Service Learning.

Heather has worked in Vermont health clubs and has the following certifications:

Certified as a Personal Fitness Trainer - Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
Certified as a Pilates' Instructor - Resist-A-Ball
Certified as a Pilates' Instructor - International Sports Conditioning Association
Certified Group Fitness Instructor -Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
Certified Zumba Instructor - Zumba Fitness