Prudential Vitality

Health insurance that gives you points for doing exercise, getting checked out (health wise and fitness wise) and buying healthy food from Sainsbury's.

Also up to 50% selected Garmin and other fitness related gadgets. Some plans also give you 50% cashback (over the course of a year) of the first £1000 of a bike purchase (from Evans).

We've got it at work and I've finally got around to signing up for it. It's grabbed my history from Garmin Connect, and I've signed up for a free health check at a pharmacy (measurements, blood pressure, blood check for cholestorol/etc). Will also look at the free fitness assessment (at a Virgin Active gym).

Anyone else got it?

Cnuts at work have moved us off Vitality to Cigna, just as I'm about to renew at Platinum level.

Still got time to buy a Garmin for 50% off and then flog it straight away though...

The people who are really annoyed are the ones that were getting 50% off their gym membership through Vitality.

Perhaps your employer decided it was no longer worth it after getting wind that people were buying Garmins at 50% off only to then sell them on.

Have any Garmin HR straps going @Greenbank ?

Only the ancient classic versions, none of the new fangled ones spare.

Perhaps your employer decided it was no longer worth it after getting wind that people were buying Garmins at 50% off only to then sell them on.

Can only buy one device (Garmin, Polar or Fitbit) over the lifetime of the scheme, not sure it even costs the company anything extra if someone buys through this scheme. Maybe Prudential got screwed over and raised their prices to account for it.

It's not in my nature to take advantage of a deal like that, but I could have saved £120 on the Forerunner 920xt tri-bundle I bought elsewhere (still on a good deal) if I'd waited a month or two; no chance of me selling that on as I need it for my training.

Much bigger savings to be made with the gym membership deals (£500+ a year or so) but I don't need a gym membership.

Employer is just a skinflint (with $88bn in revenue last year) and changed to something cheaper. Annoying expensive 1st world employees eh.

On the plus side the yearly physio allowance has gone up from £500 to £2000.