For companies
THE WHOLE
COMPANY
ON ONE PITCH
Gatiप्रवाह
Nine hours at a desk, almost none of it moving. We run sports mornings on your own ground, and the point of the morning is what people are still doing on the Tuesday after it: a few minutes of movement every day, in work clothes, without booking anything.
A morning, in plan
ONE PITCH, SIX THINGS AT ONCE
Zero
Knockouts
60 min
On the field, each person
One pitch
Your ground. Nothing gets built
The format decision
NOBODY IS KNOCKED OUT
A knockout bracket
Half the company is watching by half ten
Round one
Round two
Round three
Final
Every round sends people to the side of the pitch and leaves them there.
What we run instead
Everyone is still on the field at the end
Block one
Block two
Block three
Block four
Zones run at once, teams rotate through all of them, nobody is eliminated from anything.
The part that goes home with them
A FEW MINUTES, EVERY DAY, AT THE DESK
A morning is a morning. What changes a desk job is the Tuesday after it, so the set below is built to be done badly, in shoes, between two meetings, by somebody who is not sporty and never will be.
A desk day now
The same day, with the set
- 09:20 · 5 min
- Walk in from a stop further out
- 11:00 · 2 min
- Desk reset
- 13:30 · 12 min
- After lunch, easy walking
- 15:30 · 10 min
- The floor slot
- 16:45 · 2 min
- Desk reset
31 minutes added to a nine hour shift. None of it needs a gym, a change of clothes or a booking.
Games
Weekly, scored, social
- Stair ladder. Teams bank flights against the height of a named building.
- The hundred step swap. Pairs walk a token desk to desk, across departments.
- Sit to stand. Thirty seconds, counted, retested every month.
- Reset roulette. A card at the coffee point. Whoever draws it, the table does it.
Sessions
Daily, in work clothes
- The six minute desk reset. Mobility, loaded movement, breathing.
- The floor slot. Ten minutes, one room, drop in, joinable at any minute.
- Walking meetings. A recurring meeting converted, so no calendar time is added.
- After lunch twelve. Twelve easy minutes at the worst slump of the day.
Plans
How it survives week three
- Week one, measure. Sit to stand count, sitting hours, one pain rating.
- One anchor a week. Movement attached to coffee, standup or lunch, never five at once.
- A trained champion inside the company, so the habit holds without us in the room.
- Re measure at twelve weeks. The same three numbers, nothing new to fill in.
2020
WHO dropped the rule that activity had to come in bouts of ten minutes or more. Short movement counts toward the weekly total.
2 min
A day of specific loaded movement cut neck and shoulder pain in office workers about as much as twelve minutes did.
66 days
Median time for a new action to become automatic, which is why this runs as a season instead of a workshop.
WHO Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour (2020). Andersen and colleagues, Pain (2011), randomised trial of two against twelve minutes a day. Lally and colleagues, European Journal of Social Psychology (2010).
What the company gets
PAST A NICE MORNING OUT
1 in 3
A dose, not a day out
Adults worldwide fall short of the WHO minimum of 150 minutes a week. Desk-based and thirty to fifty is the middle of that group, not its edge.
515
People meet across the silo
Studies on intergroup contact agree on the conditions: equal status, a shared goal, cooperation over competition. Teams are split by department at the gate.
48 hrs
One page, not a photo gallery
To an aggregate read on who took part, how the room mixed and how people felt on arrival against the close. Nobody named, scored or ranked.
What none of that shows is a changed company three months later. One morning is a dose, and its size is worth knowing up front.
WHO Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour (2020), and the global inactivity estimate in The Lancet Global Health (2024). Pettigrew and Tropp (2006), meta-analysis of 515 intergroup contact studies.
Who runs it
ONE PERSON, ON THE FIELD ALL MORNING
Parthav Kalra. The research is on social anxiety and inclusion in team sport, which is why the morning is designed around who opts out.
MSc
Health and Physical Activity Investigations, UCAM, Spain
BSc
Sport Sciences, honorary distinction in sports pedagogy
150+
Participants, municipal youth programme, Ayuntamiento de Fortuna
5 to 6
Structured sessions a day, groups of 35 to 45
2022
Coaching and residential camps in Spain, since
CPR
And first aid certified, on site for every session
If this is for your company
Send a headcount, a morning, and one person who can approve it.
hello@gatiprvah.in