Anxiety Movement

The tidal wave of mental health awareness is in its infancy.

The crippling effects of anxiety can make it feel like you are drowning under the weight of the world.

Chronic symptoms make it easy to reach for pharmaceuticals, therapy, or psychedelics.

We know there is no one size fits all approach to mental health.

Emerging literature is finding that exercise is critical for improving anxiety symptoms.

Why?

Exercise does more than change your body, it changes your mind and soul.

• Less than 5% of adults take part in 30 minutes of physical activity per day.

• 80% of them do not meet the weekly guidelines for physical activity

The latter statistic represents adolescence and youth as well.

Yet, 77% percent of the US population reports high stress on a weekly basis.

19.1% of people have anxiety levels high enough for a clinical diagnosis.

Exercise provides an outlet to express suppressed energies.

The positive release of this energy has benefits far beyond a single email.

Science has spoken and the results are in:

1. Exercise outperformed counseling for the treatment of emotional well-being across a 16-Week program.
2. Aerobic exercise lowers anxiety in people who have clinical anxiety.
3. High-Intensity exercise and resistance training lowers anxiety even greater than aerobic exercise.
4. Exercise is on par with therapy but not as well as exercise and drug treatment.

Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everybody.

In no way are we suggesting that we know the path to mental health for everyone.

We have a strong, and biased belief, that exercise is key to peace of mind.

Movement is medicine.

Although stress and anxiety are real, physical activity gives you a fighting chance.

Self-care is not self-indulgent, it's self-preservation.