It’s time to put your health first.
Exercise is one of the most important activities you can do to take charge of your health. Regular exercise can help you manage your weight, reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, certain cancers, and strengthen your bones and muscles. It doesn’t just increase your chances of living longer; it improves your quality of life too. It improves mental health and gives you the strength and energy needed to do everyday activities. For older adults, it improves physical function and decreases risk of injury from falling. No matter your health, physical ability, age, or background, fitness improves your quality of life. Fitness is Essential.
Exercise robustly improves heart health, and can reduce the risk of heart attack, heart failure, high blood pressure, and stroke.
Anxiety, depression, and negative mood all respond to regular exercise.
Regular exercise boosts your immune system, strengthening your body's ability to defend against infectious diseases.
Exercise improves sleep quality and makes it easier to fall asleep more quickly.
Exercise, especially weight-bearing and resistance exercise, induces an increase in bone mass and density in young people. In older people, it helps maintain bone strength.
Exercise improves oxygen circulation throughout your body and boosts your endurance.
The Community Gyms Coalition (CGC) is a first-of-its kind collaboration of fitness companies representing more than 15,000 community gyms and fitness facilities across the U.S. that serve over 25 million members and impact tens of millions more across the country. Data shows that during the COVID pandemic, physical activity diminished and negative public health outcomes rose. America’s community gyms are committed to addressing this troubling outcome by integrating nutrition and health and supporting improved physical activity for all.
In collaboration with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, the CGC affirms its core mission of supporting physical activity and fitness for all by launching a campaign to help Americans understand that Fitness is Essential for mental and physical health. The benefits of physical activity and fitness are too abundant to ignore: Fitness is Essential.
Join more than 15,000 gyms, tens of thousands of coaches and trainers, and millions of gym members across the country to support the Fitness is Essential campaign.
