Anytime Fitness Partners with the Movemeant Foundation to Make a Difference
ICYMI: Last week, we introduced our new and thrilling partnership with the Movemeant Foundation—a non-profit group that strives to coach and empower younger girls via the usage of bodily health to construct confidence, self-worth, and self-love. How wonderful, proper?
And identical to us, the Movemeant Foundation is rooted within the perception that eachphysique is supposed to maneuver, and that the important thing to residing a wholesome and glad life—bodily, emotionally, and mentally—is bodily motion. But we wished to know extra, so we spoke with Stacy Anderson, President of Anytime Fitness, and Jenny Gaither, Founder of the Movemeant Foundation, to study extra in regards to the partnership and what it means to each of them. Here’s what they needed to say!
Q: Jenny, in your individual phrases, what’s the essence of the Movemeant Foundation?
A: The Movemeant Foundation makes use of motion and neighborhood to assist girls uncover their energy, develop of their self-worth, and thrive of their confidence. We imagine that motion is the car for which we are able to entry essentially the most highly effective model of ourselves, and that our neighborhood has the flexibility to point out us what we are able to do with that energy.
Q: What referred to as you [Jenny] to the Movemeant Foundation mission?
A: It was after I obtained my first pair of ballet footwear that I realized the significance of being energetic, and its contribution to creating the world a greater place. But as I received older, I spent extra time evaluating my picture, path, and timing to different girls. For 15 years, I struggled with an consuming dysfunction, physique picture points, and despair—a secret that nobody knew. And it wasn’t till I select to simply accept who I used to be unconditionally—even when nobody else did—that my attachment to my picture, perfectionism, and validation was shattered. I made a decision to not disguise in my disgrace, however to talk out about myself and different girls who struggled with self-confidence and physique picture points identical to me. That’s the second after I realized I used to be limitless, and so I believed: if I’m limitless, so is everybody else, and that’s the message I used to be born to share with the world.
Q: What about you, Stacy? Have you all the time had a ardour for health and wellness?
A: Fitness has all the time been an necessary a part of my life. I grew up in an energetic dwelling that spent plenty of time outside and on the water, so health was by no means one thing that we had to consider or find time for, it was simply how we lived. But after I started having youngsters in my early thirties, issues modified. It was the primary time in my life that I needed to consciously work at making time for health, my well being, and self-care—and I believe lots of people can relate to that proper now. We’re within the midst of a time the place the well being and wellness of our communities is extra necessary than it’s ever been or ever wanted to be, and currently that’s what has been inspiring me every day.
Q: Is that what impressed you [Stacy] to accomplice with the Movemeant Foundation?
A: This yr has been powerful. Our communities have already given up a lot: their freedom, their private lives, their households—and all for the well being of others. So we’re working to guarantee that they don’t even have to surrender their love of health and talent to maneuver as effectively. It’s instances like these that lending a hand and giving again to these communities is so necessary. So once we noticed that the mission of the Movemeant Foundation was nearly precisely aligned with ours—elevating the conceit and confidence of girls and ladies via bodily health—we simply knew it was the proper match. The Movemeant Foundation has carried out a tremendous job of serving as a catalyst to empower a brand new era of wholesome, sturdy, and confident younger girls, and we couldn’t be extra proud to accomplice with them and assist develop their efforts and rework the lives of the following era of girls.
Q: For you, Jenny, what makes Anytime Fitness such an impactful accomplice for the Movemeant Foundation?
A: One of the most important challenges that stands in the way in which of girls proudly owning their wellness is approachability and accessibility to the instruments they should be energetic—and Anytime Fitness helps change that via their inclusive, supportive, and welcoming areas for all our bodies to be courageous and develop a constructive sense-of-self via health. With their help, we will proceed to grant our Meant to Move athletic scholarships to under-resourced communities around the globe in order that ladies can proceed to make use of motion as an outlet to really feel empowered.
Q: Stacy, what’s the greatest problem you see that forestalls girls from proudly owning their health and wellness? How will the Movemeant Foundation assist Anytime Fitness break down these limitations?
A: As a lot as conventional gender roles have developed via the years, girls are nonetheless bombarded with messages of inadequacy and pictures of unrealistic perfectionism every day. From a younger age, girls are taught to concentrate on what they’re not, as a substitute of celebrating all the unimaginable issues that they are. The Movemeant Foundation does a beautiful job at educating, mentoring, and offering the instruments that younger girls must develop sturdy, wholesome, and glad our bodies. So collectively, we are going to work to make a distinction in these younger ladies lives and obtain our mission of elevating the conceit of the world, one individual at a time.
Q: Jenny, we’ll finish with a troublesome query: What has been essentially the most rewarding final result from the Movemeant Foundation in your opinion?
A: We do what we do on the Movemeant Foundation as a result of we love folks, and we love empowering them. We have by no means forgotten the grins and dedication from our annual outside charity occasion, We Dare to Bare. Our hearts develop ten sizes each time we learn testimonials and letters from the mother and father of the ladies who’ve obtained our Meant to Move athletic scholarships, or those that have graduated from our Generation Confident center faculty program. We are so pleased with our Wellness for All grants which have amplified the voices of the BIPOC feminine enterprise homeowners within the health business, and we’ve additionally been in a position to supply our COVID-19 Relief grant to tons of of different health enterprise homeowners which have been tragically impacted by COVID-19. So as of this far, we’ve been in a position to make a considerable impression around the globe, not solely as a result of we imagine in our mission, however as a result of different folks do, too.
