Fitness Club Offering Veterans Free Membership Friday
November 9, 2016 at 6:38 p.m.
By David [email protected]
Workout Anytime is continuing its partnership with Lift For The 22 to help veterans battle depression and anxiety by providing them with free gym memberships.
Lift For The 22 is a veteran transitional support organization designed to decrease veteran suicides due to depression and anxiety felt after returning home, according to a news release from Workout Anytime.
Warsaw Workout Anytime personal trainer and manager Jason Spindler said Lift For The 22 tries to bring awareness to the fact that 22 veterans commit suicide each day and “give (veterans) an outlet through the fitness community” and a support group within the fitness community.
“So what they do is provide one-year gym memberships for any sort of veterans in our area, that way they can have a free place to go and work out,” Spindler said.
He said working out has been proven to help with depression. “It’s been one of the best ways to (address) depression.”
Alex Deeter, Warsaw Workout Anytime personal trainer and manager, said to apply for the one-year free membership, a veteran can go online at www.liftforthe22.org and apply. The website has the veteran fill out a questionnaire and provide some of their military information.
Veterans can apply anytime throughout the year and it will be approved within a few weeks.
“But one of the things we’re doing here this Veterans Day Friday is we’re giving them a 22-day free gym membership pass for any veteran that has an I.D. or form of former service. That way it kind of takes care of that three- to four-week timeframe to get approved and everything,” Spindler explained.
While the one-year membership is available online, the 22-day free pass is only available to local veterans on Friday who go to Workout Anytime at 2880 Frontage Road, Warsaw, in the strip mall that includes Carson’s and the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Deeter said.
Spindler said the free membership includes the basic membership – 24/7 gym access to all the equipment and locker rooms.
If a veteran already has a Workout Anytime membership but has not taken advantage of the one-year deal, Spindler said they can still take advantage of it and their membership will be transferred over.
Atlanta-based Workout Anytime is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week fitness concept with 100 gyms in the U.S.
Since Workout Anytime joined forces with Lift For The 22 last year, the partnership has helped more than 160 veterans suffering from transitional depression and anxiety by providing them with free fitness memberships, according to the news release. Workout Anytime has made more than $1 million in memberships available to support Lift For The 22.
“We really want to get more veterans in here, just more participation, so that they have more of a group to work out with,” Deeter said.
Spindler added that the Workout Anytime gym in Warsaw on Friday also will extend enrollment discounts to any first responders as well – police, fire, EMS. The discounts are about half off of enrollment on top of first month’s dues.
Deeter said Workout Anytime already has a good amount of veterans as members, but they haven’t done the Lift For The 22, so the gym wants to create more of an awareness of the program.
“Carter Davis, the founder of Lift For The 22, has created a necessary outlet to help our brave servicemen and women who give so much for our country get back on their feet,” Mark de Gorter, chief operating officer at Workout Anytime, said in the news release.
When Davis returned home from active duty in 2013, he suffered from depression as he lost his identity from his separation from the military. This eventually resulted in a divorce and thoughts of suicide, the release states.
Davis found that the local veteran’s services weren’t meeting his needs and found solace in pairing camaraderie with exercise.
“I want to provide veterans across the country with the same camaraderie we experienced in the military,” Davis said. “Being able to connect with other local vets who have shared experiences similar to your own is very healing. We’ve found that pairing this support with exercise has helped veterans across the country cope, and this partnership with Workout Anytime will allow us to greatly expand our reach. In fact, since the launch of the partnership last year, we’re proud to report that there have been zero incidents of anyone in their program committing suicide.”
Workout Anytime is continuing its partnership with Lift For The 22 to help veterans battle depression and anxiety by providing them with free gym memberships.
Lift For The 22 is a veteran transitional support organization designed to decrease veteran suicides due to depression and anxiety felt after returning home, according to a news release from Workout Anytime.
Warsaw Workout Anytime personal trainer and manager Jason Spindler said Lift For The 22 tries to bring awareness to the fact that 22 veterans commit suicide each day and “give (veterans) an outlet through the fitness community” and a support group within the fitness community.
“So what they do is provide one-year gym memberships for any sort of veterans in our area, that way they can have a free place to go and work out,” Spindler said.
He said working out has been proven to help with depression. “It’s been one of the best ways to (address) depression.”
Alex Deeter, Warsaw Workout Anytime personal trainer and manager, said to apply for the one-year free membership, a veteran can go online at www.liftforthe22.org and apply. The website has the veteran fill out a questionnaire and provide some of their military information.
Veterans can apply anytime throughout the year and it will be approved within a few weeks.
“But one of the things we’re doing here this Veterans Day Friday is we’re giving them a 22-day free gym membership pass for any veteran that has an I.D. or form of former service. That way it kind of takes care of that three- to four-week timeframe to get approved and everything,” Spindler explained.
While the one-year membership is available online, the 22-day free pass is only available to local veterans on Friday who go to Workout Anytime at 2880 Frontage Road, Warsaw, in the strip mall that includes Carson’s and the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Deeter said.
Spindler said the free membership includes the basic membership – 24/7 gym access to all the equipment and locker rooms.
If a veteran already has a Workout Anytime membership but has not taken advantage of the one-year deal, Spindler said they can still take advantage of it and their membership will be transferred over.
Atlanta-based Workout Anytime is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week fitness concept with 100 gyms in the U.S.
Since Workout Anytime joined forces with Lift For The 22 last year, the partnership has helped more than 160 veterans suffering from transitional depression and anxiety by providing them with free fitness memberships, according to the news release. Workout Anytime has made more than $1 million in memberships available to support Lift For The 22.
“We really want to get more veterans in here, just more participation, so that they have more of a group to work out with,” Deeter said.
Spindler added that the Workout Anytime gym in Warsaw on Friday also will extend enrollment discounts to any first responders as well – police, fire, EMS. The discounts are about half off of enrollment on top of first month’s dues.
Deeter said Workout Anytime already has a good amount of veterans as members, but they haven’t done the Lift For The 22, so the gym wants to create more of an awareness of the program.
“Carter Davis, the founder of Lift For The 22, has created a necessary outlet to help our brave servicemen and women who give so much for our country get back on their feet,” Mark de Gorter, chief operating officer at Workout Anytime, said in the news release.
When Davis returned home from active duty in 2013, he suffered from depression as he lost his identity from his separation from the military. This eventually resulted in a divorce and thoughts of suicide, the release states.
Davis found that the local veteran’s services weren’t meeting his needs and found solace in pairing camaraderie with exercise.
“I want to provide veterans across the country with the same camaraderie we experienced in the military,” Davis said. “Being able to connect with other local vets who have shared experiences similar to your own is very healing. We’ve found that pairing this support with exercise has helped veterans across the country cope, and this partnership with Workout Anytime will allow us to greatly expand our reach. In fact, since the launch of the partnership last year, we’re proud to report that there have been zero incidents of anyone in their program committing suicide.”
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