Exercise | Heartful Healings

About

One of the behavioral risk factors of CVDs is physical inactivity. Low-income communities have higher levels of physical inactivity and thus higher risks of heart disease. There are many barriers to physical activity, such as affordability, lack of support, time-constraints, etc. These all drive physical inactivity, evident by the fact that low-income individuals have lower levels of physical activity compared to high-income individuals.
Heartful Healings' Exercise program aims to combat this by encouraging physical activity in low-income communities. We do so by providing exercise equipment and events.

What we offer

Exercise equipment

Research has shown that many low-income individuals are physically inactive because they are not able to afford gym memberships or equipment to work out. We therefore aim to combat this barrier by donating exercise equipment so that people do not have to worry about financing them.

Events

Research has shown that many low-income individuals do not workout because they do not have the support system to do so, or there are a lack of resources that meet their needs (such as workout classes that fit a busy work schedule). Thus, we provide workout workshops where we either teach classes or simply have people workout together to create a welcoming community that people feel comfortable in and that their needs are met.

Research

If you are interested in seeing the statistics and our research on the intersection of exercise and CVDs in underserved communities, click below ♡