How One Charity Uses Working Out to Benefit Our Veterans

Mental health can be one of the biggest obstacles in someone’s life. Alex Wisch was one of these people. Throughout his life Wisch struggled with major depression. Luckily, Wisch found that physical fitness, eating better, and leading a healthier lifestyle helped him overcome depression. He is now a Peak Performance coach and the founder of Wisch Fit, a charity that supports Mental Health Awareness Month and our nations veterans.

Founding Wisch Fit was not an easy task. Throughout his life Alex Wisch faced many challenges and setbacks that eventually allowed him to become the best version of himself and found Wisch Fit. After pushing himself and burning out in college, Wisch dealt with major depression, severe ADHD, anxiety and multiple other conditions. Unhappy and longing for better days, Wisch decided he needed to look inside himself to break free. He started doing fitness, better nutrition, meditation, finding a community, cutting out chemical medication, and having a consistent sleep schedule. When practicing all of these things, slowly Wisch began to feel better and gain his confidence back. While he still battles depression, it is manageable through his healthy life efforts as well as helping others with their battles.

Wisch decided to create Wisch Fit due to his passion and purpose in helping others, so nobody has to fight alone. Through Wisch Fit, he helps other people overcome barriers in mental and physical growth and recognize that no goal is too big or can’t be achieved. Anything can be reached with the right support, people, and tools.

With that idea in mind Wisch came up with a challenge to push others to better themselves and have a healthy mind and body. Along with that challenge, Alex himself completed a challenge of 1,000 pull-ups, 2,000 push-ups, and 3,000 squats within 10 hours in order to raise awareness for mental health and raise money for Team Red, White, & Blue. They are a charity committed towards helping veterans with mental health and physical health by utilizing fitness and community. Every year more than 250,000 transition out of the military and are faced with mental health battles that many go through alone. Wisch Fit and Team Red, White, & Blue work to raise money for veterans and help them live healthy and happy lives outside of the military.