wHO WE ARE

Happy Harder comes from a lived understanding:
that working the body can make life feel better.

It is not about how you look in the mirror.
It is about feeling strong, capable, and proud of yourself.

Through physical training, I learned that happiness is not something you think your way into.
It is something you build by doing hard things, consistently.

The best things in life are rarely easy to come by.
That effort is part of what makes them meaningful.

There is good science behind movement.
More energy. More strength. Better memory and focus. Long-term brain health.

Those benefits matter.
But they are not why Happy Harder exists.

Happy Harder is about mental health through physical action.
Moving your body is one of the fastest ways to feel better and steadier.

Before chemistry and explanations, there is something simpler:
when you move with purpose, life feels lighter.

To wear Happy Harder is to stand for that idea.
That effort matters.
That action helps.
That doing hard things can make you happier.

HAPPY HARDER

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

- Plato

 It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.- Socrates 

  Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. - Jim Rohn

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. - Nido Qubein

  Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. - John F. Kennedy

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.  -  Sir William Francis Butler 

Exercise is really for the brain, not the body. It affects mood, vitality, alertness and feelings of well-being. - John J. Ratey, MD

We have a brain because we have a motor system that allows us to move away from danger and towards opportunity. - Robert Sylvester

So you need a good answer for both of those to have a strong sense of meaning in life - John Vervaeke