Health & Fitness Awareness Days 2023

International health awareness days can be a fantastic marketing tool for your business. They usually receive global media coverage which you can leverage in your gym, fitness studio, or with coaching clients.

In this article – we share a list of upcoming health awareness days for 2023 you may want to mark in your calendar. Bookmark the page now to refer to all year round!

Whether you’re a personal trainer, nutritionist, or health club owner, wellbeing awareness days can help to spark interest in your services.

The key is to integrate them into your marketing campaigns, blog articles, and social media posts. If you know about them ahead of time, then you can use them to their full potential. So, we’ve scoured the internet for health promotion days and religious festivals that might be relevant to your business.

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Health Days in January

• 1st Jan – New Year’s Day
• 2nd Jan – Personal Trainer Awareness Day
• 22nd Jan – Chinese New Year
• Weight Loss Awareness Month
• Dry January (UK)
• Veganuary

You might also like… How to take full advantage of the January fitness rush.

February Health Awareness Days

Our Fitness Business Templates include a digital marketing planner that also functions as a world health days calendar for 2023…

March Dates

April Dates

Health Days in May

• 1st-7th May – Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week
• 15th-19th May – Walk to School Week
• 15th-21st May – World Salt Awareness Week
• 17th May – World Hypertension Day
• 21st May – World Meditation Day
• 29th May – World Digestive Health Day
• 31st May – National Senior Health & Fitness Day (USA)
• 31st May – World No Tobacco Day
• Better Sleep Month
• Physical Fitness & Sports Month
• National Walking Month (UK)

Health Days in June

• 5th-11th June – Bike Week
• 5th-11th June – National Growing for Wellbeing Week (UK)
• 12th-18th June – Diabetes Awareness Week
• 14th Jun – World Blood Donor Day
• 19th-25th Jun – National School Sport Week
• 21st Jun – International Yoga Day
• 6th-12th Jun – World Wellbeing Week
• Men’s Health Month

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July Health Awareness Days

• 2nd Jul – Thank You Day
• 3rd-9th Jul – Alcohol Awareness Week

August Awareness Days

• 4th Aug – Cycle to Work Day
• We aren’t aware of any other national days related to health during August but feel free to use the contact form if you have suggestions.

You Might Like ⇒ since July and August are traditionally quiet times for fitness businesses, you might like to run a summer promotion.

September Dates

• 13th Sep – Celiac Disease Awareness Day
• 15th Sep – Rosh Hashanah begins
• 16th Sep – National Dance Day (USA)
• 18th-24th Sep – World Reflexology Week 
• 18th-24th Sep – Balance Awareness Week
• 24th Sep – Yom Kippur begins
• 25th Sep – National Fitness Day (UK)
• 29th Sep – World Heart Day
• Organic September
• Vascular Disease Awareness Month

October Dates

• 1st Oct – World Vegetarian Day
• 2nd Oct – Child Health Day (USA)
• 2nd-6th Oct – National Work Life Week (UK)
• 10th Oct – World Mental Health Day
• 10th-16th Oct – Malnutrition Awareness Month
• 20th Oct – World Osteoporosis Day
• 29th Oct – World Stroke Day
• 31st Oct – Halloween
• Go Sober For October Month (UK)
• National Cholesterol Month

November Health Awareness Days

• 1st Nov – World Vegan Day
• 1st-7th Nov – Global Prebiotics Week
• 2nd Nov – Stress Awareness Day (UK)
• 4th-10th Nov – National Spa Week 
• 12th Nov – Diwali
• 19th Nov – International Men’s Day
• 23rd Nov – Thanksgiving (USA)
• Good Nutrition Month
• National Diabetes Month (USA & UK)

December Dates

• 1st Dec – Eat a Red Apple Day
• 25th Dec – Christmas
• 31st Dec – New Year’s Eve

So, there you have a round-up of all the global and national health awareness days for 2023. Integrate them into your marketing plans so that you can benefit from wide-spread media interest in them. With the might of global institutions like the United Nations and World Health Organisation behind many of them, you can be sure that they’ll gain attention.

This is why we include a world health calendar for 2023 in our social media kits. It includes key health awareness dates that are relevant to gyms, personal trainers, health coaches, nutritionists, and wellness professionals. 

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• 375 fitness-themed social media posts – including inspirational quotes, funny fitness content, interactive engagement ideas, educational posts, and trending awareness days.
• 40 Instagram reel and story video templates – that make it easy to share engaging health and fitness content (and drive repeated views) while promoting your workout classes, meal plans, or online programs.
• Social media strategy playbook – that outlines exactly how to create a strategy and the types of content you should post to drive awareness, engagement, and leads.
• Templates & calendars – to help you put your plan on paper and align content with your business objectives (as well as high-profile health and fitness awareness days).
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