Friends & Family
The Push-Up Challenge is ideal for families and friends:
- Helps keep your crew healthy
- Great way to learn about mental health
- Keep your crew connected over distance
- With different targets and types of push-ups available, it's something for just above everyone
There are 3 steps to getting your crew involved:
Register
Register as a participant (you will then be the team captain).
Create a Team
Create a team (super easy to do once you have registered).
Invite people in your Team
Invite people to join your team (through sharing your team’s link via email, social media etc).
Some supporting information follows
Getting involved is very easy
- No cost and very easy to get involved
- Fosters a positive community environment where people encourage each other;
- Gives your people something new to be a part of
- Allows your people to learn about mental health
The Push-Up Challenge is a unique way to engage people in mental health
- Runs over 25 days in June (1st - 25th)
- 3,318 push-ups in total, representing the number of people who died by suicide in Australia in 2019
- Track your own and your team's progress online
- Get fit
- Learn about mental health
- Fundraise for mental health (optional, but a great chance to support critical mental health services across Australia)
Mental health tips are interwoven into the event
Advice
A different mental health tip is offered to participants every day.
Scientific background
These tips were practical and grounded in science.
Feedback
The feedback around these tips in 2020 was overwhelmingly positive.
Learn
98% of participants said they learnt something about mental health.
Each day, participants track their push-ups on our phone app or website
- See daily targets
- Enter ('bank') pushups
- See how others are going
- Learn about mental health
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From app stores (iPhone and Android)
We'll send you info on where to get the app as the event approaches
Last year people from various backgrounds were involved from all over Australia were
Leah Benoit
65yo, Hobart
Took pride in completing the event as part of her fitness group.
“It was a great challenge and I’m proud of my accomplishment”
Christy
35yo, Perth
Engaged over 50 of her colleagues to take part on an offshore oil platform 400km NW of Broome.
“The comradery this built was amazing. We’re already looking forward to next year”
Daryl
48yo, Maitland
Took part with over 20 people from his gym.
“Just awesome. Can't wait for the next event. We’re now looking for something similar before the next event!”
The event is setup so that there are communities, teams and individuals
Participants can take part as an individual or as part of a team, and perhaps also be part of a Community.
For teams, we recommend a team size of no more than 10 people.
A Community is a collection of teams. These are great for large workplaces, schools, gyms, unis or clubs where more than 10 people are expecting to take part.
To register interest, do so here.