You might think only athletes would commit to doing thousands of push-ups over a few weeks. But hundreds of thousands of Australians, aged from five to 105, have done just that.
Until this year, just 2 per cent of the Push-Up Challenge’s participants were overseas, mostly in the UK and Antarctica. But 50,000 people in Canada have taken part this year. “Our employees, our fans and participants, they can see us grow and see the impact we have – that’s so exciting,” Hudson says.
Participants will be asked to do 3429 push-ups each over 24 days this year. The target represents the number of Australians who took their own life in the last recorded year , an awful average of nine a day. The push-up target changes daily, reflecting various mental health statistics, but the average is 135. The mental health facts on the app cover everything from connection with others, alcohol consumption, spending time outside, screen time, and sleep.
Hudson says the event is focused on the idea of mental fitness. “Let’s be honest, there are lots of tragedies in life ... so how do we prepare for that?” he says. “We all have our moments. One in five Australians suffer from mental illness every year. So part of our role, as we see it, is helping people mentally prepare for those moments.
The engineer in Hudson wants to work out how many participants continue to exercise, and how to increase that percentage each year.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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