10,000 Steps Challenge – Get Up and Go Mildura!

1. Each participant must have an active 10,000 Steps account. Use an old account or register a new one on the official www.10000steps.org.au webpage.

2. Create a team in your early childhood service, school, workplace, community group or with friends and family. Teams can have a maximum of 20 team members.

3. Team captains to complete online registration form (NOTE: If you are entering the Individual Tournament, you will need to complete the form as a team captain only). Early childhood services, schools and higher education providers choose the education tournament. All other workplaces, choose the workplace/organisation tournament. Community groups, teams, friends and family teams choose the community tournament. If your team is all over 55 years old, you are welcome to choose the masters tournament. For individuals who would like a personal challenge, please choose the individual tournament.

4. Once you’ve completed the online registration form, await confirmation e-mail from the SCHS Health Promotion team to let you know that your team has been set up and is ready to go! Once your team is registered, choose how you will track your steps throughout the challenge.

5. For the duration of the challenge, record your steps and log online daily or by no later than 12pm Monday each week. Ladder updates will be e-mailed out weekly!

The 10,000 Steps app is now available on both the Apple and Google Play stores. It can make logging steps much easier!

Pedometers are available to loan for FREE from your local library.

Log steps daily via your official 10,000 steps account www.10000steps.org.au

Contact details: Health Promotion team – hp@schs.com.au P: (03) 5025 9003 – leave a message and we’ll get back to you!

Sounds like a lot, but when you see it takes 500 steps to walk from the car park to the supermarket you’re well on your way to hitting your goal. Reaching 10,000 steps every day will help you maintain a healthy lifestyle. Read 10,000 Steps articles to learn more.

Increasing your physical activity levels, through increasing your daily step count, is worthwhile; even if 10,000 steps is not the right goal for you. The most important thing is being as active as you can. Striving for 10,000 steps is just one way of doing this.

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Of course, some people accumulate less steps per day – for example, older people, those with chronic disease, and office workers. Others do a lot more: children, runners, and some blue-collar workers. So the 10,000 step goal is not suitable for everyone.

Setting a lower individual step goal is fine as long as you try to add about 3,000 to 4,000 steps to your day. This means you will have done your 30 minutes of activity.

Congratulations to all our winners!

Overall Tournament Winner

Charlie & His Angel, team captain Gabby Dean- Annual Golden Sneaker Trophy

Education Tournament
1^st Place – Trinity Trailblazers A – Trinity Lutheran College – Team Captain: Helen Watts – $200 Ziggy’s Café Voucher, 1 x Group PT Voucher with Collective Fitness and Yoga & an Exercise Prize Pack
Runner-up – Trinity Trailblazers B – Trinity Lutheran College – Team Captain: Beatrice Sue – $100 Subway Voucher, 10 x Sunraysia Tenpin Bowling Vouchers & an Exercise Prize Pack

Workplace Tournament
1^st Place – Lost in Pace – Mallee District Aboriginal Services – Team Captain: Sam Gledhill – $200 Banjo’s Voucher, 10 x Sunraysia Tenpin Bowling Vouchers & an Exercise Prize Pack
Runner-up – Ketamine Krew – Mildura Base Public Hospital – Intensive Care Unit – Team Captain: Isabella Inglis – $100 Subway Voucher, 10 x Sunraysia Tenpin Bowling Vouchers & an Exercise Prize Pack

Community Tournament
1^st Place – Charlie & His Angel – Team Captain: Gabby Dean – $200 Stefano’s Cafe Voucher, 1 Month Training with F45 Mildura & an Exercise Prize Pack
Runner-up – Power Rangers – Team Captain: Coreena Blair – $100 Subway Voucher, 10 x Sunraysia Tenpin Bowling Vouchers & an Exercise Prize Pack

Master’s Tournament
1^st Place – InVINCEable Seniors – Team Captain: Christine Rahmel – $200 Mr Bun Mi Voucher, 10 x Tenpin Bowling Vouchers & an Exercise Prize Pack
Runner-up – Golden Girls – Team Captain: Pat Thorburn – $100 Subway Voucher, Group PT Voucher with Fun and Fitness with Chris & an Exercise Prize Pack

Individual Tournament
1^st Place – BillyO – Anne O’Rouke – $100 Mildura City Heart Voucher & an Exercise Prize Pack
Runner-up – Ben Ezeabia – $100 Mildura City Heart Voucher & an Exercise Prize Pack

Most Improved Team– NuzNush – Community Tournament – Team Captain Nuzhatul Mannan – $100 Subway Voucher & an Exercise Prize Pack
Highest Individual Stepper – Grace Spataro – Ketamine Krew (Average total steps per day = 42,031 steps) – 3 Month Membership + Starter Pack to Fitness360, $100 Mildura City Heart Voucher & an Exercise Prize Pack
Most Improved Individual – BillyO – Anne O’Rourke – Individual Tournament – 3 Month Membership to Mildura Waves
Most Motivated Individual– Isabella Inglis – Ketamine Krew – Workplace Tournament – $100 Mildura City Heart Voucher & an Exercise Prize Pack
Most Motivated Team Captain– Christine Rahmel – InVINCEables – Masters Tournament – $100 Mildura City Heart Voucher & an Exercise Prize Pack
Social Media Gurus – The Flighties – Flight Centre – Workplace Tournament – Team Captain: Gabriella Garreffa – $100 Mildura City Heart Voucher, $100 Clove Voucher & an Exercise Prize Pack

Please see below for a full list of final results:

Community Tournament Ladder_FINAL

Masters Tournament Ladder_FINAL

Workplace Tournament ladder_FINAL

Education Tournament Ladder_FINAL

Individual Tournament Ladder_FINAL

Access 10,000 Steps Resources here for step trackers, posters and step conversion chart and more. Use these resources to help recruit and motivate team members.

Pedometers

SCHS have approximately 400 pedometers located at Mildura Regional Libraries: Mildura 200, Irymple 50, Merbein 50, Red Cliffs 50, Ouyen 25 and Murrayville 25.

Pedometer Instructions

Don’t want to wear a pedometer? Download one of the many free pedometer and physical activity trackers below:

Runtastic pedometer

Steps Pedometer and Step Counter Activity Tracker

Not a fan of running or walking? Don’t worry other physical activity is also counted in the challenge. You can simply record the number of minutes of additional moderate and/or vigorous exercise you do each day.

• Moderate Activity: Causes a slight, but noticeable increase in breathing and heart rate. You should be able to still maintain a conversation. Examples include cycling, swimming, weight training, active gardening and dancing.
• Vigorous Activity: Makes you ‘huff and puff’ and is where talking full sentences between breaths is difficult. Examples include high intensity circuit training, running, sprints, netball/football/soccer (midfield) and other competitive sports.

Alternatively, check out this step conversion table to determine the activity’s equivalent number of steps.

Click here for the official 10000 Steps Conversion Chart

If your activity is not listed, find the one(s) most similar to it and estimate the activity’s step value.