The 30-day Push-Up Challenge will launch tomorrow, Saturday, April 1.
Rise Above Violence, for the 10th year, is hosting the Push-Up Challenge during April. Over the last two years, the challenge has taken on a new life as a 30-day challenge that people can do on their own time, from wherever they are. Registration for the event is $25, which covers your shirt and access to the tracking app to count all of the push-ups you complete. For anyone who would like to help fundraise, to support victims and survivors in our community, we have a great platform that you can utilize to share out with friends and family.
You can register and find more information on the Rise website, www.riseaboveviolence.org/push-up-challenge.
Our goal this year is for our community to complete 38,130 total push-ups in the month of April.
Why 38,130? Every 68 seconds someone is sexually assaulted in the United States, which equals 1,271 every day… so 38,130 represents the number of victims during the 30 days of April. According to statistics, “Females ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.”
You can be part of the solution. Awareness plus actions equals social change. We can be the change that move this number, that make it smaller. As a participant you can commit to any number of push-ups you can complete each day or follow one of our plans to build up your strength. We have created a beginner, intermediate and advanced month-long challenge that will push you to increase your level of fitness.
Through the challenge, we are hoping to raise $15,000 that will go directly toward supporting victims of sexual assault in our community with resources and support to help with their healing.
The April 1 launch party will be held at CrossFit Pagosa at 10:30am, where you can get registered, learn how to use the fundraising platform and the app, and have a coach check your form to ensure a successful month of push-ups. We will also have a push-up challenge blitz — as many people as possible will come together to complete as many push-ups as possible in 30 minutes. We have a sponsor that will be supporting the challenge with $1 for every toe push-up completed. This will be a great way to kick start the fundraising.
Join us for the month of April to support victims and survivors in our community. Challenge someone to do the Push-Up Challenge with you as a team or compete with someone to keep you motivated. If we have 32 challengers who do 40 push-ups per day, we will hit the goal of 38,130.