Healthy Body, Healthy Mind - 10 visits in October!

As our world continues to evolve we need to ensure that we maintain a high level of physical and mental health.

Monash Sport as part of Mental Health week would like to assist all members to ensure they are looking after their physical and mental health by challenging them to complete 10 sessions of physical exercise during the month of October.

Members that complete the challenge will go in the draw to win great prizes!

What you need to do to participate

1. Collect a 'Healthy Body, Healthy Mind' card from a Monash Sport Service Desk or take one from the 'smiley face' at a Monash Sport facility

2. Each time you visit you will need to get your 'Healthy Body, Healthy Mind' card marked

3. Once you have completed 10 visits, go to a Monash Sport Service Desk and your card will be put into a ballot box for the prize pool

Visits

The following activities count towards visits, and you can visit as many times as you like in one day:

• Gym
• Pool
• Group Fitness
• Running group
• Melbourne Marathon
• Around the Bay
• Fit Camp
• Personal Training
• Court Hire

Prize pool

1 x 1 GB Flash MP3 player

1 x signed Melbourne Victory guernsey

1 x double pass to Day 3 of the Boxing Day Test Match at the MCG

3 x Fit Camp entries

3 x 10 hour passes for a court sport* of your choice (* sports vary between campuses)

For further information please contact:

Caulfield - 9903 2358
Clayton - 9905 4102
Peninsula - 9904 4496

Motivational Quote References:

1. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/Sports10.htm

2. “Spirit...has fifty times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle.”

http://www.topendsports.com/psychology/quotes-motivate.htm

3. “You’ll never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”

http://www.justforfun.co.uk/about-us/the-party-ethos/celebration-quotes.php

4. “Exercise to boost confidence along with reducing anxiety and stress, all of which contribute to psychological health and wellbeing.”
http://www.findcounseling.com/journal/health-fitness/

5. “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”
http://www.smartshape.com.au/a/528.html

6. “Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, helps prevent heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, improves mental health and helps prevent depression.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_exercise

7. “Exercise leads to an increase in energy and to better sleeping patterns, which may also explain why it is so helpful to people with depression.”
http://www.findcounseling.com/journal/health-fitness/

8. "Exercise is a tool that will help prevent mental or physical injuries and illnesses."

http://at-ease.dva.gov.au/www/html/48-exercise-and-physical-health.asp