Live Life Get Active

Live Life Get Active revealed that 25% of members who register for their nutrition, fitness and wellness platform were either on the cusp of, or were suffering from, a mild mental health disorder. A further 25% stated they suffered from a mental illness that could be classed as medium to severe. 

Left unaddressed, these mental health challenges could worsen over time and can compound other forms of chronic disease, such as diabetes or obesity.

While Live Life Get Active was offering a range of online health and education services, they wanted to expand their services into the mental health space to better meet the needs of the community. This grant has allowed Live Life Get Active to develop programming for its new series called My Positive Mind which help people understand how mental health challenges can occur and how to cope with them.

My Positive Mind is an animated online series developed by Clinical Psychologists, covering a range of topics identified through social research. The program focuses on increasing the participants capacity to cope with stressors and provides strategies, tools, support and guidance that individuals can review, practice and start implementing right away.

Each topic breaks down into seven episodes and mirrors traditional sessions with a psychologist through linked episodes, regular check-ins, live Q&A’s and viewing tracking to support users to continue with the series. 

The latest funding allowed Live Life Get Active to produce a new program on 'Anxiety' and continue supporting the mental health and wellbeing of Australians.

By providing this free evidence-based online program, My Positive Mind aims to support individuals in addressing their wellbeing needs and reducing the long-term impacts of poor mental health. 

Specifically, the program aims to 

• improve capacity to deal with stressors

• improve social outcomes such as the ability to connect

• reduced need for mental health services

Through these programs, Live Life Get Active is collecting de-identified data from users with the aim to share these insights with other medical and community services to help improve health outcomes. 

Past project

The importance of a healthy diet and regular exercise is well known, with data showing that up to 20% of the burden of disease is due to physical inactivity. However, 13% of this burden could be avoided if everyone did as little as 15 minutes of activity each day.

COVID-19 disrupted the lives of all Aussies, including their fitness routines and access to gyms and group fitness; and demonstrated that there is a need and increasing demand for online options for those wishing to access a supportive online community to build a healthy lifestyle.

Live Life Get Active provides free outdoor fitness camps, virtual exercise sessions for those who can’t leave home, and diet advice to help Australians combat chronic disease. Its focus is on both wellness and fostering community relationships through social connection.

With our support Live Life Get Active expanded its reach to more Australians by offering better online health and education services, including live fitness and wellness sessions, nutritional advice and video meal plan inspiration.

The project helped more Australians, many of whom may have chronic diseases, are isolated or live in rural and remote communities, to access better information about health and wellbeing.

On-demand, free classes mean people can do their exercise at a time and at a pace that suits them helping to build better physical activity habits and support them to prioritise their health and fitness.

By providing continued access to quality education, information and support, it’s expected to improve the identified health issues of poor mental health and physical inactivity within these communities.