Be Mobile Over 55 not Over the Hill

57 Squat Challenge 2023

Team Total

Completed
squats 41,200

Team Target
squats 38,874

Being Mobile.... NBCF research

This is one of the research projects conducted by NBCF - focusing on the benefits of staying active in preventing and recovering from Breast Cancer. Great work everyone!!!

Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and breast cancer: determining how type, domain, duration and intensity affect risk and prognosis

 

Exercise can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer, and improve survival amongst women diagnosed with the disease. Despite this knowledge, the majority of Australian women do not participate in sufficient exercise. Further, how the eight or nine hours of daily sitting time accumulated by Australian women affects their breast cancer risk is unknown. Given what we know about the biology of breast cancer, it is likely that sitting time also contributes to risk.

The research address two themes: breast cancer prevention, and breast cancer survivorship. Using data collected by existing studies I will examine how the type, duration, intensity and frequency of exercise and sitting time relate to breast cancer. A new study (part of a much larger project being undertaken by Cancer Council Victoria – the ABC Study) will collect accurate information on the exercise and sitting time patterns of approximately 1,000 postmenopausal women, by using small devices called accelerometers. This will help us to understand how exercise and sitting time affect breast cancer risk. Another new study will investigate whether the use of wearable activity monitors (such as the Fitbit®) can increase breast cancer survivors’ exercise and reduce their sitting time.

The proposed research will enable us to provide more specific advice to women about how much, and what type of, exercise they should be doing to prevent breast cancer, or to improve their survival after diagnosis. It will also allow us to give guidance on how much sitting is can be safely done each day.


Exercise can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer, and improve survival amongst women diagnosed with the disease. Despite this knowledge, the majority of Australian women do not participate in sufficient exercise. Further, how the eight or nine hours of daily sitting time accumulated by Australian women affects their breast cancer risk is unknown. Given what we know about the biology of breast cancer, it is likely that sitting time also contributes to risk.

The proposed research will address two themes: breast cancer prevention, and breast cancer survivorship. Using data collected by existing studies I will examine how the type, duration, intensity and frequency of exercise and sitting time relate to breast cancer. A new study (part of a much larger project being undertaken by Cancer Council Victoria – the ABC Study) will collect accurate information on the exercise and sitting time patterns of approximately 1,000 postmenopausal women, by using small devices called accelerometers. This will help us to understand how exercise and sitting time affect breast cancer risk. Another new study will investigate whether the use of wearable activity monitors (such as the Fitbit®) can increase breast cancer survivors’ exercise and reduce their sitting time.

The proposed research will enable us to provide more specific advice to women about how much, and what type of, exercise they should be doing to prevent breast cancer, or to improve their survival after diagnosis. It will also allow us to give guidance on how much sitting is can be safely done each day.

Halfway!!

We are halfway through the Challenge (almost) and the Wednesday group went Pink! Also a great opportunity to celebrate that we have reached $10K in our total. Will make a significant difference in the work done by National Breast Cancer Foundation - and will impact the lives of many we don't know and some we do. Its a great Team effort and turns out its great fun too!!! 

Jeanette xxx

Thank You!

Hello Be Mobile Chums,
Absolutely chuffed you have signed up for the challenge and already we have raised over $700! Jack and Ollie will be helping with sharing the Challenge to other groups and hopefully adding more people. Let me know if you have any questions and I will try to sort it out. 
Be Mobile is such a lovely community .
lots of love Jeanette xx

Be Mobilers will be doing the 57 Squat Challenge for breast cancer research

57 Australians will be diagnosed with breast cancer today and a further 9 will lose their life. Those are our mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, and friends. We want to make a difference to the lives of those 57 Australians impacted by the disease - that is why we are taking on the 57 Squat Challenge to raise vital funds for world-class breast cancer research. But we need your help.

Every donation, big or small, will get us closer to reaching our goal and helping the National Breast Cancer Foundation end deaths from breast cancer.

Thank you to our Sponsors

$520

David Molloy

Go darling. You can do it

$520

Lisa Molloy

$510

Be Mobile Physiotherapy

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Shirley Hume

$311

John Davies

Hoofing Effort, Jenny Wren xxx

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Oak

$211

James Leslie

Go Mum!!!

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Swati Dave

Awesome work Jennie!

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Anonymous

Go Jennie.

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Kerry

Excellent squat total Fiona. Your thighs must be impressive.

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Auntie Ethel

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Anonymous

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Stephen Dawson

$158

Allan Bell

Go for it Jeanette. I've only got 56 more Squats to do

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Petri Puustinen

Great work darling for a good cause

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Sisters

Go B…. You can do it…

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Jennie Dawson

Love you!!

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Diane Russell

$106

James Dawson

Great job Dad!!

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Susan Thorpe

Well done Jennie! 💪🏻 Such a great cause !!

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Snips

$106

Tim Dawson

Great cause!!!

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Riki De Waal

$106

Am Legal Solutions

Marvellous effort Barbara

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Bett & Doug Matthews

Great effort Jeanette, great cause

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Tracey Hryce

$106

Patricia Wendy Williams

Thank you for your efforts and happy to support!

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Majella Hall

$106

Jeanette Trafford

$106

Gillian Rafferty

$106

Diane Russell

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Scott And Amanda Mackenzie

Fabulous effort for a super important cause!

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The Heslops

Well done Trace xx

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Nena Nedeljkovic

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Cass

Love you mum

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Linda Heath

$106

Ross Kennan

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Anonymous

Great cause to support

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Jenny Billiet

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Susan Kruse

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Max

Good luck Rob! Great cause.

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Friends++

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Susan Anderssen

With love! 💗💗💗

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Kye Voss

Good luck with the fund raiser for this great cause and keep squatting

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Sylvia

Great work Jeanette! 👏👏

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Nick England

Squat on team

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Jordan Molloy

💪💪

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A.c.c. Austpac Commodities Pl

Great cause, happy squatting!

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Deb Hough

Great cause & challenge. Well done Team!

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Smith-white

Buns of steel Riki! Good luck with this challenge. Well done!

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Prue

Go girl!

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Kevin Smith

Wow that’s a lot of squats!

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Miriam Gross

$100

The Connery’s

$84

Nikki Noakes

Well done J!

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Roger Twigg

$79

David Innes

Proud of you!!

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Wendy Bird

Good Luck Team.

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Louise Povolny

Good one Jeanette

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Jacqueline Murphy

Well done “Barbara” xxxxx

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Anonymous

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Jean Redmond

Well done Riki on your squat challenge

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Jenny Wellings

$53

Will Dawson

❤️

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Annette Kuyumcian

Can’t wait to see those buns of steel in Melbourne. Well done for accepting the challenge X

$53

Jo

$53

Caz Thompson

Never thought I’d call you a squatter Robyn! Great cause. Good on you!

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Amanda Patterson

Wonderful cause xx

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Gill Leary

Well done on your achievement and for raising funds for such a worthy cause.

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Kim

Great cause Judi. Good luck with the challenge and raising awareness.

$53

Anonymous

Go Sue. I do 20 a day and that's hard enough on the knees.

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Andrea Hatzidis

Well done Jennie ❤️

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Terry And Anke Dawson

Good luck Steve, great cause. Hope your knees don’t give way!!

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Katherine Gordon

$53

Marion May

$53

Kim Grosser

$53

Deb Rixon

Congratulations Robyn! Fantastic effort.

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Anja Soll

great idea

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Suzanne Wilson

Proud of you, and such a wonderful cause xxx

$53

Kerry Gilbert

Well done Riki for doing this. ❤️❤️

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Annie Al

Inspirational and determined as always, keep shining bright Jeanette aka Gary’s Mum✨✨✨

$53

Kathy Mccarthy

$53

Skye Barry

Happy Birthday and well done Jennie!

$53

Deb Cleveland

$53

Anonymous

Well done taking on the challenge for an important cause

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Gail Tarrant

Well done girls. You are all awesome.

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Tracey Hryce

$53

Pam Cervonaro

Amazing effort!

$53

Irene Fredborg

Go Heidi

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Pamela Pearce

What a great cause. well done, Jenny amazing

$53

Christine Arnold

$53

The Beyerhams

Proud of you!!

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Debbie Trafford

$53

Cherryann Woods

$53

Robyn Carver

hope all goes well-best wishes

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Fiona Leslie

$53

Liz

Good on you Jeanette

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David Davies

Go Jeanette!!

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Rob Hume

$53

Ailsa & Graeme

$53

Mary Billing

Is that my photo?!

$53

Heide Voss

$53

Todd, Brooke & Layla Wilson

Well done mumma! Love u xx

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Anonymous

$53

Carolin Ferris

Keep on squatting!!

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Liz Beyer

Gooooooo Mum!!!

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Barbara Gerber

$53

Barbara Mindel

$53

Laurie Carter

Great work Barbara. You're very inspiring!

$53

Beverley De Mestre

$53

Cameron Wood

Awesome work Jeanette! Keep up the good work!

$53

Gareth Davey

You go girl xxx

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Nicolette Oliver

Well done Jennie 🥰

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Briana Azzopardi

$53

Mick Trafford

$53

Leeanne Crisp

$53

Lucy

$53

Xavier Nugent

Keep up the good work!

$53

Maria Caldwell

Great work Jennie

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Jen Falconer

$53

Jack Leslie

$53

Jennie Dawson

$53

Chris Humphries

You are amazing Jen!

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Sylvie Bryan

Go Jen ! Xxx

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Sarina Bratton

Here’s to stronger glutes for research 😀

$53

Jill C

Great work, robyn

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Victoria

Such a great cause!🙏🙏🙏

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Anonymous

Jen you bloody legend. You are amazing. Big hugs ❤️

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Georgia Beyer

Keep up the good work, especially Robyn Beyer!

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Paul Gray

Good luck

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Jenny Larkin

$53

Denise Wilson

$53

Eugenia C

Great work Jen supporting such a wonderful cause 🌼🌼🌼

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Ashley And Toby

keep pushing Heide! x

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Neil Burgoyne

$52

Denise Harris

Great work Rikki.

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Bernie Gore

Buns of steel Jeanette.

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Jade And Marcus Voss

Go Heide!!!

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Sharon Gage

Great job Jen! More than happy to support you and such a great cause. Go girl!

$52

Anonymous

What a wonderful cause. Go girl, 57 squats - what a breeze for you!

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Wendy Thomas

good luck with your squats

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Riki De Waal

Donation From Tamar

$52

Riki De Waal

Donation from Salpie

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Kel Gage

That a great effort given your knees buddy! Next fundraising is for a new set of knees for Steve!

$52

Tania Dawson

Well done Uncle Steve!!!

$52

Maria And Peter Ryan

You go girl great effort for our walks 🤣😂

$52

Fiona Greenland

$52

Tim Pharo

$52

Camilla Lane

Fantastic effort. Go Jennie!

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Stephen Dawson

$52

Jan Thompson

Go Sue!!

$52

Karen Slowgrove

Well done Tracey!

$51

Sydneypodiaryco

Buns of steel after all those squats!!!

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Facebook Donation

$50

Colin Bennett

$50

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Alex Leslie

You are awesome Mum!! Good work!

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Lttie

You go girl

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Emily

$50

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Richard De Mestre

$50

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Wendy Monteleone

Go you good thing! Great cause. x 57 squats, you will have buns of steel by the end of the month.

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John Adams

$50

Facebook Donation

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Geoff

$40

Gary Davies

$36

Julia Bigeni

Way to go Judi xx

$32

Robyn Beardsley

Go girl!

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Janelle Butt

Well done Fiona.

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Sophie Thorpe

Go Jennie! Xx

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Bill Kelly

You go girl!

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Bryant

You go girl 😉

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Judy Crewe

Go well, Barbara.

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Fiona Matthews

Good luck with the squats Barbara. Impressive!

$30

Beverley Davidson

Go Barbara 👏👏👏👏

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Facebook Donation

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Anne

Great cause. Have fun!

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Sue Clubbe

$26

Scott Kennan

$26

Glenda Finch

$26

Scott Kennan

$26

Karla Rothpletz-tatt

$26

Vicky Berry

Well done Barb, so happy to donate!

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Cook

$26

Louise

Well done. 🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♂️

$26

Gisela Schumacher

Go Robyn!

$26

Tim Alston

$26

Deborah Adams

$26

Eunice

Wonderful cause keep up the good work Barb!

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$21

Eleanor Flinders

Go girl 💜

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Stehanie Molloy

$21

Renee Lisa Donaghey

Good Luck - love your butt

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Rebecca Dorsey

$21

Anonymous

$21

Kim Jeffery

Go Barb

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Jackie Armstrong

Love that outfit!

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Emma Elizabeth Selby

$21

Glenn Puckeridge

$21

Jeni Smith

well done Barb.

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Jacquie Martin

What a girl!!

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Nicki Stephens

Go Aunty B!

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Anonymous

$20

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Sharon

Well done Barb xx

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Jody

Good work B! xxx

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Fowell

Go Barb! Love Lucy and Richard

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Nadia Dimanis

Good luck Steve!!

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Carol Budd

Go Barbara!

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Jake Wilson

Wooooo go Mum!!!

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Bec Calloway

Go you good thing!!!!