The Push Up Challenge gets groups or individuals to set a target of 3318 push ups from June 1 to June 25.

The Push-Up Challenge is on to raise mental awareness and increase suicide prevention.

The number of push ups signifies the 3318 Australians who completed suicide in 2019.

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Headspace client services officer Andrea Coxon said the event put a spot light on the amount of lives lost to suicide.

"With suicide prevention it's about coming together as a community," Ms Coxon said,

"It's raising awareness on mental health and giving us an opportunity to start the conversation on mental health."

Ms Coxon said the event was great because not only can it spark conversations about mental health, it was an accessible challenge.

"Anyone can get involved," she said.

"You can do the challenge anytime, any where. It's open to all ages and abilities."

Ms Coxon said people can stretch out their daily push up target and can do other activities like suit-ups or squats.

"The idea around the Push-Up Challenge is to actually bring people together so people are making those connection," she said.

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"You're not alone, there are people who care about you."

One group who have put their hands up, is Horsham's CHS Group, where 11 brave people will achieve the whooping amount of push-ups to raise awareness for mental health.

CHS Groups' HS manager Darren Patterson said the company was focused on the mental health wellbeing of their staff.

"We're very focused on early intervention," he said.

"Like picking things up early and getting the conversation going."

Mr Patterson said he wanted the staff to be able to feel like they can speak up.

"(Mental health conversations) need to be freed up so that it's normal to speak about," he said.

"People need to feel like they can speak early and be confident that they are speaking to the right people.

"We have a lot of young people under 25, hopefully what they learn that talking is ok and acceptable. They can then take that through out all their lives."

Mr Patterson said the crew were a bit nervous but they will be training as a team before the challenge begins.

"I'm looking forward to testing myself. We'll encourage each other to keep each other going," he said.

"The rest of the company will be concentrating on supporting the team."

To get your group, school or business involved visit thepushupchallenge.com.au/

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