Train
Share the physical challenge of an activity people value.
Why Not I Workouts
Start with the sport. Make space for the person.
Why Not I Workouts brings mental health learning into the sports people already care about. Each experience combines activity with honest conversation, reflection and practical tools for navigating pressure, identity and the pursuit of personal goals.
Explore the WorkoutsThe approach
Start with what people already care about.
Basketball gives the documented groups a familiar, shared place to begin.
Participants come to train together, hear lived experience and make space to consider mindset and mental health. Why Not I’s wider ambition is to connect through people’s interests; these pages document basketball Workouts, not completed programmes in other activities.
Workouts are educational community experiences. They are not clinical treatment and cannot promise an improvement in mental health for every participant.
Listen
Hear lived experience and honest mental health learning.
Reflect
Consider mindset, pressure and what a next step could be.
Two documented editions
The first Workout in 2024. A second in 2025.
2024
Young England and Great Britain basketball talent took part in training and mental resilience learning.
The day connected detailed basketball work with an opening talk, challenging questions and a Why Not I booklet. Participants’ accounts describe physical drills alongside thinking about mindset, identity and mental health.
2025
Junior and senior basketball talent came together for physical training and mental resilience activity.
The film documents basketball and fitness work alongside mental health education, breathing exercises, meditation and a mindfulness or yoga session.
Voices from the Workouts
In their own words.
“I enjoyed the basketball workout and what was being taught. I enjoyed how inspiring your talk was at the start and how you asked us challenging questions which made me think.”
“It brought together hoopers, not just to train but to be able to learn different techniques for off the court such as breathing exercises and meditation.”
Build a future experience together
Where could an activity open a conversation?
Schools, clubs, community groups and organisations can bring forward an interest, a setting and an idea. This is an invitation to explore what an activity-led experience could become.