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The first Walking to Lose Weight Virtual Walk will be the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb.

One reason for choosing the Sydney Harbour Bridge is as an easy introduction to the idea and exercise behind using virtual opportunities as stimulation for your imagination and walking to lose weight.

The actual climb takes about 3.5 hours and doesn’t require fitness so much as health as the many steps, walking on narrow walkways between and climbing in all weather (although you’re unlikely to find it snowing in Sydney) as well as the horrendous safety gear make the whole thing a mental challenge- the total distance is 1.74 kms of slow climbing never ending stairs. The attraction of the climb is that all the way to the top you get stunning views.

Virtual Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb

Preparation:

Click here to see some details of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Check out the safety requirements and suit up here.

Climb:

Plan to do 2.5 kms in stair steps. This requires something like 3125 – 4000 steps, taking about 45 – 55 minutes.

The idea is to do this by focusing on the stair climbing. Firstly find some stairs which lend themselves to this exercise – office building stairwell, car park, entries to buildings, etc. or use an exercise DVD which you can do with a step, or requires high knee and leg moves. The local railway station here has multiple steep staircases and is perfect for this exercise. The point is to do the number of required steps so if this is high impact movement for you take your time or split it up over 2 separate exercise days. The local step class at the gym would see you do this in one class. This is not about the time it takes to do but doing the real steps. Of course if this is a breeze to do, it can be intensified by restricting the time taken to do it.

Reward:

Go to the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb site and click where it says Panoramic View from Bridge. Enjoy the view.

Each week in February Walking to Lose Weight is creating some virtual walks which are interesting and fun to think about and do. Wonderful real world events exist which you can participate in or treat as virtual (which many people do) and in the same way you can make up your own. Choose a way of exercising and walking for weight loss which sparks some incentive for you to get up and walk every day. Build in to the activity the option of ‘doing’ it as in going outside and walking, or ‘faking’ it by walking inside on a treadmill or in front of the TV or a DVD. Remember – as you are using your imagination, the details don’t need to be exactly right.

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