Stair Climbing Australia

Below is a blog that I wrote for another Health & Fitness organisation and I wasn’t going to post it here until I experienced a very real case of my point in writing in the lead up to this week’s Climb For Cancer in Brisbane. I felt that I needed to train and despite being [...]

We’ve had a few people contact us and ask for the best possible way to train for the Stadium Stomp given its unique element of having to also run down stairs and across flat landings so we’ve decided to share with you the following options. Most people who live in Melbourne have made the trek [...]

I had this article posted on a Facebook Group that I belong to and felt that it has a lot of relevance to stair climbing and therefore felt I should share. We’ve had a few queries over the years about how one should warm-up for a stair climb and I think a lot can be [...]

Assuming that you’ve spent the last few months preparing for the Eureka Climb it’s now time to spend the last week before the race tapering, or in other words reducing the volume of your training. This is not the time to increase your training load in an attempt to gain greater fitness levels as you [...]

We’re going to let you in on a little secret. You’ll climb the Eureka Tower faster walking than running. The idea sounds completely absurd as it goes against what seems logical, but the fact that you are pushing your body weight against gravity over such a long distance means it’s not about having the most [...]