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PLEDGING FLIGHTS ....... a stair-climb challenge
Maybe you can’t do sit ups. Perhaps crunches are out of the question. Do you have trouble finding a challenge that you felt you could keep up with?
Got Steps?
In this challenge, you will step your way to a healthy you.. You will work as an individual, working at your own pace and ability. You will have availability a 3 page booklet that will help you keep track of steps. Follow the simple instructions and stair climb your way to the top of Slieve Donard, in Northern Ireland or to the top of the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada!
Yes! Stairmaster machines and step stools count! Keep track of your totals and climb!
Some helpful hints and how this works:
1. Instead of taking the elevator or the escalator, take the stairs.
2. When climbing stairs at the house, devise a reward system. For example, pick up a quarter at the bottom of the stairs and deposit it at the top. Work towards “earning” enough for a new pair of trousers or that slimming black dress.
3. Make this a challenge! If you already take the steps 5 times a day, shoot for 7 or 8. If you put things at the bottom of your stairs to carry all at once, try taking the load in segments.
4. Try running or hastening up the stairs instead of just walking. Get the heart pumping! Step tall and try not to slouch. Make your legs do the work.
5. Instead of telling the children to bring you something from upstairs, do it and count it for yourself. Get the kids in on the action! Let them climb to the top of Mt. Everest!
6. Don’t compare yourself with anyone else. Work at your level, but remember to make it a challenge.
7. Use the provided worksheet to count those steps. Count only the steps going up! Slide down the banister, if you wish or dare, but count only the upward motion.
8. Do check in and report your progress! Share your goals with the other members that will continue to join this challenge. Make sure to tell us all when you finish a climb!
9. When you have completed one mountain or one building, challenge yourself to go to the next. Challenge yourself to climb every mountain and scale every building listed! Begin each climb with zero. For example: You need 107 flights to complete the climb to the top of Canary Wharf Towers. When you complete that climb and start the next, start your counting at 0, not 108. You can, however, carry over any flights to the next climb. For example: If you needed 33 flights to finish Mount Blanc and you did 53, you can count Mount Blanc as finished and carry over 20 flights to your next climb.
10. If you are participating in the ADBB Presidential Challenge, you can log your stair challege by choosing walking from the activity list. Scroll to 'stairs' under the description.
11. After you have completed ALL of the buildings in a set, you will recieve the graphic award for climbing the virtual buildings. The same holds true for finishing ALL of the virtual mountains, Challengers Choice option and the Towers ~Masts~ Chimney virtual climbs.
12. Most important of all, have fun with this!
Here's a graphic for you to display to show your participation
in this challenge.
in this challenge.
CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR STAIR CLIMBING WORKSHEET
if that doesn't work [we sometimes have trouble with it], try this... WORKSHEET
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CHALLENGERS CHOICE OPTION
Pledging Flights Challengers will stairstep a total of 3 virtual climbs. Each climb should be no less than 3,000 ft in height. Mountains, Buildings, Towers, Masts and Chimneys that are already a part of other virtual climbs are not available for this option. For example, Mt. Everest, CN Tower and Taipei 101 are included in other sets of Virtual Climbs and will not be available for this option. Stomboli, a volcano in Italy, is not on any list and can be used for the Challengers Choice Option.
Calculating feet to flights:
feet x 2 = steps
divide the number of steps by 15 = flights
feet x 2 = steps
divide the number of steps by 15 = flights
This calculation is as close as possible (without being a pain to figure) to the original calculatons set by the British Heart Association.
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