MAB Personal Training and Adventures: The Mountains Are Calling You

Mountains are free and mountains are calling you... Imagine waking up on a glorious sunny clear day on the weekend on the Sunshine Coast, birds are chirping, the waves are crashing and you get urge to do something fun! You get the desire to feel FREE, to feel ALIVE, to feel STRONG, to feel AMAZING. Imagine the excitement, the fun, if you have the fitness to enjoy the adventure, vice versa, the adventure gifts you with the fitness.

On the coast we have so many opportunities of adventure, don’t let your fitness hold you back from enjoying the simple things in life. Especially if you have family involved, don’t hold them back because you’re not fit enough, imagine the freedom to feel fit to do anything the coast as to offer and share that with the people you care about.

The biggest thing that holds people back is the unknown, so here is a crash course on Sunshine Coast mountains to get you moving.

BEGINNERS

Mount Ngungun

253m

2.8km return

Open forest with a fern understorey, woodlands, a small rock overhang, caves, spectacular 360 degree views from the top of Mount Ngungun, close-up views of nearby Mount Tibrogargan, Mount Coonowrin and Mount Beerwah.

Mount Coolum
208m
3.2km return
Allow 1-2hrs
Mount Coolum's impressive dome-shape rises 208 m above the Sunshine Coast lowlands and provides spectacular 360 degree views of the coast and hinterland. The summit supports montane heath—a plant community, with rare and threatened species, that only　grows at two locations on the Sunshine Coast.
From the mountain, the park extends south and west across flat lowlands protecting wallum, paperbark wetlands, open eucalypt forest and rainforest remnants—plant communities that have largely disappeared from this part of the Sunshine Coast.


Mount Beerburrum
280m
1.4km return
Allow 1hr
Concrete steep path, at the top a small fire tower with surrounding views of the Glasshouse Mountains.


Mount Ninderry
304m
Approx. 2.5km return
Allow 1-2hrs
It’s a steady rocky climb up with promises of awesome views which you need to keep reminding yourself every time you stop for a breather. Views of Mount Coolum, ocean and you can see the Maroochy River winding along stunning green fields of crops happily growing in the glorious sunshine.

Wildhorse Mountain
123m
1.4km return
Allow 1hr
Well worth the concrete path for the fantastic 360 degree view.

Not only can you see most of the other mountains but on a clear day you can easily see Brisbane CBD, Redcliffe, Moreton and Bribie Islands, Moreton Bay, Pumicestone Passage, Calounda, Maroochydore and the Blackall Range.

　INTERMEDIATE

Mount Cooroora

439m

2km return

Allow 2-3hrs

The first 550 m of this walk through a variety of forest types to a lookout point with coastal views. Then there are steep, rocky sections, multiple stairs and chain rope climb sections. The last 30 m to the top of the summit is a rough scramble without chains.

At the top of the mountain sweeping 360 degree views include the coastal lakes and dunes of Cooloola Recreation Area.


　

ADVANCED

ONLY do if you are an experienced climber, some parts are very dangerous, first time climbers should be with someone that has climbed it before and is experienced with guiding you.


Mount Tibrogargan
364m
3km return
Allow 2-3hrs
Climb equivalent to 50 storeys of a high rise building. The summit route starts from the Mountain View lookout and continues for 300m up the western slope of the mountain. This first section of summit route has very loose and unstable rock until you reach the

‘No waiting zone’. The route then continues up a near vertical rockface to the summit


Mount Beerwah
556m
2.6km return
Allow 2-3hrs
Mount Beerwah is the highest of the Glass House Mountain peaks. The route takes you through wet eucalypt forest before opening up into heath, dotted with grass trees and banksias, as you climb towards the summit. At the summit you are rewarded with stunning 360 degree views of the coast, other Glass House peaks and the D’Aguilar Range to the west.

3 reason why you should climb a mountain –

1. Life sometimes seems like a mountain, build strength and confidence in all areas of your life, conquer your Mountain

2. Connect with Nature, FEEL Alive, FEEL Connected

3. Fun way to Gained Fitness/Lose Weight/Tone Muscle

Adventure is addictive, it is contagious, it is fun, it is living, connect with nature, connect with friends, and get fit while doing so. Feel free to add a weighted vest or multiple climbs to increase workout

Please share your mountain workouts, do a starjump after it and #mabstarjump so I can share the adventure, ps the starjump represents, live big, love big, dream big and do lots of starjumps because life is totally worth celebrating.

Happy mountain climbing all

Mel x


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