Stair master

katrinalawson

So I’m currently doing around 40 mins on the stair master on level 10. Will this help me lose weight.

Rose18l

Calories in vs. calories out will make you lose weight not necessaraly the stairmaster. What the stairmaster will do is burn extra calories which will increase your calorie allowance. Don't forget to eat back the calories you burned while using the stairmaster.

sijomial

Not if you are using MyFitnessPal as designed.
You would then be eating back those exercise calories so that your actual deficit remains the same - the rate of loss you picked when you set up your goals.

What it would mean is that you lose your weight while eating more calories than if you didn't exercise.

But of course the other huge benefit is that you will be much fitter and healthier if you exercise.

Lean59man

Stairmaster is great for your legs and butt.

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KiwiLifter

Lean59man wrote: »

Stairmaster is great for your legs and butt.

It's also a repeated pattern, done over and over that will lead to imbalances. There's no doubt climbing stairs is fantastic for conditioning, but 40 minutes may be a little much. I hope you're following a gym routine too.

sgt1372

KiwiLifter wrote: »

Lean59man wrote: »

Stairmaster is great for your legs and butt.

It's also a repeated pattern, done over and over that will lead to imbalances. There's no doubt climbing stairs is fantastic for conditioning, but 40 minutes may be a little much. I hope you're following a gym routine too.

I'd qualify this remark by saying that using the Stairmaster "improperly could" lead to certain muscular imbalances if done repeatedly w/o correction.

I see a lot of people leaning forward resting their weight on the hand rails while on the Stairmaster, which could lead to all kinds of problems and obviously isn't the way it "should" be done.

Ideally, the way one should use the Stairnaster is w/o holding on to the hand rails whatsoever, which is the most natural position and requires you to make use of your core and rest of your body to maintain your balance, posture and gait on the stairs.

If you do this, I don't see how you'd develop any muscular imbalances on a Stairmaster.

As to duration, if you are doing it wrong, doing it longer will likely make what you are doing wrong even worse but, if you're doing it right, doing it longer will only make you better and stronger at climbing stairs and doing other activities that make use of your muscles in a similar way.

FWIW, my typical Stairmaster session is 60 mins long which I do w/o resting on the hand rails, which I use for training on 7-10 mile hikes w/1-2k ft elevation changes, and I have not noticed any muscular imbalances or other problems caused as a result.

sschauer513

40 mins is long for me I'm dead on the stairs after 15 I can gut through a few more minutes but watch your form is very important the hunched over stair climb will give you all type of problems. Have to treat it like you are really walking up stairs straight up and down. Won't lose weight but will burn calories so as long as food in part is under control you should be in a deficit.

islensku_flugdolgur

Our gym just got a stair master (the same as a stair mill?) I love this piece of equipment. Ours displays a moving landscape as you climb. I can achieve and maintain level 4 with no problem and it seems to require more calories than either a treadmill or elliptical machine. If caloric intake is somewhat restricted II can see where someone can lose weight on a stair master.