Stairs at home. How many times?

amandalfield

I want to do some HIIT at home and thinking of going up and down stairs. We have loft convertion so two flights. At no I am out of breath when I walk up them. Any advice on how I should set my programme to build up fitness and burn fat please? Thankyou in advance

Jthanmyfitnesspal

This is a very thrifty approach to fitness!

I would go by time. If you can sustain for at least 15 minutes, then you are starting to get some real benefit.

Also, you can do a range of at-home exercise plans from YouTube. Look up PopSugar Fitness.

sijomial

Stair walking would be cardio interval training rather than HIIT - which is probably more appropriate to you if your fitness level isn't high and you aren't accustomed to hard exercise.

You progress by progressively and sensibly increasing the intensity (walking faster) and/or duration at a sensible rate and also giving yourself recovery time. Enough to challenge yourself, not too much to hurt yourself or get badly fatigued.

Reducing your body fat is a result of a sustained calore deficit over an extended period of time - that's primarily down to eating at an appropriate level. Fat is burned 24x7 not just during exercise.

BrianSharpe

HIIT would be running up the stairs at as fast a pace as you could muster. Given the nature and purpose of HIIT it would be short durations with, normally a day or two of recovery time between (great if you're working on running speed) .

If you're interested in building fitness in general I second Sijomial's suggestion.

amandalfield

Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »

This is a very thrifty approach to fitness!

I would go by time. If you can sustain for at least 15 minutes, then you are starting to get some real benefit.

Also, you can do a range of at-home exercise plans from YouTube. Look up PopSugar Fitness.

Thankyou. I am looking for some cardio I can do at home as well as some resistance. I have some small weights to use. Very limited on time so want to do something short and regular.

amandalfield

Thank you

Machka9

I climb stairs at work, and I have found that walking 25-30 flights of 20 stairs is about ideal for me.

I had (have) to build up to that, but once I have, I can work on increasing my speed a bit.

amandalfield

Wow well done

firef1y72

I do regular stair workout with my trainer, and she really does turn a flight of stairs into a full body cardio/body weight strength workout.

We generally start with me running up and down a few times (interspersed with boxing), plus add in going up two stairs at time, up two/down one, lunge walking up, squat walking, side steps then get on to other fun. There really is so much you can do and as you get fitter you can add more advanced exercises.

You can squat jump up, do a leg extention on each step, or a side raise with the leg. You can do a press up on each step, or bear crawl up. You can do a tricep walk up and down, and many many more