Climbing Stairs.

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  • jesandrews91
    jesandrews91 Posts: 9 Member
    I think it's under stair-treadmill, ergometer .. Not sure why it's not just posted under stair climber or step mill... Anyways that's what I use to log my days on the stair mill and it's almost accurate according to what I physically did on the stair mill.
  • ctjh423
    ctjh423 Posts: 1 Member
    I work in a 23 story building at walk up and down the stairs at lunch. I start with a quick 1 mile walk then do the stairs. I think that it has been very effective for me because I am out of shape and really have to work hard at it. Walking up a flight of steps is different than walking up 20 flights. It is more of a workout than getting from one floor to another. I have been doing this for a week (and staying in my calorie count) and I have lost 12lbs in my first week. Keep up the good work!
  • Panda_Poptarts
    Panda_Poptarts Posts: 971 Member
    I hate stairs. They should be abolished.

    Me and the stair climber at the gym are NOT friends. If it's not something you usually do, I'd log the calories. I log my 6 minutes on the stair climber with joy.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,593 Member
    edited April 2016
    I climb 30-40 flights of stairs a day, 5 days a week, and have been doing that for some time now.

    When I started, I worked on the 5th floor of a 5-story office building. I started climbing those 5 flights 3 times a day and worked my way up to 8 times a day.

    We've moved, and I now work on the 2nd floor of an 11-story office building. So I walk down to the bottom, and hike all the way up 11 flights at a brisk pace without stopping. I walk all the way down to the bottom ... and then back up to the 2nd floor. 13 flights. I do that 2 or 3 times a day, plus a few extra to reach 30-40 flights.

    I log it as "Walking, upstairs".

    According to a chart posted at the bottom of the set of 5 flights of stairs in my previous work location, we would burn 30 calories climbing those 5 flights of stairs. So I do a calculation based on that and 30 flights works out to about 180 calories ... 40 flights works out to 240 calories.

    While that's nice ... even better is that all this stair climbing has really improved my ability to cycle up hills.
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