Does anyone climb stairs for exercise?

SolidGoaled
SolidGoaled Posts: 504 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I mean beyond the scope of what is required by daily activities... I just had a workout and I was 100 calories short of my burn goal. So, I decided to go up and down my flight of stairs in my home 10 times and see what happened. I made my goal with that little stair climbing. My HRM increased quickly - and I wondered if stair climbing could be something I could develop an interval routine with? Possibly in between arm work, I could climb stairs. Does anyone else do this type of thing?

Also, since climbing stairs is such work on the leg muscles, could that be considered "resistance" training for the legs?

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  • uubulldawg06
    uubulldawg06 Posts: 102 Member
    I make an effort to take the stairs all day at work at least 3 days a week. It is an awesome workout for the bum!
  • lphoenix129
    lphoenix129 Posts: 21
    I climb stairs at work sometimes on my breaks. My department is on the 3rd floor, so I jog down to the 1st floor and run up them about 5 times in 10 mins. It's a great little workout. I usually burn quite a bit of calories in a short amount of time.
  • mummum2
    mummum2 Posts: 415 Member
    I have done it! lol: only because one day couldn't go for a run! I have an ap on my phone called Cardiotrainer, this has a lots of training exercices one can do including climbing stair, I logged onto that and just keep climbing up and down my stairs for 40 minutes or so, yes, great calories burn! although found it boring! lol:
  • rmhand
    rmhand Posts: 1,067 Member
    I'm taking a fitness class called Stairs and Stability. We do a 5-4-3-2-1 set where we run up and down the stairs 5 times then we do a different core or balance oriented exercise, like crunches on a swiss ball etc. Then we run up and down the stairs 4 times and do another exercise. I scorch 300 calories in 45 minutes and I weigh 125. Its a great work out.
  • LiL_MisS_C
    LiL_MisS_C Posts: 332 Member
    Yes, and the people in my building think I'm nuts. lol ;)
  • jennmcpherson
    jennmcpherson Posts: 263 Member
    I love stairs as a work out! I'm a stay at home mom so it's just perfect but really I recommend them to everyone. It's free, gets your heart rate up and works your butt and legs, what more could you ask for! I'm currently doing the "100 pushups" challenge so I do them both together. I start with the first set of pushups then run up and down my stairs until I reach 10 flights, then I do another set of pushups and another 10 flights, etc. You get the idea. All in all, I end up doing 5 sets of the pushups challenge and 40 flights of stairs.
  • BECav0602
    BECav0602 Posts: 200 Member
    I work out with a personal trainer and he ALWAYS incorporates cardio in between strength training exercises. So, I will do arm exercises and in between each one I will do 3-5 stairs (walk down and sprint back up 3-5 times). Sometimes I do tire jumps in between or jumping jacks. It definitely gets my heart rate up and I typically burn about 500-600 calories in an hour session so I think it is a good idea. GOod luck!
  • darrenham
    darrenham Posts: 110 Member
    Yes. Running up stairs is excellent. You get a greater range of movement than normal sprinting, and because it's a more intense work-out, you don't need to go so far to get the heart rate up. Anyone looking for high intensity / explosive lower body exercise should do it.
  • SolidGoaled
    SolidGoaled Posts: 504 Member
    Wow - thanks for all the responses! I am so siked to incorporate more stair-climbing into my workout routine! How awesome!
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