Staircase - OW!

Sunsh1ne
Sunsh1ne Posts: 879 Member
edited September 20 in Fitness and Exercise
I am living in the dorms at college and it's about a quarter-mile walk to the gym on campus, which is a great warmup most days but today was yucky rain-sleety and I didn't feel like it, so I had the great idea to use the stairs in my building, which has 13 stories. Great idea, right? OH. MY. GOODNESS. I live on the 11th floor, and my idea was to jog to the ground floor as a warmup, and then go up two, down one, until I got back to my floor. The first two flights were easy - so easy that I changed the plan to 3-2. And then on the second set, four steps from the top of the fourth floor - ow. Everything started to hurt. I finished my workout at more of a walk than a jog, barely able to breath, stopping to use the water fountain every couple of floors.

This gets easier, right?

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  • kzalusky360
    kzalusky360 Posts: 29
    YES YES YES!!! (it does get easier!) but stairs are awesome...i swear by them!

    your idea is great and you should keep doing it. push yourself to keep a steady pace the entire time instead of going fast at first and slowing down by the end.

    i used to do stairs in two capacities:

    first i did it outside at our local art gallery....huuugggeee set of marble stairs overlooking a gorgeous pond/lake thing. I started by timing myself with songs on my ipod. (ie. run the stairs for 5 songs, etc.) i started in october....it got cold (and snowy!) quick so the bike ride and stair runs ceased over the winter--trading out for the eliptical trianer. when i started in the spring i had lost a significant amount of weight over the winter and running the stairs was such a breeze that i upped the songs from 5 to 7, then to 10, etc.

    i also used to use the revolving stair climber (no, not a stair stepper...but the actual set of stairs that moves) sweat just POURS off. i hit a plateau, used the revolving stair climber and busted right through the plateau. definitely worth your time and sweat! :)

    keep up the good work!!
  • mmnichol
    mmnichol Posts: 208 Member
    I do a stair routine as well. At work there are 7 floors and 4 stairwells. at lunch i go up and down about 7-8 flights, takes about 25 minutes and i can do it no matter what the weather and its free!!! and i did have to work up to this!!!
  • Chocolickkyss
    Chocolickkyss Posts: 3,654 Member
    YES YES YES!!! (it does get easier!) but stairs are awesome...i swear by them!

    your idea is great and you should keep doing it. push yourself to keep a steady pace the entire time instead of going fast at first and slowing down by the end.

    i used to do stairs in two capacities:

    first i did it outside at our local art gallery....huuugggeee set of marble stairs overlooking a gorgeous pond/lake thing. I started by timing myself with songs on my ipod. (ie. run the stairs for 5 songs, etc.) i started in october....it got cold (and snowy!) quick so the bike ride and stair runs ceased over the winter--trading out for the eliptical trianer. when i started in the spring i had lost a significant amount of weight over the winter and running the stairs was such a breeze that i upped the songs from 5 to 7, then to 10, etc.

    i also used to use the revolving stair climber (no, not a stair stepper...but the actual set of stairs that moves) sweat just POURS off. i hit a plateau, used the revolving stair climber and busted right through the plateau. definitely worth your time and sweat! :)

    keep up the good work!!


    OMG, I used the revolving stair climber for the first time in my life on Tuesday and I thought I was going to pass out. It is TOTALLY DIFFERENT than the stair stepper. I eventually caught a rhythm and was able to continue climbing at level 6 for the entire 30 minutes but you sure didn't lie when you said sweat pours off of you. I could not have climbed a minute before I was wiping sweat away. I could not wait til my 30 minutes was up but felt soooo good knowing I conquered it by not giving up.
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