running up and down my stairs to lose weight????

berrycherry

So i was wondering has anyone try'd using their stairs at home for exercise?? And did you see good results? thanks in advance

ted1

A home stairs really wouldn't be long enough.

GoneShootin

ted1 wrote: »

A home stairs really wouldn't be long enough.

True, and the pitch of the home stairs could have a negative impact on your knees and hips if you ran up and down for extended periods of time. Plus falling on the way down wouldn't be pretty!

Stairs could be used for other exercises though, like step aerobics and incline pushups.

xgtdec

squat and jump to say the 3rd/4th step a few times, should get your lungs going!!

deegs

Can be really good, I tried it last year and got some good results.

You can do lots of variations, sprinting up / jogging back, sprinting up, hopping backwards down, jumping up/ jumping back down, jumping up, sprinting down backwards, hopping up/ jog back, hop up left / hop back right, or any variation you like etc.

Also can be good for agility and speed... running up 4, back 2, up 4 back 2, up 4 back 2, facing forward for both or forward up and backward down or varied pyramid things, up 5 back 1, up 2, back 3, up 3, back 2, up 1 back 5 etc.

Works great also if you think of it as an agility ladder, but with vertical plyometrics

Lots of idea's on the web and a great place to start is here
http://www.livestrong.com/article/279532-stair-exercises-at-home/

huskerdu

If you want to exercise at home, running up and down the stairs is a good idea, but you should try to work out a 30 minute routine of stairs running and other exercises.

Running up and down the stairs for 30 minutes is going to be unbelieveably boring. Its hard to believe you could keep it up. But, the previous poster pointed you to a website with lots of ideas.

It's a great idea to do exercise, but don't depend on it for weight lose.

If you want to use exercise to help lose weight, you need to be counting calories. Unless you are putting in hours of training every day, you cant lose weight by exercise alone,

30 minutes of aerobic exercise will burn approx 200/300 calories.( This depends on what weight you are and how intense the exercise is).

200 calories is only a packet of crisps.

You need to burn 3500 calories to lose a pound of fat.

Try a few aerobic routines at home and do it regularly and control your diet and see how it goes.

roashter

What about one of those stairmaster machines that are in some gyms.

I had my cruciate reconstructed a few years back and found this machine a great help for building up quad muscles.
It had the added bonus of working me much harder than I would have done on a bike/rower/threadmill, and used to sweat buckets after 10 minutes on this.

berrycherry

Thanks for the advice....

megtyler

it's cardio so it can work. it has the same risks as any cardio exercise. but make sure you raise your heartrate (to the acceptable rate) long enough.

optimistic_

deegs wrote: »

Can be really good, I tried it last year and got some good results.

You can do lots of variations, sprinting up / jogging back, sprinting up, hopping backwards down, jumping up/ jumping back down, jumping up, sprinting down backwards, hopping up/ jog back, hop up left / hop back right, or any variation you like etc.

Also can be good for agility and speed... running up 4, back 2, up 4 back 2, up 4 back 2, facing forward for both or forward up and backward down or varied pyramid things, up 5 back 1, up 2, back 3, up 3, back 2, up 1 back 5 etc.

Works great also if you think of it as an agility ladder, but with vertical plyometrics

Lots of idea's on the web and a great place to start is here
http://www.livestrong.com/article/279532-stair-exercises-at-home/

J*sus....Don't do that.

deegs

ah... Fair enough...
I'd still say do it but use the handrail and stay safe... Its not like you'd get the same speed as going forward, but point taken.