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Stair
Climbing
Fast + Efficient
+ Age-defying
by Maggie Spilner
Stair climbing ups the
ante of a workout.
W
onderful walks are both
relaxing and invigorating, but
if you want to kick butt, liter-
ally—building strong glutes and thighs;
strengthening your core, which helps
improve posture and tighten abs; and
stepping up to cardiovascular fitness
quickly and efficiently—try stair climb-
ing. Wayne Wescott, Ph.D., renowned
exercise physiologist, military fitness
consultant and author of Get Stronger,
Feel Younger, states that climbing stairs
is one of the more vigorous cardiovas-
cular workouts you can do.
Pushing your whole body weight
up vertically burns lots of calories and
uses lots of energy quickly. I often
advise flatlanders to find some stairs in
an office building or stadium and climb
them regularly to strengthen their legs
and increase their endurance.
Although I have a one-story house,
I have found two stair workouts I like
to play with. On one, I walk about two
miles on a wooded path by the river to
a triple flight of stairs that takes me onto
a bridge where I can then double back
to my car along shaded city streets. It’s
my mini-Mount Everest and it really
perks up the entire workout.
For a more steady and challenging
stair workout, I use a Stairmaster at the
gym, the kind with an actual revolving
staircase. The trick is to start out slowly
and find a pace that you can maintain
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