Walking the stairs, burning them calories

That's right the simplest things you do everyday can keep you up in shape. Walking up the stares instead of taking the elevator, going to a store near your house on foot than taking your car to go, getting your dog for a walk, are some of these simple things that doesn't seem as a workout but they are when you doesn't do a sport or when you don't go to a gym or something

Dear Deodavid Waling the stair may be good but can be dangerous. You may hurt your ankle. You should try to do strength training to increase your metabolism. Such exercise does help to burn calories even at rest. I do not recommend you to skip aerobic exercise. It does help to burn fats from your body. It should be non-impact exercise such as waling,swimming and cycling. But it should be done for at least 30 min. per day for 3 days a week. Should you need more info please continue this this thread. Thanks a million. Bro. Joe. GBU

I am always telling people that there is no need to ever join a gym because there are plenty of things that you can do in the comfort of your own home in order to lose weight. I will put my iPod on top volume and set a playlist of around ten minutes long and will then walk up and down the stairs in my house for as long as the songs last for. I have lost six and a half stone in the past 16 months and I know that part of it is because of the exercise that I have been doing up and down the stairs several times each week.

i know a good thing you would like that might be helpful, i use to have one go to the store and get you a pedometer.. that counts your steps taken daily and you can set a certain amount of steps every day. when i did it i would just walk around the house or even run in place or step in place or dance just to get my numbers on it work.. but try get a good one the cheap ones are not the best.. but the better ones are not that expensive either .. just look at it before getting and read the package that helps choose the best one..

That's a good form of home exercise, but you could also use a chair or an elevated platform, going up from one foot raise alternating with the other for 20 counts. A light exercise is the inclined push-up, using a table or chair as the fixed point with counts of 50.

Yeah it is a simple way to burn calories especially when we do it regularly and repetitively.Nice form of exercise and work out that we could do just at home too.

I understand that climbing up stairs can burn calories, but I don´t know if I will be able to do it as my knees hurt. I´m beginning to walk as a way of exercising. I have been very sedentary for months due to my being on a chemo treatment. That left me with just enough energy to write in my computer.

Wow!!!! climbing stairs means reduce the calories but I not like this way to reduce the calories not like this type of exercise because feel tired while climbing the stairs.

I'm not sure where you got your info from. I burn 10 calories per floor when I run up the stairs, four floors would be only 40 cal. I weigh 165 pounds so even assuming our 17 pound difference you wouldn't lose 100 cal for 4 floors. It is fantastic though. You can walk fast up two flights of stair a minute and burn 20 calories but walking fast on the flat for a minute only uses 4-5 calories. So if you can manage to run up and down the stairs for 20 minutes its equivalent to a 40-50 minute walk. I've been sneaking runs up the stairs at work to help me lose weight, I'm aiming at 150. Every time I leave my office for anything (about 3-4 times a day) I make sure I run up the 5 flights we have and back. No-one misses me for the 3 minutes I'm gone but I'm adding a 180-240 cal workout into each work day. If I had stairs at home I'd be using them each night. I'd like to know if you did manage to lose the 3 pounds and if the stairs made any difference.