Use Stairs, not lifts!
The easiest way to start and keep healthy without signing up to the gym. Climbing stairs rather than riding the escalator or elevator is a great activity to build into your day. Indeed, stair climbing challenges more muscles than standing and level walking!
Benefits of Stair Climbing
• Requires no specific equipment to climb.
• 30 minutes of stair climbing can be incorporated anytime during the day.
• Helps develop a healthy habit.
• Aerobic capacity increases which leads to a healthier and more effective heart, lungs and blood vessels.
• Reduces the cholesterol levels and maintains a good level balance in the body.
• Can reduce the risk of osteoarthritis that primarily affects the knees and hip.
• Boosts your attitude, mood and confidence.
• Increases the gland secretions of wellbeing hormones.
• Helps improving and providing more energy to perform activities.
• Helps you lead an active and independent life by strengthening your muscle and heart capacities.
• Helps tone the muscles.
• Puts less pressure on the joints than running or jogging on concrete surfaces.
• Getting more active and mobile in general will improve your health drastically!
Guidelines for Stair Climbing
• Breathe!
• Stair climbing may sound easy but it is not. You should not take the support of the railings situated on the sides of the stairs. This will put a pressure on the body to support itself. Grasping for support can also lead to wrist or elbow strain or injury.
• You should not bend forward while climbing as it can strain your lower back. Maintain a straight posture and attitude.
• Frequency, intensity and time are also very important for taking stair climbing as a serious aerobic exercise. Ensure that you start slowly and steadily and increase the intensity.
• Get used to it and it will become spontaneous!
“Every Step Counts: or Why Taking the Stairs Will Improve and Prolong Your Life (The Value of Non Exercise Physical Activity)”
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