Can taking the stairs at work help you burn off excess fat? Let's take a look. Now if you are talking about the politically correct garbage about walking up the stairs, parking your car farther away from the door, and so forth....
This WON'T get those extra 20 pounds or more off your body. If you are currently exercising and use these strategies to help increase your overall calorie burn, however, this can certainly help.
My office/studio, which is set to open soon, is located on the first floor of an old brick school building. The restrooms are located in the basement, which requires me to go down a long flight of stairs to the entrance and then down a shorter set of stairs.
After being there for several hours, I go up and down these stairs several times throughout the day. Glad I'm not on the second floor!
In addition to my normal workouts, this stair climbing adds up at the end of the week, as far as extra calories burned.
Athletes have long done stair workouts as part of their training routines and now fitness bootcamps have incorporated stairs into their fat loss workouts. Taking two steps at a time as you walk or run up the stairs, can be a great exercise for the hips and thighs.
For those of you on the fast track to fat loss, the overall intensity of the workout is going to boost your metabolism and help you burn fat after you are done exercising. Programs like Turbulence Training will help you get the job done.
For others, your overall activity, such as doing a lot of walking all throughout your day, like a mail delivery person, can help burn calories. If this sounds more like your speed, you might want to read my article on Obesity and the Amish in the April portion of my other blog.
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