Hate Climbing Stairs, Rather You Should Love It For These 5 Reasons

Adults need two hours and 30 minutes a week of moderate-intensity exercise to stay fit, based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's most recent guidelines. You can use common objects in your environment, such as stairs, to achieve the health benefits of aerobic exercise without ever setting foot in a gym. Stair climbing burns more calories than a traditional walk and increases your chance to achieve weight loss.

1. You’ll burn more calories for every minute climbing stairs than you will jogging.

2. Stair climbing produces endorphins the feel good hormone. Now you know why there are people out there addicted to stair racing. The pain and intensity during is rewarded at the end with a rush of endorphins. You’ll feel buggered but you’ll be really happy about it!

3. If you’re doing stairs to lose weight there’s good news in it for you because the heavier you are the more calories you’ll burn.

4. Stair climbing is like a cardio session and light weights class rolled into one. Because your working against gravity and propelling yourself upward you’re using your body weight to build leg strength and the act of stair climbing is a vigorous activity, so you’ll be getting a great cardio workout too. It’s a really efficient workout if you’re after an exercise that delivers good bang for your buck.

5. It’s a myth that taking two stairs at a time burns more calories. Slow and steady wins the race here by burning energy over sustained periods. BUT – it’s more efficient to take two stairs at a time if you’re wanting to get to the end as fast as you can!