Step ups easy way to fitness

Author: A Sharma
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You squat heavy and lunge with weights, but running up a couple of flights of stairs tires you out? You run 4-5 k but walking up a few flights of steps makes you feel like you been through a completely different and complete workout?

Well than you are right climbing stairs is one of the best exercises when you are aiming pure fat burn, toning the butt, lower body strengthening, toning calves, thighs, building great abs, losing inches from those love handles. With these benefits It is good for your lungs and cardiovascular system.

This workout will challenge your body endurance and actual strength Best thing about it is that it is  totally free and just about all of us can get access to a set of stairs.

• It leverages gravity and the heavier we are, the harder we’re forced to work and the more calories we burn.
• It is a relatively intense exercise that quickly increases our heart rate and in doing so can greatly improve our cardiovascular fitness.
• It helps strengthen and shape our most common problem areas like calves, thighs, buttocks and tummy.
• With limited time to workout it is an efficient way to burn calories and burn fat quickly using proper technique it is low impact on the knees also.
• You can mix it with other workouts, like walking, running and weight training, to maximize results and stair climbing workouts are easy to build progression into and it also helps build bone strength because it is weight bearing.

Quality over quantity is the mantra with this exercise Instead of fixing one hour work out in your mind and avoiding it because you don’t have one hour. You can burn more Calories and fat by running or walking up steps for good 30 minutes rather than hours of walk or running.

You Aim for power workouts, 25 to 30 mins max, where you max out your reps, burn those muscles and really get your heart rate up. 35 to 40 minutes should include a great warm up and an extremely important cool down.Start with a couple of flights, Walking and running slowly. As you get better, run and then skip few steps at a time and run or walk.It will raise your heart rate immediately thus maximizing your cardio benefits and it is also a great way to amp your core muscle strength.It engages body’s largest muscle groups to repeatedly lift your body weight up, step after step and engages every major muscle in your lower body glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, abs and calves to exercise and thus tones and sculpts your body better.

Just a few stairs everyday will give you a good workout and you don’t have to sweat it out while climbing stairs and with that comes safety never try or actually rundown the stairs it doesn’t do any good.

Start doing this regularly and soon, you will be running up flights of stairs, feeling fitter, younger, stronger and leaner.