Comment posted Running Stairs For Fat Loss by UpNorth-Yukon.
Find 20 -30 steps your say? My set of steps here are called the Black Street Steps. There are 220 steps, yikes. I recently had a bet with a buddy that I could not get my lard arse up and down 10 times in one hour. I did it in 47:52 and the eleventh in 52 something…then I almost died. Yep steps are tough. So now the new bet is I can’t do it 15 times in one hour. I think my buddy has taken out a life insurance policy on me!! Does anyone have a suggestion for a good training that I can work on so I can destroy these steps on February 4, 2011. By the way I’m 61years old.
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Hi, You look great! I just happen to be clicking around looking at different blogs. I have just started my weight loss journey. I am using Curves for the start of my program but do you have any suggestions as food diets. They all say they work.
Hi Lisa, Thanks.
Food diets? it depends on what it is that you want actually. I am in the first 1/4 of developing a 12 week program introducing people to whole foods that I’d love to tell you about (in about 8 more weeks, lol)
I’d say join the weight loss forum and have a snoop around there.
Stair running has been around for a long time, but I don’t hear much about it anymore. I remember my brother used to run stairs in the stadium when he was on the football and track teams — it was good conditioning for both sports. I’ve come a long way but it’s definitely not something I’m ready for yet!
Can’t agree more.
Stairs kick ass! I regularly do HIIT-style (High Intensity Interval Training) workouts as an alternative to my regular cardio. I either run a few times up and down this hill nearby OR I run the stairs in a nearby building which is 20 floors.
Both of them are brutal when you give yourself 100%. The workout doesn’t really last longer than 5 minutes, but the afterburn is a killer.
Another good HIIT method, which focuses less on the ASS and more on the arms and pecs, is the rowing machine (or whatever it’s called… English is not my native language). This machine definitely gets your heart rate up as well!
Good you luck with your program.
Greetings
Former fat guy, you are truly an inspiration
For those of us who travel alot, using the hotel steps if a gym is not readily available is such a viable option
Thanks, yes, and to do a set of pushups at each landing or two while running stairs in the hotel stairwell is a good idea too.
I just got back from my first stair climbing/running in a few years after reading your blog. Thanks for the helpful tips and good luck with your training. Wow! Everest!
@Carrie – awesome. Yep, Everest (base camp anyway). Successfully got there all healthy and well (except for a nagging cough from altitude).
Next up is Aconcagua in Jan of 2012. Gotta start training for that now
Find 20 -30 steps your say? My set of steps here are called the Black Street Steps. There are 220 steps, yikes. I recently had a bet with a buddy that I could not get my lard arse up and down 10 times in one hour. I did it in 47:52 and the eleventh in 52 something…then I almost died. Yep steps are tough. So now the new bet is I can’t do it 15 times in one hour. I think my buddy has taken out a life insurance policy on me!! Does anyone have a suggestion for a good training that I can work on so I can destroy these steps on February 4, 2011. By the way I’m 61years old.
I’ve been weightlifting for a few years (only 17 years old), and I can’t seem to get that six-pack. I do plenty of ab workouts, about 3 times a week (P90X’s Ab Ripper X), but I can’t shed that layer of fat that’s right over my 6-pack! Will running stairs burn away that abdomonal fat, and also not lose the muscle I’ve acquired? Thanks
I have recently discovered stair running and it beats the heck out of my previous, boring Arc Trainer routine. I used to sit on that thing for 60 minutes a day, 6 days a week, and it did help me lose weight, but it’s just too steady and boring for me. I decided to run on my campus and while running, I started running to the tops of a bunch or random stairwells on campus, whether it was a parking garage or a dorm building or even a classroom building. After every ten flights of stairs I would do ab exercises or pushups. I continued this routine until I had reached 80 flights up and down. All I can say it WOW! My heart was pounding and I was so exhausted afterwards, but it’s totally worth it. I feel great now and my legs are getting more muscle tone!
I really enjoyed coming across your blog today:) I’ve been running the Glenora stairs for a few years now… Sooo taxing on the body, but you’re right about the ass! Haha… When I’m running/walking/jumping them I know if I can just push myself there I can wake up the next morning and really feel my hard work!
To UpNorthYukon… Have you tried nit running up the steps, but hopping sideways one at a time? Pop squatting stair by stair? Inspiring to hear you’re doing so well at 61!!!
To Jake… What is your diet like? You are still pretty young, but how much and what kind of protein are you taking in?
I know just the stairs up to my apartment kick my BUTT! Especially when I have a baby on one hip and groceries on the other!
Back when I played lacrosse running stairs were the worse part of our practice. I dreaded it. lol. It is very effective though. I think I need to get back to it.
I totally agree the best way to run in up some stairs or a hill. I think interval training is a great workout routine as well.
I’ve recently switched running every second day to running up stairs every day. The first 2 weeks were tough, now I can run further on land than I could before!
I like that idea about the running on the stairs..,
the running on the flat service is quite boring…
Running stairs and uphill is really good workout for the but and legs.., flat running cant do the same…
Not to mention that the stress on the joints is not as much.!
The best way to loss your fat . Do exercise everyday early in the morning.