Happy Fitness Tuesday everyone! Since I started working out years ago especially these past 7 ½ months when I have been working out more than I ever have in my life one of the machines I rarely used in the gym was the stairmaster. My mom always told me she was taking the stairs at her office building just like Cary Grant :-). If you don’t know who that is please google him right now! Anyways so I thought I’d do my own experiment deciding between the actual stairs vs the stairmaster. I did the stairmaster twice a week for 2 weeks for about 20 minutes or and then after that I took one week off then for 2 weeks I used the actual stairs twice a week for about 20 minutes as well. While on the stairmaster it was helpful that there was a tv in front of me, but I noticed that I was actually climbing more flights of stairs then I realized. On a stairmaster the stairs are all pretty average height and distance from each other vs say my buildings stairs where they are a bit larger than normal. When I took the stairs in my building (Don’t worry I didn’t too many) I felt more out of breathe and just overall more exhausted after doing them. I also didn’t do as many as I did when I was in the gym, but I did notice a change in my legs and other places more so after I was using the actual stairs vs when I was using the stairmaster. I also noticed that I was more concerned about my form while using the actual stairs vs when I was on the stairmaster. After doing all of this I decided that I prefer doing the actual stairs even if I wasn’t doing as my flights of stairs in my actual stairwell to my building I just feel like I am getting a better work out by doing that vs the stairmaster. Have any of you noticed this as well? Comment in the comments section below and let me know!
Happy Tuesday Everyone!
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