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Benefits of Stair Climbing

Benefits of Stair Climbing image: STAIRMASTER 

Stair climbing has a number of advantages for those looking to stay fit and healthy. The StairMaster stair climber allows you to reap the benefits of a regular workout routine without ever leaving your home.

Stair climbing is one of the most effective cardio workouts for those looking to burn calories, tone muscles, build strength, and lose weight. It asks you to lift your entire body weight up repeatedly, and carrying your own weight uphill raises your heart rate immediately, burning a lot more calories than a workout on a flat treadmill or an elliptical machine. The activity combines cardio training and resistance movement, which helps you attain peak exertion faster and reduces the amount of time spent working out. You can burn about 300 calories in 30 minutes, depending on your weight.

Stair climbing, however, is not the most convenient way to exercise, as it can be hard on the knees, it requires the right environment, and does not always fit in well with a person's other activities and schedule. This is where the stair climbing machines can come in very handy.

StairMaster's StepMill 5, launched in 2011, offers users an efficient cardio workout on a revolving staircase with eight steps, each 20 cm high, 23 cm deep and 56 cm wide. The StepMill 5 comes with the motivational Landmark Challenge Program, which allows users to climb a number of landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, and the Taj Mahal. The challenge feature is available with StairMaster's TSE-1/TS-1 Console.

The StepMill 5 is a low-impact machine, allowing you to achieve high efforts while minimizing the stress on the body. You can get a good workout climbing at very low speeds, as moving at 1 mph on the stair climber is equivalent to running at about 6 mph on a flat treadmill. What makes the virtual climber machine particularly practical is that you can do the uphill climb without ever having to descend a flight of stairs, which is much harder on the knees, ankles, and back in terms of impact as it requires you to use your muscles as brakes. Workout on the stair climber is very efficient at getting results as it provides a range of options such as hills, sprints, aerobic training, and interval training, designed to optimize your efforts and keep you motivated to exercise regularly.

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A workout on StepMill 5 requires significant strength and engages all the major muscles in your lower body 120 or more times per minute. The stair climber machine also requires you to maintain balance, which means that your core muscles are always engaged during the workout, allowing you to build endurance and core strength with every step. Exercise on the StepMill 5 also helps tone and sculpt your glutes, calves, hamstrings and quadriceps, as repeating the steps is an effective way to burn fat and build lean muscle. When you apply slight resistance to work the major muscles, this helps increase lean muscle tissue and, as a result, your body's resting metabolic rate increases, which means that you also start burning more calories at rest.

Stair climbing is a very efficient way to increase your cardiovascular endurance. It increases your heart rate and speeds up the oxygen intake of the muscles engaged in the workout. If done regularly, working out on a stair climber reduces the time it takes for oxygen-rich blood to reach the muscles, which results in cardiovascular conditioning and improves your ability to sustain longer periods of physical activities.

Watch the video to see the StepMill 5 in action.

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