Whats the most energy efficient way to climb stairs? Two at a time?
411286
It doesn't matter...you require the same kinetic energy to climb one or two at a time....and you gain the same potential energy just by increasing your height.\n\nBy swinging your arms you would not use less energy because you would be required to USE energy to maintain the motion....thus cancelling out the energy gained by momentum.
131596
Does a single story house have a stair?
141191
If your doctor recommends that you exercise and get some cardio exercise than climbing stairs is a good exercise.  Just be aware of your body.  If you start to get really tired, or feel dehydrated, get off the next floor and take the elevator.  Getting your heart pumping should be good for you.. your body needs it, but I would talk to your doctor about it if you're concerned.
251678
Stairs down do count but they work different musceles
1041943
theres always the remote control finger workout, or the 'see how far you can strech to reach stuff without actually getting up' with practice you can get yourself almost horizontal before you fall over, and seeing how much you can carry in one go so you dont have to make two trips, picking up stuff with your feet so you dont have to bend(good strong toes and balance) the list is endless!
301142
Pretend not to notice and get off at the very next floor, whether it's the right one or not. Taking the stairs is good exercise and stairwells are usually empty, in case I need to let off a few more.
321344
hello..\nif u use a step on the stairs put the front of your feet on the edge and go up and down ...for different difficulties go really slowly for the strength...then you can move on to doing in on one leg..this exercises also raises the arches of your feet which make s you faster at running...this exercise is mainly used by dancers :P\nraises are really good and you can vary them by doing them quickly and lots of slowly...then again move on to doing them on one leg..skipping is a good way of building all leg muscles...squats improve you quads...\nif you visit www.dance.net and then click on advice the strenghtening they have exercises for strenghtening evry muscle in th body..\nsearch on the internet for strenghtening for teens and there should be a site which i don't remeber name which includes pictures aswell\nbreathing during exercise is really important as it brings all the oxygen around your body..\nremember to strectch before and after exercises..\nxx
485004
Gotta B walking my Dog.\nLaugh a minute & good excerise 2!
679112
A great excercise that you can do if you have stairs at home, is the calf lift.  Place your toes at the edge of the stair and lift up on your toes and then sink your heels past the stairs.  Lift up and down.  These excercises are great and can tone calfs beautifully.  Do high repititions daily and it only takes 5 minutes a day.\n\nHave fun, and good luck.
1096877
Try using the stairs and the bicycle instead of the elevator or escalator and  the car.\nEat more proteins and complex carbohydrates.\nDrink juice or water instead of soda.\nYou could exercise also.\nI like to exercise at a gym because the other people there inspire me.
1104997
run... actually... treadmill workout: do incline walk for an hour... make sure the incline is all the way to the highest (for the gym i go to 15 is the highest incline) and use 3.5 - 4.0 speed.   then stairmaster and randomize it.  don't do bikes cuz it doesn't do anything.  SO every other day, do stairmaster and the other days, incline walk.  make sure you get one day off though.  good luck!
287607
Stairs in houses usually have between seven and eight inches of rise on each step and 10 to 12 inches of projection (or tread) on each step.  That makes them comfortable to walk up and down.
399417
u fall down the stairs but if u fell up you'd go up the stairs faster
302395
Stair climbing will work in two ways.\n\nFirst, you burn calories, which obviously helps.\n\nSecond, you build muscle tissue in your lower body.  Since the muscle groups in your lower body are the largest, they build up faster.  This is beneficial because for every extra pound of muscle that you add, you will burn about fifty calories per day, even if you don't do squat.\n\nA pound of fat contains about 2000 calories, so if you were to add 5 pounds of muscle, you would burn about one extra pound of fat about every eight days, not considering what you burn from the exercise.\n\nA lot of women are turned off by this idea, thinking that the extra muscle will be too obvious, but since you are working your lower body, it won't be.  Also, keep in mind that muscle is more dense than fat, so even if your weight doesn't change, you will look slimmer by toning up a bit.
567874
walking is the best way....not slow strolling....but brisk walking!!!!!!!!
1112394
Walking and wall push ups.\n\nLC
654801
Do cardio exercise. Walking is fine.