Questions tagged [stairs]
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Doing stairs: Detrimental to your knees?
Is there any evidence that walking/running up and down the stairs is bad for your knees? The "folk-logic" being that particularly when you go down the stairs, each time you land, there is more of an impact on your knees (than when you are say…
user8491
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Stairs exercise effect
What muscles am I working on when climbing stairs as an exercise (that's several floors each day)? Do I have to compensate it with another exercise? What effect will be visible after a while?
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Climbing Stairs and Calories Burnt
I climb stairs to work (20 floors) every day . The least amount of work my body is doing my gaining potential energy (P.E) = mgh where m is mass , g is acc. due to gravity and h is height . Assuming every floor is 1 metre high . Mass -> 70kg Work…
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Practice for climbing stairs?
This will sound a little silly but: is there any training I can do for climbing stairs... that does not actually include just climbing them?
I am in terrible shape (yes, I should change that... personal stuff happened), and am really struggling with…
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