Can climbing stairs help you lose weight?

For women, losing weight is a lifelong struggle. Many female friends go on a diet, go to the gym to exercise, or go out for a run after a hard day's work to lose weight. Over time, the body may not be able to bear it. In fact, you can achieve the effect of losing weight by giving up the elevator and climbing the stairs when going to work or going home from get off work every day. Some people do not believe this method, so let me give you a detailed introduction below.

Climbing stairs is a very common form of exercise and it also has a very obvious effect on weight loss: according to sports medicine experts, the calories consumed by a person for every meter of height climbed is equivalent to walking 28 meters. The energy consumed is 1000 kcal/hour, which is 10 times that of sitting still, 5 times that of walking, 1.8 times that of running, 2 times that of swimming, 1.3 times that of playing table tennis, and 1.4 times that of playing tennis. If you run up and down the six-story stairs 2-3 times, it is equivalent to jogging 800-1500 meters on flat ground.

Researchers at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland asked a group of women who worked in offices and rarely exercised to start by climbing 200 steps once a day, and then progress to climbing six times a day (they could take the elevator downstairs), each time for two minutes. In other words, each woman only needs to exercise for 12 minutes a day. In less than 2 months, this group of women found that their figures had improved a lot.

When climbing stairs, the body must lean forward slightly, including swinging the hands and taking steps, which can strengthen the strength of the lower limb muscles and ligaments, maintain the flexibility of the lower foot joints, and enhance the function of internal organs. Whenever you climb stairs, your breathing rate and pulse rate will undoubtedly speed up, which is excellent for enhancing human breathing and strengthening the function of the heart and vascular system.

From the content introduction, we can see that climbing stairs has an obvious weight loss effect, and it is more suitable for friends who have fat in the lower body and need to lose weight. You can cleverly use this time difference to do weight loss exercises. However, it should be noted that you need to wear sports shoes when climbing stairs during commuting. Wearing high heels and climbing stairs can easily cause sprains.