Reason To Take The Stairs.

Stair climbing has been found to be not only beneficial but a great equal when it comes to working out. Most people complain they don't have enough time to fit a workout into their already busy schedules, but new studies show that keeping healthy and active is not as time consuming and painful as most trainers want us to believe. The old adage of "No pain, no gain!" is actually antiquated and to be frank, not beneficial to us at all.

"Researchers at McMaster University say No excuse! to those illusory obstacles. They believe their rese34arch has proven that anyone can boost their fitness and heart health by using what you've got."

"Stair climbing is a form of exercise anyone can do in their own home, after work or during the lunch hour," says Martin Gibala, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster and lead author on the study. "This research takes interval training out of the lab and makes it accessible to everyone."

Much research has continually emphasized on how a minimum of 70 minutes a week for stair climbing was a bare minimum, but all that has changed. A recent experiment was recently done on healthy but sedentary women who got results with simply 30 minutes a week. This form of workout is called sprint interval training (SIT), which is a derivative of the very popular high intensity interval training (HIIT). Every session consists of 10 minutes of both exercise and warm-up, which include brief bursts of vigorous exercise separated by short periods of rest and cool-down.

The first session involves three, 20 second all-out climbing exercises. The second session asked for those individuals to vigorously climb up and done a flight of stairs for 60 seconds.

These two sessions had incredible improved their cardiovascular health in a matter of weeks.

Interval training is a great way to incorporate daily exercise into your busy schedule. Instead of having to organize your day around your workout regime, now you can organize your regime around your day. These are exercise that can be done anywhere and don't require expensive machinery.

Again, the take away message here is, as long as there is movement and an effort to keep your body going, than health is around the corner.