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StairMaster
No matter how fast or slow you take ’em, stairs provide classic interval training in its purest form: High-intensity ascents followed by lower-intensity descents. You know that breathless, everything-is-burning feeling? That’s your muscles getting a workout and giving a little shove to your metabolism… which means your body keeps burning calories for a bit, even after you’ve stopped moving. Hello, win-win!
LESS IS MORE. Thanks to the built-in elevation gain, stair workouts can pack more calorie-burning power into a shorter time period than walking or running on flat land. What’s more, the natural lunging motion of stepping up helps shape the glutes, quads, and hamstrings as they work together to move you toward the summit. To ramp up the cardiovascular challenge, simply increase your speed; to boost your workout’s sculpting power, take steps two-at-a-time. And the icing on this so-worth-it workout cake? Your core is always engaged to keep you balanced on the uneven surface—a 100% crunch-free way to score a flatter tummy.
SOURCES:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/28932-stair-exercise-benefits/
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/interval-training/SM00110/
http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/anaerobic.threshold.html
