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I have heard A LOT of mixed contriversary on stairs for cardio. Do you think stairs fatigue you too much compared to bike, incline treadmill, or elliptical? Thoughts and opinions? Favorite form of cardio?
Same, I feel like my legs are constantly flat as fuck. Legs every 4th day and stairs 25 minutes 7x a week right now.Stairs eat my legs up when I'm dieting, I haven't touched them in years. About 70% of my cardio is walking outside and 30% is on an elliptical after my workout.
My coach loves them too, as do I! There is a method to the madness as they say. I would imagine stairs would strenthen your legs somewhat. My flatness is most likely due to hitting them so hard, so often right nowAlex azarian (RIP) would not let me do anything but stairs…BUT my legs are one of my strongest body parts….idk if that factored into it, or he was just a sick mean individual.
You can adapt to anything, I run 4-5 miles or bike 20-30 miles the day before legs sometimes and be ok, but it took 2-3 weeks before performance didn’t suffer.
Do both! 20 minutes stairs, finish the last 15-20 walking.
Also, if your a fucjing tank like @danieltx or @TheOtherOne55, stairs is probably fucking dumb and more like HIT.
My coach loves them too, as do I! There is a method to the madness as they say. I would imagine stairs would strenthen your legs somewhat. My flatness is most likely due to hitting them so hard, so often right now