Use the stairs

When it comes to weight loss, a lot of it is gen­er­ally com­mon sense. Typ­i­cally that means that any kind of exer­cise is good while eat­ing take­away and food that is gen­er­ally fatty in con­tent and has a bad rep­u­ta­tion such as pizza and burg­ers is bad.

One of the things you would assume is com­mon sense though that is typ­i­cally ignored is the stairs. Now, I’m not say­ing that its pur­posely ignored but on a day to day basis you would use the stairs (assum­ing you have any) to go to lets say your bed­room or even the bath­room if your not lucky enough to have on down stairs and nat­u­rally you just don’t give your stairs another thought as an exer­cise platform.

Note though how­ever that a lot of peo­ple actu­ally don’t have stairs (nat­u­rally those in bun­ga­lows) and that is par­tic­u­larly com­mon in Aus­tralia and a vari­ety of other coun­tries where houses are not built to save space like the ter­race hous­ing scenery of Great Britain. This means that although you cant use the stairs in your house you can still put this into prac­tice at other places you visit such as shop­ping cen­ters, hotels, work, schools and any­where else that even remotely has steps of some kind.

Although the stairs doesn’t con­tribute a huge amount and wont make you an overnight weight loss phe­nom­e­non it will con­tribute over­all and gives you the piece of mind that you can eat that cake or drink that soft drink as you know you have worked it off with your stairs climbing.

Typ­i­cally (and im not sure exactly how accu­rate this is) you will burn just over three hun­dred calo­ries for every thirty min­utes of stairs climb­ing you do. This might sound like a lot but if you live in a house with stairs you prob­a­bly spend a good minute a day going up and down them so even after a month of gen­eral house usage you’ve burnt off enough calo­ries to go and drink three tins of coca­cola, or if you want to drink more feel free to drink a few hun­dred tins of diet coca cola clock­ing in at only one calo­rie a tin.

So there you have it, by avoid­ing the esca­la­tor or lift and instead forc­ing your self to take the more tedious staired option you could guilt free enjoy your self a snack once a month.

Enjoy your stair climbing.

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