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I can do the stair master for a 45-60 mins. Level 2-4.
1 posted on 06/12/2025 5:09:14 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Try Kingdom’s Dome in the Smokey Mountain park in TN.

I’ve seen super fit people come down (which is harder than going up) wheezing and huffing.


2 posted on 06/12/2025 5:12:01 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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Every year, on my birthday, I see if I can go two stairs at a time. I’m 65 and still can do it.


4 posted on 06/12/2025 5:14:08 PM PDT by roving
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I agree with their theory. The ability to do 50 stair steps a day certainly would improve ones health outlook.

We live in the hills, always up one hill and down the next. We are currently on a fencing project that requires much walking. And I can do it. It’s not stair steps, but it is going up steep inclines.

I never bought into this BS where retired people should just kick back and take it easy.


6 posted on 06/12/2025 5:16:30 PM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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I’m gonna get one of those condos in an Italian hilltop town. That’ll be lots of steps every day.


7 posted on 06/12/2025 5:19:06 PM PDT by glorgau
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There are two sets of stairs to get to and from my office at work and I always use them instead of the elevator.


8 posted on 06/12/2025 5:19:48 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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I’m almost 78. Haven’t been in peak shape in years, but I can walking up three flights of stairs without being out of breath, and can do the same carrying heavy bags. As my father used to say, I’m in good shape for the shape that I’m in. Never smoked, although everyone else in my family did. Three of them died of lung cancer, one of a massive heart attack at 51, and the last a stroke at age 74. I’ve outlived them all. Nobody lived past 74 before me.


10 posted on 06/12/2025 5:27:28 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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I used to run up 5 flights of stairs at work until Work Karens said to stop.


11 posted on 06/12/2025 5:27:37 PM PDT by Zathras
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I climb stairs for about 20 minutes six days a week or so. In the second half of the climb. I go forwards and backwards.


12 posted on 06/12/2025 5:33:35 PM PDT by ckilmer
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How about falling down fifty steps without stopping and getting up to walk away? That would be impressive fitness also.


14 posted on 06/12/2025 5:36:17 PM PDT by sopo
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As long as my car can do the work, I’m good. And, needless to say, my car is NOT union-built.


16 posted on 06/12/2025 5:40:43 PM PDT by BobL
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A typical run of stairs is 10’ per 8’ ceiling for each floors. A typical stair height is 7.5”. That totals 16 stairs per floor, not 10. 10 steps would be 12” high, quite a challenge. Five flights of stairs would total 80 steps, not 50.


18 posted on 06/12/2025 5:54:07 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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Unfair. My knees have been getting bad for over twenty years. I can walk for 45 minutes to an hour a day, I used to exercycle, too, but stairs are painful for me. So I can’t count the exertion level of climbing the steps.


19 posted on 06/12/2025 5:57:41 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Hey Jack, Joe Biden can *fall* up five flights of stairs.


24 posted on 06/12/2025 6:23:57 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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Bump for reference 50 stair steps.


26 posted on 06/12/2025 6:32:36 PM PDT by Robert357
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My doctor was on the 7th floor; I used the stairs.


28 posted on 06/12/2025 6:40:32 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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After two solid years on my IFit cycle training, I’ve been boasting how I’m ready for the Manitou Incline (see Google). Then, just last week, I did 15 steep stairs at an Airbnb. I learned that I am more delusional than in shape.


32 posted on 06/12/2025 6:58:53 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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Climbing up — no problem. My knees object to coming down, however.


34 posted on 06/12/2025 7:30:24 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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41 posted on 06/12/2025 8:24:37 PM PDT by tech_rjmarce1
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I can do this 4 steps from the deck to our yard twice. 😉


42 posted on 06/12/2025 8:34:01 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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I stair master for 5 minutes on level 7. I count about 400 stair steps, or 40 flights.

Then I do 5 minutes each on recumbent bike, hand and arm cardio machine, elliptical, sit up bike.

That’s after 75 minutes on 23 weight machines and 15 minutes of stretching.


43 posted on 06/12/2025 8:45:13 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 62, Hadith 88: Mohammed consummated the marriage when she was 9 and he was 54)
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