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.
Every year, on my birthday, I see if I can go two stairs at a time. I’m 65 and still can do it.
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.
I’m gonna get one of those condos in an Italian hilltop town. That’ll be lots of steps every day.
There are two sets of stairs to get to and from my office at work and I always use them instead of the elevator.
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.
I used to run up 5 flights of stairs at work until Work Karens said to stop.
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.
How about falling down fifty steps without stopping and getting up to walk away? That would be impressive fitness also.
As long as my car can do the work, I’m good. And, needless to say, my car is NOT union-built.
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.
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.
Hey Jack, Joe Biden can *fall* up five flights of stairs.
Bump for reference 50 stair steps.
My doctor was on the 7th floor; I used the stairs.
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.
Climbing up — no problem. My knees object to coming down, however.
<<…lights cigarette…>>
<<<…gets on escalator>>>
I can do this 4 steps from the deck to our yard twice. 😉
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.