Due to the busy work and the accelerated pace of life, many people give up exercise. But climbing stairs is a new way to keep fit. Especially in middle age, because the activity is relatively reduced, if people can often go up and down stairs, they can enhance the blood flow of coronary arteries and help prevent coronary heart disease.

Speaking of it, when climbing stairs, his body will inevitably lean forward slightly, including the swinging of his hands and striding, thus enhancing the strength of muscles and ligaments of lower limbs, maintaining the flexibility of joints of lower limbs and enhancing the function of internal organs. Whenever climbing stairs, its breathing frequency and pulse frequency will undoubtedly accelerate, which has an excellent promotion effect on enhancing human breathing and strengthening the functions of the heart and vascular system.

Don't you know that since 1978, the United States has held a stair climbing competition in the Empire State Building, a 449-meter-high skyscraper in new york * * 102 every year, and even the 62-year-old man is willing to participate. Its best result has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. No wonder some people abroad have long called the beneficial activity of climbing stairs "the king of sports".

According to the measurement of the sports doctor, the heat consumed by climbing 1 m is equivalent to walking 28 meters. Its energy consumption is 10 times that of sitting, 5 times that of walking, 2 times that of running, 2 times that of swimming, 3 times that of playing table tennis and 0.4 times that of playing tennis. If you run up and down the stairs on the 6th floor for 2-3 times, it is equivalent to jogging on the flat ground for 800- 1500m.

It can be seen that the strength of climbing stairs is greater. Only by climbing stairs to exercise, perseverance is important, and it can be effective. Climbing stairs is like climbing a mountain, and it does have excellent fitness functions. If you can often engage in rock climbing activities, you should say that you are very lucky. However, not everyone has such excellent exercise conditions. However, if you are lucky enough to move to a new building, you can experience living in a tall building and climbing stairs, which is really a simple exercise method for living at home. Interestingly, the life span of the elderly can be extended by 4 seconds for every flight of stairs. If an elderly person climbs 5,000 flights of stairs every week, or climbs 7 14 flights of stairs every day, which is equivalent to going up and down the sixth floor three times, then every 30 years of extra life can be extended 1 year. No wonder "stair climbing fever" has sprung up all over the world in recent years.

For women, climbing stairs is a simple and feasible way to lose weight. A woman weighing 40 kilograms consumes 200 calories when she goes up stairs 10 minute, and the calories consumed when she goes down stairs are just 1/3 of those who go up stairs. Usually, when she goes up the stairs, her calories are four times more than when she usually walks, and 29% more than when she runs in the morning. If a fat woman lives on the third floor and goes up and down the stairs 5-6 times a day, she can lose 3 kilograms a year. It seems that climbing stairs also helps to prevent obesity.

An American lady always drives to work in the garage every day. Then get on the elevator as soon as you get there and never go outside the workshop again. Later, in order to try her best to remedy the lack of exercise, she began to consciously leave the elevator from two floors below the workshop, so that she could climb the stairs every morning and noon to walk the rest of the distance. Unexpectedly, she finally received the expected effect of losing weight, beauty and fitness. It can be seen that climbing stairs is really wise for obese people.