If you hate to exercise, you might be happy to hear that you\ncan improve your health just by doing a few minutes of stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New research from McMaster University in Canada wanted to\nfind out if short bursts of stair climbing with breaks in between to recover\ncould improve cardiorespiratory fitness. We\u2019re talking about just 10 minutes in\ntotal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study recruited 24 participants, all of whom had\nsedentary lifestyles. Half the group climbed three flights of stairs three\ntimes of day with plenty of rest between each set (one to four hours). The\nother half (the control group) didn\u2019t exercise. This regimen happened three\ntimes a week for six weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The research team found that cardiorespiratory fitness was\nhigher for the stair climbers after the six weeks was over. They were also\nstronger and performed better on a cycling test compared to the sedentary\ngroup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe know that sprint interval training works, but we were a\nbit surprised to see that the stair snacking approach was also effective,\u201d\nexplains Jonathan Little, Ph.D., an assistant professor of kinesiology at the\nUniversity of British Columbia and co-author of the study. \u201cVigorously climbing\na few flights of stairs on your coffee or bathroom break during the day seems\nto be enough to boost fitness in people who are otherwise sedentary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The team refers to these short intervals as \u201cexercise\nsnacks\u201d and points out that they may be especially beneficial to people who\nwork in office towers with stairs or live in apartment buildings. Since the\nstudy participants were young adults, it can be assumed that these short bursts\nof exercise could also help college students who live in dorms with stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The findings of the study were published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and\nMetabolism.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new study found that just 10-minute bursts of stairs can help boost your health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[770,718,953],"class_list":["post-13260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness","tag-exercise","tag-mens-health","tag-stairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}