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people use stair climbing as a regular part of their cardiovascular or interval training exercise routine. This type of exercise burns fat faster and stimulates your metabolism. But did you know that you can also lose belly fat with stair climbing ? And it doesn’t even have to involve going to the gym or an expensive treadmill machine. In the video Lose Belly Fat with Stair Climbing you can learn several alternatives to the boring old treadmill machine in your home.
Stair climbing is one of the most accessible exercise routines available to busy people. It is not only effective, but stairs can be found just about anywhere, from homes to offices, from parks to schools. You can use stair climbing to lose belly fat anywhere you happen to be. The most common method of stair climbing outside of the exercise room is to run up and down steps or bleachers. However, if you really want to pump up the volume on your stair climbing routine and lose that ugly belly fat faster try these five stair climbing exercises.
Lunge Stair Climbing : Take a big step to the next highest step in front of you, lunge down and then up bringing hands up to chest level, elbows bent. Lunge and climb, lunge and climb. Cross Lunge Stair Climbing : Cross your right foot over the left side of your body as you climb. Bend knee to lunge. Then alternate, with your left foot over the right side of your body. This exercise not only helps lose belly fat, but works the outer hips also.
Wide Lunge Stair Climbing : With this exercise you get two areas of the body for the price of one. Not only can you lose belly fat, but work your inner thighs also. Step wide to the right, climbing, bend and lunge. Then step wide to the left, climbing, bend and lunge.
Side Lunge Stair Climbing: Stand side ways and lifting one foot take a wide step to the next step bend and lunge to the side moving up, feet together and repeat.
Jump Stair Climbing: This exercise is more advanced, is considered a power movement. It really gets the heart rate up and there is an increase in impact to the knees. To do this exercise stand on lower step, feet shoulder width apart, bend at knees and jump to the next step.
It is important to work your body at different angles ; this not only boosts your
metabolism, increases your strength but also provides a depth to your exercise routine and builds leaner muscle in several problem areas at one time. Using stair climbing exercises such as these will provide you with many benefits to your exercise routine including : they are easy to do, they are inexpensive, the can be done anywhere, they increase both your
heart rate, metabolism and exercise all angles of your body. Most importantly the help you lose that hard to lose belly fat building leaner muscle that looks great in anything from a business suit to a swim suit.
by Scott Colby
