For gentle readers who have no time to get to the health club they can’t afford to belong to, a new study conducted at the University Hospital in Geneva has some welcome advice: take the stairs. The Scientific American reports that researchers studied 69 employees of the university with a sedentary lifestyle,
defined as less than two hours of exercise a week and fewer than 10
flights of stairs climbed a day. After not using elevators for 12 weeks, they increased their use of
stairs to an average of 23 stories ascended or descended a day from
five before, with a resulting sharp increase in fitness levels.
Read more in the Scientific American.
Thanks for the reference. It would be wonderful if true. It’s noon time and I have already done 10 flights, so a goal of 25 flights a day is within easy reach. Maybe I’ll feel less guilty about my idle treadmill as I wait for autumn to return to Arizona and the beginning og the hilking season.
Bill