Can climbing stairs help slim your legs?

Yes, but you have to exercise more.

Running stairs to lose weight is a high-calorie aerobic exercise. To persist requires not only the courage to challenge and strong perseverance, but also mastering skilled skills to achieve the effect of burning fat and losing weight with twice the result with half the effort. The real way to slim down your legs by climbing stairs is not to climb them as usual.

First of all, you must correct your posture: straighten your waist, raise your head and chest, and climb two steps one step at a time. And when climbing, use your toes to balance your body, that is, put your toes on the stairs and be careful that your heels don't touch the ground. The action is very simple and has obvious effects, but the key is persistence.

When exercising by climbing stairs, you must first combine it with the actual situation. People with varying degrees of osteoporosis or obesity must control the relationship between speed and duration when climbing stairs. At the beginning, you should do it slowly and persist for a period of time. You can gradually increase the speed or extend the time, but it should not be too intense, otherwise it will increase the burden on the heart and lungs. If you notice discomfort while climbing stairs, you should stop exercising immediately. At the same time, you must master the correct exercise methods. When going downstairs, in order to prevent increased pressure on the knee joints, the front feet should land on the ground first, and then transition to the whole feet on the ground to cushion the pressure on the knee joints. After climbing stairs, you can partially massage the knee joint. It is best to do exercises such as squatting, standing up, and static half-squats regularly to allow the knee joint to fully move and prevent it from becoming stiff and ankylosing.

At the beginning of exercise, the principle of slow exercise should be adopted. After exercising for a period of time (usually at least 2 to 3 months), you can gradually increase the speed or extend the time, but it should not be too intense, otherwise it will increase the burden on the heart and lungs. If you experience chest tightness, palpitations, profuse sweating, worsening joint pain, or even joint swelling and discomfort during exercise, you should stop exercising immediately.

Here is another reminder: People with old injuries to their lower limbs, hips, knees, ankles and other joints (for example, fractures and major ligament ruptures within two years) should exercise caution when climbing stairs. To master the correct exercise method. Because at this time, the strength and coordination of the muscles of both lower limbs will be weakened to varying degrees. Once a person falls, rolls off, or sprains, the consequences of repeated injuries are often more serious, which is common in orthopedic clinical practice.

When going downstairs, in order to prevent falling, you should land on the soles of your feet first, and then transition to landing on the soles of your feet to cushion the pressure on the knee joints. Before exercising, warm-up activities should be carried out for the knee and ankle joints to avoid uncoordinated joint activities. It is best to do exercises such as squatting and standing regularly to allow the joints to fully move and prevent them from becoming stiff and stiff at the beginning of the exercise. This is what people often say: "running water does not rot, and door hinges do not become beetles".