Our Homeschool Reviews: The Stair Climber

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The Stair Climber

I've been blogging about my experience for the past several weeks on the YMCA's cardio classes. Today I thought I would talk about one of the machines I tried out for the first time last week. The Stair Climber. Well, I guess it is called a stair climber. It's that machine with the stairs that you climb. ;)

I never used it before so I thought I would try it out. I was only on it for about 3 minutes before I started huffing and puffing. I seriously didn't think I would make it to 10 minutes. All you have to do is *think* about climbing stairs for a few minutes to know what I'm talking about. I was out of breath quick! Somehow I made it to 20 minutes though, which was about 70 flights of stairs!!

Between the stair climber, treadmill, and elliptical, I would have to say the stair climber is the hardest. And no way did I only burn as many calories as the elliptical (like it said). It said I only burned around 200 but I was sweating way more and completely out of breath. I'm not sure how those machines calculate calories burned but I would have to disagree.

Today I jogged/ran on the treadmill for 23 minutes and tomorrow I'll be back in the Body Pump class.

Next time I plan to talk about diet...because apparently diet and exercise need to go hand in hand. Who would have thought?!