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You are here: Home HPRC Blog Take the stairs, not the elevator

Take the stairs, not the elevator

published: 09-06-2010 Journal entry icon

A few minutes a day of stair climbing can improve your cardiovascular health, a recent study finds. A study of sedentary college-aged women who walked 199 stair steps a day the first week, and who worked up to six ascents, or climbs, a day by the sixth week, were significantly more fit (heart rate, oxygen uptake, blood lactate levels and increased HDL) by the end than in the beginning.