Originally Posted by
chelvel
Ok. By "warm up" I mean different thing. Not training, but starting slowly in each attempt. May be HR monitor will be useful for that.
BTW when we were kids we run 400 steps trying to get to the tenth floor before elevator... Going down was normal and much faster.
Now I see 1307 steps up as a broken elevator in 30-story building. I hate even think about it.
I'd never suggest running the stairs. You've got to plod very slowly at first, then later you might pick up the pace a bit. But I try to avoid running stairs.
And there's a little trick to doing higher numbers of stairs, like when I was doing 40 flights of 20 steps a day ...
In my building, there are 10 steps, then a landing, 10 steps and the landing for the next floor, and repeat 10 times. So I walk 10 steps, then take 3 or 4 steps on the landing, then 10 steps up, 3 or 4 steps on the landing, etc. I find taking my time a little bit on the landing means I can breathe all the way up.
Going down, it's not a bad idea to pause and stretch a little every 5 flights or so.