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Thanks for the tutorial! This is the exact same company and model stair climber at my gym and I felt dumb not knowing how to use it. Cleared up everything.
This is one of the best videos on how to use equipment out there. Please keep making more of these. It's so hard to fine people who tell you simple things like where to put your feet, but if you don't know you can do it wrong and hurt yourself. You're a great teacher.
This the best way to burn fat period with the amount of stress on your joints. I have been doing this since I was 17, and nothing compares. It is the only machine in the gym that gives me a full body workout. I use to be able to go 4.7miles in 30 minutes and burn like 1000 calories. I am getting older but still can do about 4 miles in 30 minutes and burn about 850 calories. At the gym, I am pretty much the only one who is using this machine and those who attempt look like fools as they drape themselves all over the machine trying to keep up with me (I hate competitive gym goers, just do your own thing.) I would fully recommend this machine for someone with a busy schedule and want the hardest workout available with limited time. I am literally the only person in the gym sweating bullets and breathing rapidly (as if sprinting).
This is first video which explains how to use stairmaster properly. I have got this machine and could not work it out how I supposed to use it. Now I know. Thanks guys. Really appreciate your help.
Nobody knows how to set it for _natural_ step/stair climbing, including this video. You want it set so that you step _upward_ on the topmost step when it up... stepping up _fast_ . If you simply casually step up and ease your body weight on the higher step, and off the lower step, then the top step sinks below your weight. That can be fantastic cardio, but it does not emulate walking up stairs. When you walk up stairs, your higher leg (and it's thigh extensors) push up your entire body weight on its own. And then the next leg. With most step-master use, people are simply smoothly redistributing the downward force between feet/legs. With the the full stairmaster machines the matter is even more deceptive: it gives the illusion that you are walking up an endless staircase. It's great cardio, especially at the higher speeds. But the higher speeds paradoxically further defeat the natural staircase stepping dynamic.
I tried one of these and was like 'I don't understand how this is even exercise, gravity does all the work, I can turn it up to max and it's still effortless cos my weight just pushes it down'. Now it makes a bit more sense.
Thanks so much for this video. I recently tried the one we have at my local gym and was totally clueless on how to work this thing. Will gladly give it another try. Thanks again!
ahh thanks, I tried the stairmaster at the gym today but couldn't get the hang of it, it felt kinda weird and there was no one around to ask. So this vid helped and I'll try again tomorrow morning and keep at it!
Watched this because my back kept getting sore on this but now I’m realising it’s because the intensity was too high causing me to pound my feet. Will definitely be lowering the intensity because NEVER sacrifice form! Thanks a lot for this :)
Thank you! I wanted to buy a stair master and really can't afford to buy the staircase type. This one is affordable and I'm glad you made this video because now know how to use it.
Thank you for this video. My college has this same machine and it killed me today with only ten min. I'm glad I was doing it right though. Your video reassured me
Thanks for great video for the older stairmaster!! I couldn't figure out how to use one we have in our free gym at work :D I will definitely try again, especially when the only elliptical is unavailable.
I have the much older StairMaster PT4000 which is in very good condition and gives me a great workout with no need for me to go to the gym anymore. For me workouts I use the StairMaster, Resistance Bands and press-ups and find that gives me all the cardio I require as well as keeping my body toned. I also have a Dip and Pull- up station for the all important pull-ups for the upper back - lats area. At 69 years old thats all I need. Very good video thanks.
It feels like walking on quick sand or some ratcheting ladder (apart from it's easy to pull your feet up). I think you can vary your stride between small and big steps. There is technically more freedom to do this than with the rolling staircase, although the side and reverse step (I haven't tried this on a rolling staircase) isn't as varied. I find the rolling staircase to be slightly tougher on the calf muscles though.
Great price for this treadmill. Easy to assemble and doesn’t take up much space. If you’re ever in need of a running treadmill then this is your sign to get this amazing product.
thank you!I was trying to figure out how to use it yesterday in the gym,it keep going down and i stop using it immediately.lol.will try again this week in the gym :)
I tried a lot of different machines - treadmill, elliptical, stepper, exercycle, concept rower, water rower. Hiked up a steep mountain stairway in Oahu, Hawaii called Koko Head - my legs were wiped out. Came back home and bought a used Stairmaster 4000PT to get into condition. Best lower body strength / cardio equipment around.
Wouldn't say it builds leg muscle but it certainly firms up existing muscles. Good old fashioned squats is best for building thigh /leg muscles, and remember "ass to the grass or go home" as many of The Greats used to say when performing squats.
So I understand that we should t let the pedals go all the way down or all the way up, right? I have this machine at gym at work but it seems almost impossible to make the pedals go down... I thought the settings were not suitable for my weight (105lbs). But I guess I was approaching it all wrong.
