At a training session a couple of days ago, my trainer and I left the gym and went outside. Close to where we are is a long set of stairs, and the activity that day was to run up the stairs (there were 60 steps; I counted). Run up, come back down, do ten push ups. Then run up, come back down, do 9 push ups. And keep going until the last single push up, which means in total doing 55 push ups and running up those stairs 10 times.
I walked down the stairs not holding onto the rails (I’ve never liked walking downstairs, and hate it even more now), and at one point when I really, really hated my trainer, I remembered a time about a year ago when I was walking up and down stairs with someone watching me. There were only four steps, and I walked up and down them 50 times – five sets of 10. The person watching then was my physio.
And then I thought that running up this set of 60 isn’t that bad, in the scheme of things.
Hello Jenni after your stair training you might like to try 1504 steps in the centre of Sydney next August. It would be a good excuse to raise money for Cushings. Michael
http://www.sydneytowerrunup.com.au/faq.php
By: Michael Durrant on December 21, 2009
at 9:27 pm