Stair Climber Machine

Start

Finish

How to do it

Stand tall on the stepper with the hands resting lightly on the rails, step onto the whole foot and push through the heel on each step, keeping the hips underneath you rather than hanging back.

Muscles worked

Primary: full · Also works: glutes, quads, calves

Equipment

Machines

Common mistakes

• Leaning the forearms onto the console and taking half your bodyweight off the legs
• Stepping on the toes only, which loads the calves and lets the glutes off the hook
• Setting a speed so high you have to take tiny, shallow steps to keep up

Variations

• Skip a step every other stride for more glute range
• 20 minutes steady at a conversational pace
• One minute fast, one minute slow for ten rounds

Can't do this one? Swap it for

• Stair Climb Interval
• Incline Walk
• Elliptical Interval
• High Step-Up

Take care: ABROFIT automatically removes this movement for anyone who has flagged a knee problem. If that's you, use one of the swaps above and speak to a physio before loading it.

Related exercises

• Burpeefull
• Jumping Jackfull
• Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar)full
• World's Greatest Stretchfull
• Shadow Boxing — Combinationsfull
• Heavy Bag Roundsfull