Stair Exercises: Running Up & Down

Video Transcript

"This exercise is running up and down and we're going to utilize the stairs or the steps within the houses that we have, front porch, back porch, anywhere you can find steps you can do this. Now this is a great exercise you can use as a warm up for your other in home exercises or you can do this as a cardio exercise in and of itself so if you are going to utilize it as cardio do it for about five minutes and then you can do some other exercises as well for cardio. Simply put running up and down, start off with a basic step so you bring your whole foot to the center of the step, up, up, down, down, up, up, down, down. Now when you feel comfortable with this you can start to run, up, up, down, down. So you can perform about a minute on one side and then switch to your other foot. Now you can do just one step or you can run all the way up your stair case, turn around and run all the way down just like if you were running stadium steps. So that is running up and down on your stairs."