Do you take the stairs?

This seems to be common "health & fitness" advice from the government, yet I find that I never, ever take the stairs if the lift or the escalator is an option. 

Hell no, I get the lift up 1 floor every day for work to avoid the stairs.
...I do use the stairs for downwards though, does that count?

 
Too risky........At one of my clients offices you actually have to take a "stair safety" course, I kid you not. At the top and bottom of every staircase there is a big sign with the do's and don'ts of stair climbing, I only wish I was taking the p1ss.

We've had a major refit at work, including a new staircase.
Latest H&S advice is to use the stairs to go up, only, and to come down in the lift.
It seems some people going up and others going down simultaneously is too dangerous.
Lol.

Bugger the stairs!! I do my fair share of fitness without having my day engulfed by it

I avoid escalators and lifts if I can, if we are only taliing a floor or two.
 
Obviously if for some reason your days means going up and down floors all the time?

Nah, I train Legs on Sunday and I deadlift on Thursday so for most of the week I have pretty bad DOMS in my legs anyway. F.uck the stairs

Pretty much always if I can - nothing to do with Laziness/energy ,all to do with impatience. I simply hate waiting for lifts , queuing , waiting at traffic lights .... anything like that !

i'll be walking up to the 6th floor in 2 weeks time when i start my cut.

Dr Z


Pretty much always if I can - nothing to do with Laziness/energy ,all to do with impatience. I simply hate waiting for lifts , queuing , waiting at traffic lights .... anything like that !

Same here.
 
Stairs rule.

Despite being a fat knacker yes. Though if i've been training quads or calves remotely hard then for a few days no. Not funny

essex_chris


Despite being a fat knacker yes. Though if i've been training quads or calves remotely hard then for a few days no. Not funny

So taking the stairs is a 365 days a year thing then?

Funny.
 
Maybe 5-10% of the time overall i'd guess i'd actually not be able to

Depends how active I am that day, and what I'm carrying. If staying in a hotel and going to use the gym in the basement, I'll take the stairs as a warm up/training - seems stupid to go do cardio on a machine, then take the lift up the stairs!

I work 5 up, nearly always take the stairs up and down. It annoys the life out of me if I do take the lift and some able bodied person gets in the lift to go one floor, causing my 5 floor journey to take twice as long! So now I just take the stairs! 
 
I have heard of companies, usually American companies that have stair climbing policies/rules - ALWAYS keeping to a certain side going in a certain direction and NEVER teking your hand from the rail etc... disciplinary action taken if you deviate from policy etc! I guess as a result of the ambulance chasing culture which is slowly seeping like a sh1t down rightys leg into our society!
 
 

i like poached eggs
 
Too risky........At one of my clients offices you actually have to take a "stair safety" course, I kid you not. At the top and bottom of every staircase there is a big sign with the do's and don'ts of stair climbing, I only wish I was taking the p1ss.

Coke had a 'three points of contact' policy at one of their sites (Wakefield IIRC) for using stairways.  Shame that there main entrance stairway was about 5 mtrs wide, meaning it was impossible to use.  It did apply to that stair too, 'Three Points of Contact at all Times' was stencled in red letters on the face of each stair.

klein
 
I guess as a result of the ambulance chasing culture which is slowly seeping like a sh1t down rightys leg into our society!

That is quote material

I tend to positively avoid stairs these days

5th floor and no lift so dont have an option but tbh I dont mind it now its just part of the routine. Same for my flat. Swiss dont seem to like lifts for some really weird reason 

CitizenKane


Nah, I train Legs on Sunday and I deadlift on Thursday so for most of the week I have pretty bad DOMS in my legs anyway. F.uck the stairs

Yeah going up stairs after heavy sqats can be brutal, like you are walking on legs made of jelly.....I love that feeling.