Long story short i graduated in may and have been running 20 mpw and running the bleachers at my local high school. What are the benefits of running these steps? What are the disadvantages? I'm curious as to how this is helping me. Thank you.
Long story short i graduated in may and have been running 20 mpw and running the bleachers at my local high school. What are the benefits of running these steps? What are the disadvantages? I'm curious as to how this is helping me. Thank you.
Old man Francis wrote:
Long story short i graduated in may and have been running 20 mpw and running the bleachers at my local high school. What are the benefits of running these steps? What are the disadvantages? I'm curious as to how this is helping me. Thank you.
Do they have a ramp at the ends of the bleachers? This is so much better to run.
Liberal Sammy wrote:
Old man Francis wrote:Long story short i graduated in may and have been running 20 mpw and running the bleachers at my local high school. What are the benefits of running these steps? What are the disadvantages? I'm curious as to how this is helping me. Thank you.
Do they have a ramp at the ends of the bleachers? This is so much better to run.
What do you mean? The bleachers are just four sections and I run up and down the stairs and jog over to the next section and run up and down that and repeat
Old man Francis wrote:
Liberal Sammy wrote:Do they have a ramp at the ends of the bleachers? This is so much better to run.
What do you mean? The bleachers are just four sections and I run up and down the stairs and jog over to the next section and run up and down that and repeat
Well, the stadium I ran at had ramps along the outer edges of the seating areas. Steep and maybe 120 yards up. Much better running up those than messing with individual steps.
Benefit: Calves of iron. At least my calves burn like hell after a stairs workout.
Disadvantage: Pain. See the Benefit section.
Trombone Sammy wrote:
Old man Francis wrote:What do you mean? The bleachers are just four sections and I run up and down the stairs and jog over to the next section and run up and down that and repeat
Well, the stadium I ran at had ramps along the outer edges of the seating areas. Steep and maybe 120 yards up. Much better running up those than messing with individual steps.
Ohh! I understand now. Sorry, I thought you were messing with me. That'd be too much turning I feel like. The one closest to me does not have a ramp
I think... wrote:
Benefit: Calves of iron. At least my calves burn like hell after a stairs workout.
Disadvantage: Pain. See the Benefit section.
Haha I'm gonna get those big cyclist calves! I love when my calves get all vainey lol
For me stairs have never done much. But that's just me.
Triathletebenm wrote:
For me stairs have never done much. But that's just me.
Why do you think this is?
I will sometimes do every step and sometimes I'll skip a step. Occasionally I'll skip 2. I switch it up so I can keep going quick but use a bit different muscles. Do not many other people use this type of training as either preparation for racing or for general fitness..??
Bump
I feel it can help balance out form.
For A Few Dollars Hoar wrote:
I feel it can help balance out form.
Especially going every other step probably helps with explosion
Bump...
Could be a real useful exercise if you combine it into a focused block of training. The downside is that the loading on the posterior chain can result in excessive fatigue and *could* lead to injury if not managed appropriately however, the upside is that if you combine this into your strength / strength endurance block of training you'll make some huge gains in your ability to apply force.
Waste of time. Go do some short sprints and hill sprints instead.
But running down the stairs is great for turn-over. Don't think about form, just try and move your feet as fast as possible.
old skool turnover guy wrote:
Waste of time. Go do some short sprints and hill sprints instead.
But running down the stairs is great for turn-over. Don't think about form, just try and move your feet as fast as possible.
Great for form until you face plant..... I used to run them when I was in college and going down when you were slightly woozy from lack of oxygen to the brain was scary.
Old man Francis wrote:
I think... wrote:Benefit: Calves of iron. At least my calves burn like hell after a stairs workout.
Disadvantage: Pain. See the Benefit section.
Haha I'm gonna get those big cyclist calves! I love when my calves get all vainey lol
Your calves are narcissists?
From years of coaching experience, I stopped having athletes do stadium stairs for a number of reasons. 1. Shin splints became more prevalent from doing stairs. 2. Missed step at least by one athlete per session always was another issue I didn't lie dealing with. 3. You use different running mechanics doing stairs than you do running hills or flat. So the benefit of going up stairs seems is negated by different running form. 4. We also ended up with a number of athletes having knee issues from doing stairs. Not sure if it was the short single step stair running or trying to do 2 step stair running. I didn't bother with doing any studies, just tried to learn from experience that there were too many negative issues to deal with.
We switched to doing different hill elevations at different distances, building up the workload gradually over time, keeping focus on maintaining good running form.