Strength Training Home Gym

I run up 100 stairs and it takes me about TWO MINUTES. Most people on this say that to lose weight it should be for 10-30 minutes which confuses me because I’m left out of breath and winded.

Is running up stairs strength training or Cardio?

Will it help lose weight EVEN THOUGH I can only go up once, lasting for about 2 minutes?

Answer:  It’s both.  How long you do it isn’t important.  And being out of breath is not an indicator that your working hard.

If you want to lose weight, you should be using cardio for a warm up and cool down, but really hitting the strength training to exhaust your muscles.  You want to engage all your muscles, not just your leg muscles when you go up the stairs.  They more muscles you work, the greater the calorie burn and that means faster fat loss.

Click here to get free workouts that you can do at home.  No stairs required.  lol