Why climbing stairs is so hard even when you’re in shape. By HTV National Desk Oct 9, 2019. Feeling breathless at the top of a flight of stairs happens to the best of us.

Staying at home for weeks or months on end is hardly natural for elite sport climbers, who spend most of their time scaling cliffs, climbing walls, and boulders. In keeping with government advice ...

"Climbing stairs can be a wonderful mix of both aerobic exercise and resistance training," says Dr. Tamara Horwich, a cardiologist at UCLA who focuses on women's heart health.

Stair climbing health benefits. Climbing stairs is associated with a longer life, researchers reported at a congress of the European Society of Cardiology in 2024.

Twenty-month-old Ellie Farmer, “the Little Zen Monkey,” wowed the Internet by climbing walls about 8 feet high.

Song Z, Wan L, Wang W, et al. Daily stair climbing, disease susceptibility, and risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study ...

The pandemic had some people climbing the walls. Me, I climbed stairs. Of the 42 walks in “Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles,” it had taken me 10 years ...

Adults who reported climbing more than five flights of stairs daily were 20% less likely to develop atherosclerotic CVD over 12 years compared with those who reported never climbing stairs ...

Why climbing stairs is so hard even when you’re in shape By HTV National Desk Oct 9, 2019 You may even run marathons and still find yourself winded at the top of a staircase.