If there were two ways to go upstairs and get home, the stairs or the elevator, which would you choose?
In the face of these two practices, perhaps more people will choose to take the elevator, which not only saves time, but also does not hurt their knees. If that's what you think, it's time to change your mind from now on, in fact, climbing stairs has benefits you can't imagine!
Turns out it's healthier to climb stairs than to take an elevator?
According to a British study at this year's European Congress of Preventive Cardiology, the researchers found that those who climbed stairs regularly significantly reduced the risk of cardiovascular death by 39% and the risk of all-cause death by 24% by comparing those who climbed stairs with those who did not.
Other studies have found that for people with a family history of cardiovascular disease, climbing stairs every day can also maximize health benefits and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Conversely, people who don't climb stairs are at increased risk.
The reason behind it is very simple, in this living environment where many physical activities are not up to standard, it is easy to have more health risks, such as sub-health groups, including frequent dizziness and headache, chest tightness, listlessness, depression, irritability, slow reactions, lack of energy, etc.
In this case, even a short period of exercise is good for good health. In addition, compared to other times such as running, going to the gym, swimming, etc., climbing stairs is an easy activity to achieve during the commute.
Speaking of which, some people are still worried about whether climbing stairs hurts their knees?
From the point of view of the sport of climbing stairs, the knees, as the part that bears the gravity of the body, do have to bear a certain amount of pressure, but this does not affect everyone to climb the stairs, because as long as people are not lying down, the knees will not bear different pressures.
According to a set of survey statistics, when a person is standing, the weight borne by the knee is 80%~90% of the body weight; When a person walks, the weight of the knees is 1.6 times the weight of the body weight; When running, especially during a fast sprint, the knees will carry more than 5 times the weight of their body weight, which is the same as the weight carried by going down stairs, which is about 3 times the weight of body weight when going up stairs.
It can be seen that for the vast majority of people, climbing stairs is a very friendly thing to physical health, and it can be applied to daily life. However, there are exceptions to everything, if it is a person with special circumstances, such as overweight, pregnant women, knee injuries and other groups, in order to avoid heavier pressure on the knee, it is safer to choose to take the elevator.