Why You Should Take The Stairs
People do a very funny thing.1Since you happen to be a people, you probably do it too!
Care to know what it is so you can chuckle at the fuckery everybody does?2Including you!
Well, they go home to their apartment building after a workout.
Oh, so their mistake is renting instead of owning?, you ask.
Yes, but that’s a separate matter!
As to what the mistake is that’s made by people in this specific instance, it isn’t paying off someone else’s mortgage and walking away with zero equity. No, the mistake made by people is going home to their apartment building after a workout and then hopping on the elevator right by the entrance instead of walking the few extra steps to the stairwell to take the stairs.3And your mistake, too! Assuredly, they do this because they’re so plumb tuckered out from their physically and mentally draining sets of quarter squats.4You do too!
Now, while I know it’s easy to be totally wiped out from only thrusting up and down an inch, taking the elevator instead of the stairs isn’t the right choice because it cuts down on energy expenditure, which effectively reduces the potential amount of calories that could be burned for the day. Compounding things is all the other inactivity before and after the gym that tallies up to the burning of fewer potential total calories.5One example is parking as close as possible to the gym entrance so you don’t have to do that much walking to and fro.
So what’s the solution? Continue reading Why You Should Take The Stairs
