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Adventure travel -- walking, hiking, cross-country ski touring, climbing -- is fun, but to enjoy it requires fitness. Stair climbers, heavy duty ellipticals and treadmills can help hikers and other adventure travelers prepare for trips that involve physical activity. Backpackers are fond of saying that the only say to get ready to put on a backpack and climb a mountain is to put on a backpack and climb a mountain. But working out on exercise equipment such as stair climbers and treadmills (machines commonly found in most gyms, and available for home purchase, as well) can prepare hikers and other active travelers by exercising the muscles most likely to be used for adventure travel. Stair climber and treadmill equipment is readily available a most gyms, but for people with a little extra space (a basement or a rec room), buying a stair climber, a treadmill, a stationary bike, or other home gym equipment can increase the chance of grabbing a half hour of exercise to stay in shape for that next trip. Using heavy duty Stair Climbers and Treadmills For hikers and backpackers, stair masters and treadmills are good choices for pre-trip exercise because they best duplicate the kind of exercise to be done when climbing or hiking. And they help to build endurance. Plus, they encourage low-impact exercise. Using a treadmill or stair climber, exercise can be as easy or as difficult as needed. For an out-of shape beginner, a half hour on a treadmill at 3 miles an hour with no incline may be more than enough. Joggers can ratchet up the speeds to their maximum, and can up the ante even more by using the incline settings, which make it feel as though the user is climbing a mountain. Similarly, on some stair climbers, putting weight on a different part of the step increases or decreases resistance, making it easier or harder to climb. Different settings can also increase the speed, difficulty, and intensity of the workout. More Tips for Using heavy duty Stair Climbers and Treadmills
Tips for Buying heavy duty Treadmills and Stair Climbers
For those in the market for home fitness equipment, treadmills and stair climbers are both versatile, low impact options, which can be used by all family members. Before committing to buying a treadmill or stair climber, check out a few different models at gyms to see which features seem most useful. Treadmills in use at commercial gyms tend to be of rugged construction, since they have to support many hours of use each day. Chances are, an individual won't have the budget or the need for such a high-quality exercise machine when buying home gym equipment. But if a stair climbing machine or a treadmill is not ergonomic and easy to use, most people quickly abandon it . Treadmills and stair climbers should be electrically powered, as opposed to treadmills that are powered by the user. The latter are cheaper, but far more difficult (and, many people feel, more unpleasant) to use. Other features to look for include computer programs. Depending on the model, stair climbing machines and treadmill equipment may have a variety of displays including mileage and time, miles per hour, feet climbed, incline percentage, and calories burned. Some sophisticated machines additionally can change the settings automatically, for example, setting the user on a "hill course" where the grade of the incline or the speed will be periodically changed, or setting up a "sprint course" that involves periods of faster walking or running alternating with rest periods of slower walking or jogging.. These settings contribute to varying the workout from day to day and can help stave off boredom. They can also help adventure travelers by giving an indication of what, for instance, five miles and 2000 feet of elevation gain actually feels like, so they can gage their readiness for a trip. But for people who never use these settings on gym machines, these computer features are nothing more than an additional expense. Be sure the home exercise equipment purchased has features that will actually be used once the machine is delivered and set up. The bottom line: Most adventure travel takes a degree of physical fitness in order to be enjoyable. Using equipment that mimics walking and climbing can help build the muscles and endurance an adventure traveler most needs. And having that equipment at home might just make getting into shape for the next trip a little easier.
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