Summer time is the perfect excuse to get creative and take your workout outdoors. Kick up the intensity with a stair focused sweat session! Use these exercises to
supplement cardio intervals for a challenging, fun workout that can be done pretty much anywhere, no equipment required! Incorporate one set of each exercise between sets of stair running. Modify the workout for your abilities by increasing or decreasing the intensity.
Exercise #3: Stair Push-ups
Equipment Needed: Stairs.
Main Muscle Groups Worked: Pectoralis Major/Minor, Triceps, Rectus Abdominus
How to Perform:
- At the bottom of a flight of stairs, assume an incline plank position (3-4 steps up), with hands just outside of shoulder width.
- Pivot from the toes, bend elbows until chest touches the step.
- Extend at the elbows to push up to start position.
Modifications:
- MAKE IT EASIER – perform the incline push up from the knees.
- MAKE IT HARDER – Try a decline push up, with feet on a step (the higher the step the harder it will be), hands at the base of the flight and perform your push up.
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by Megan Denholm
Megan is a Bachelor of Kinesiology graduate from the University of Alberta. She is a CSEP-CPT certified Exercise Specialist with the MacEwan University Sport and Wellness fitness team.
