Stair Climbers and Steppers

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Stair Climbers for Sale: Cardio That Loads the Legs A stair climber is a cardio machine that gives you stairs to climb without going anywhere. A set of steps revolves under your feet at a speed you set, so every stride lifts your own bodyweight the way a real staircase does. That is why the heart rate comes up faster than it does walking, and why the legs feel it the next day. Is a StairMaster the Same as a Stair Climber? Near enough, yes. StairMaster is a brand, and the name got used for the whole category the way Band-Aid and Jacuzzi did. Stair mill is another name for the same machine, and plenty of people still say stair stepper, which was the older design with two pedals rather than steps. We do not carry the StairMaster brand. Everything on this page is the same machine built by the manufacturers we do carry. Choosing a Stair Climber for a Home Gym The room decides more of this purchase than the machine does. You stand on a step that already sits over a foot off the ground and then you climb, so the ceiling is the first measurement and the doorway is the second. That rules out most stair climbers built for gyms, where neither was ever a constraint. STEPR designed the range around both, which is why we point home buyers there. The STEPR range runs in three levels and the names tell you which one you are looking at. Classic is the home machine, Pro sits in the middle, and XL is the commercial one. A plus on the end of any of them changes the screen: the get-on-and-go console becomes a touchscreen you can stream on. So for a home gym we would start at the STEPR Classic , which has a 5.2 inch step, runs up to 140 steps a minute, and clears a standard 8 ft ceiling and a standard doorway. The STEPR Pro+ is as far up as a home gym needs to go: a 7 inch step, 190 steps a minute, and the streaming touchscreen. It still fits under 8 ft. Commercial Stair Climber Machines A commercial stair climber machine is solving a different problem: hours of continuous use by people