Steppers

Steppers are a great and easy way to increase your aerobic activity. Since they’re designed to increase your endurance gradually—helping you to lose weight with long exercises—your resting heart rate slows as your cardiovascular system grows stronger. This improves the efficiency of your body’s heart, and thus also your overall health, while making other exercises and even day-to-day chores feel easier to accomplish.

Steppers are designed to simulate the experience of walking up a flight of stairs, but (in addition to you not having to constantly walk back down a real flight of stairs) they have the added benefit of resistance control, which means you can control the intensity of your simple, low-skills cardio workout at the flick of a button. This process optimizes your ability to lose weight as you can climb at a brisk pace or focus on toning your lower-body muscles, such as your glutes, hamstrings, quads and calves.

For a classic stepper design, the Spirit Fitness CS800 Stepper combines the familiar and cardio-burning stepping action with an arched step-rail design and heightened step levels to maximize your lower-body movements. The Inspire Fitness CS3 Cardio Strider reduces tensions on your knees because of its seated positioning while still targeting all of the key lower-body muscles, and its moving handlebars provide an upper-body workout as well. And the famous Bowflex Max Trainer, one of the most elaborate and efficient stair steppers on the market and which is available at Flaman Fitness, provides a highly productive and low-impact cardio workout in just a matter of minutes.