take the stairs at work instead of the elevator

I still take the elevator sometimes, but I generally take the stairs now. Other than walking my dog, sometimes it’s the only exercise I get.

in the beggining it was veryyy boring
you arrive in your floor very tired and everything
but if you can survive the firts week it’s realy good to see that you can do it better than before..
and it’s also realy good to think that yout are helping your health and the enviroment too..
it’s a small act, but if everybody toughth that way, it would make all the diference ;)

Thanks to a nudge from Des, I will try to track how I do on this goal this week here.

11/27 – husband drove me to work, so no stairs in parking deck, but took office stairs in this morning, and then again when I went to the drug store mid-morning. Took stairs to 2nd floor and back twice, and up to 6th floor and back.
11/28 – parking deck and office stairs in morning, but not at lunchtime
11/29 – parking deck and office stairs in morning, halfway at lunchtime
11/30 –
12/1 -

However I’ve done this before in many of the buildings I’ve worked in. I used to be on the 12th floor of a building and walked up most days. When I lived in the dorms at San Francisco State I lived on the 14th floor and climbed the stairs most of the time as well.

It’s good easy to get exercise.

I moved up one floor at work a couple of weeks ago, and for whatever reason, it’s just so much harder to psyche myself to climb up that extra flight of stairs, so I often take the elevator all the way up now. (shame on me) If I am just going one or two flights, I take the stairs, and I still take the stairs in my parking deck, but I need to get over this mental block that the extra flight of stairs at the office is going to kill or cripple me.

I usually take the stairs in my parking deck, but rarely use them at work, unless I am only going up or down one floor. This past week, I have been trying to make more of an effort to take the stairs, especially when I arrive in the morning and leave in the evening.

For now, I will take the stairs down. 14 flights of stairs is a bit much to tackle, but eventually I’d like to get to the point where I take them up and down.

I’ve been doing this pretty consistently for the past couple weeks, i think i can say i’ve done this:)

Pretty much my only motivation to do this is to keep my legs strong in the winter so i’ll be ready to climb mountains in the spring:)

Those 6 flights are a doozy though.

today I walked up two flights of stairs