Going up the stairs on all fours: am I the only one?

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This is a bit of a weird one.

When I was a kid, say 6/7/8, I'd always scamper up steepish flights of stairs on all fours.

Now I'm in my fifties I've suddenly started doing it again on my home stairs (not in public, although that's a hilarious image). Stairs are steepish, but no steeper than they've been for the last ten years I've been living here, and have got newish nice soft carpet. It suddenly seems like the natural thing to do if my hands are empty.

Does anyone else do this? Should I contact the HRT manufacturers to report a strange side-effect? Is it the sign of a hitherto unsuspected neurological condition?

I haven’t done this for YEARS and now I’m excited to try it when I’m next in a house with stairs

I do that too. Or rather used to do that in my 20s-30s when I lived in houses with those kind of stairs.

Ok, I'm so glad I read this thread, what a miserable day I've had but knowing there's others who are still playful and young at heart has made my day! My dh and teenage DS have just had turns bum shuffling and then crocodiling down, I didn't mention the monkey climb back up but they both did it!! Remember, don't grow up! It's a trap!

Omg I've found my people! I've been doing this since last year, no idea why I started but it's fun! My 8 year old thinks it's hilarious!!

Yes, I do this quite often, even though I still have strong legs/knees

We have seriously steep stairs in our house, with small treads, which are all too easy to fall on.

My natural speed for any movement is 'fast', and I've found that going up our stairs on all fours is both faster and safer than staying upright and relying on the bannister rail.

Admittedly, it does look very funny to anyone below, as I discovered quite recently when I followed my 90 Yr old mum upstairs and saw her doing it.

Sometimes I like to hop upstairs, like a rabbit. I'm 42.

And this sounds different than what others are saying. Safer on all fours?

so confused rn. I have no stairs and I'm not using the communal ones in my block to try it!

I do this, the stairs in my terraced house are almost as steep as a ladder and it just seemed a natural way to go upstairs. I wasn't copying the cat, honest.

I do it too. I have always done it.

Are people scampering up fast like this guy?

I do this and my kids think it's hilarious

I do this lol.

I do this. I have an ultra creepy crawl that I use to scare the DC.

I do this but backwards coming down the stairs 🤣

I started this in my 50s

Like a vertical version of this?

www.lesmills.com/uk/fit-planet/fitness/bear-crawls/

Man, I'm unfit.

My husband does this, mind you he is 76 with a heart condition, finds it easier..,

Me too. And I also do a forward roll across the bed instead of going round it. I am 45.

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I can't figure out who is doing it for extra support or if most posters are doing it at a cracking pace because they are super fit, hence all the questions.

I live in a 200yr old cottage and the stairs are so narrow and steep - I always climb up on all fours! In fact, a neighbour popped round last year to have a nose and she went up on all fours too.

Yes, that is me !

I always did this as a child. On occasion as, I even came down head first on all fours (to the horror of my DM!)

I don't seem to be able to walk normally down the stairs. DS says I gallop, like Miranda 🤣

That is really good cardio! i'm impressed. And wishing I had stairs!

I've always done it. When we first married we bought s house with stairs straight off the living room and I thought I'd stop so I didn't look foolish in front of my dh, it didn't last long. Now all 5 of us do it.

I do this too. I hate when DH is coming up too so I have to walk normally