How would you feel after climbing six flights of stairs?

[Adreno]

I had to climb six flights of very steep stairs quite quickly today.

I’m quite unfit but have been trying lately to eat better, lose some weight, and move more.

Just wondering, how you would feel after doing that and what’s your general fitness level?

I’m 40, for reference.

Dead. Most definitely dead or lying on the floor squeaking like a stuck pig for a good ten minutes.

But I am very overweight due to steroids and copd. But it's the sort of thing I would do slowly to get myself fitter.

42 and I'd be fine. I'm fit.

I think that all able bodied adults should be able to do this without much difficulty (excluding the elderly and infirm). The fact that so many can't is worrying for society IMO. We have evolved to use our bodies, and they need to move regularly in order to function properly and stay healthy.

I'd be puffed out but not about to collapse. 47 and overweighted.

6 is where my legs really start burning.

Id be ok, slightly out of breath but I wouldn’t like to do much more.

(work on the 6th floor and often take the stairs)

My lungs would collapse and my kneecaps would fall off.

I also live at the top of a hill btw. Walking and cycling up that is more effort than a few flights of stairs.

For context: 6 flights of stairs represents a maximum of 25m-30m ascent. Walking up even a fairly easy hill in the Lakes (which, again, a healthy able bodied adult should be capable of) would involve several hundred metres of ascent.

Unless life threatening (e.g. a fire) I wouldn't due to ill health. I'm very slim (BMI well under 20). I do wish people wouldn't associate weight with fitness.

I'd feel fine. I use the stairmaster a few times a week in the gym for long periods of time so it helps.

I’m 63 , live in a bungalow , but I can manage stairs quite well
we’ve just been on a cruise and resolved not to use the lifts and went from our stateroom on deck 7 to the buffet on the 12th deck reasonably well ( especially by the end of the holiday ! )

I would struggle to do one flight on stairs. I would not have made it into the 6th floor.

But I have LC…..

Totally agree there!!!

Bring slim doesn’t mean healthy and fit.
Being overweight doesn’t mean unfit (and unhealthy)

I had to climb 8 flights in a car park recently when the lift was out of order and I was really shocked at how breathless I was and the number of times I had to stop. I'm 50, and a bit chunkier than I used to be but I really didn't think it would be as bad as it was!

I'd probably feel it! But I'd manage.

I walk 5k 3/4 times a week though but I'm also overweight.

Late 40s. A bit overweight but I do a lot of exercise.

I have 3 flights of stairs in my house which I run up and down multiple times a day. 6 wouldn’t really affect me at all.

Probably a bit out of puff, but not uncomfortable. I made a dick of myself when I decided to take the stairs to the 15th floor at work last week - I had to wipe my sweaty face and lower back with a tissue when I got to my desk.

I’d be fine I think.
45, fit

Depends on how many steps are in each flight.
If you keep regularly climbing them your fitness will improve.
I made a conscious decision not to use the lifts in my work place and have only used the lift a handful of times in two years. I work on the third floor and use it as my exercise.
If you're perturbed about your fitness then why not use this as a part of your exercise routine.

I do 8 flights in a car park every now and then and am warm, breathing heavily and aching quads at the top of it but I don’t need to stop and can go at a reasonable pace. 56, overweight, moderate exerciser who works in a first floor office so only normally does one flight at a time.

My daughter used to live in a 4th floor flat. There were 8 flights of stairs. No lift.

When her second child was born her waters broke while we were out. Getting up those stairs with a woman in labour and a three year old who had had their trip to the park cut abruptly short wasn't fun and we had left the delivery pack in the car (home birth) so had to go back down for that.

I really don't miss those stairs!

I live on the 4th floor, no lift, and I walk up and down those flights several times a day without issues. Is 6 flights the same as 6 floors? We have two flights of stairs for each floor, so in my case it’s 9 flights of stairs as there’s an extra one at the bottom, or is that not how you count flights of stairs?

Just nipped out to look at the stairs and there are 16 steps per flight so six flights was just shy of 100 steps.

Thanks for all the responses.

I was puffing a bit at the top and my legs were beginning to feel the pinch, but I could have kept going for another while if I needed to. I went up the stairs pretty fast and they were very steep.

Kind of pleased with myself now because while I definitely have a way to go in terms of working on my fitness, I’m taking comfort in the fact that I seem pretty average, based on this thread. A year ago I wouldn’t have been able for them at all.

Depends how steep they were and how much terror was spurring me on!

Probably ok. I used to work on the 5th floor of a building where there was 2 flights of stairs for each floor and there was at least 100 people in each office on every floor. The only lift could take about 5 people so there was either always a queue or a squeeze to get the lift so more often than not I would usually take the stairs several times a day.

Fine, I'm 49. My office has been that far up for the last decade. I'm always the weirdo who walks up and down.

Some of my colleagues really struggle, even the ones younger than me get the lift up and down 😱.

I'd probably need a little lie down halfway up! 55, very unfit and definitely needing to work on it!