AIBU to ask how you walk up the stairs?

[TiredDonut]

I read something recently that suggested walking up stairs on tiptoes to build up calf muscles....

Is this not the ONLY way to walk up stairs? I've always walked up stairs on tiptoes and can't imagine an other way...

Am I weird?

(And yes, I've always had good calf muscles)

I go sideways like a crab

I go on all fours.

(genuinely, unless I’m carrying something! 😂)

I shuffle sideways. Doesn’t everyone?

I hop

I lay on my stomach and ooze up each stair like an amoeba-blob. 🦠 😄 Saves energy.

All fours or tip toes.

I do on steep stairs. Can't imagine doing that at work though.

Tiptoes generally unless at work and someone is directly behind me. It feels a but ares wiggley to do it in someone's face

I choose to gallop up them, two at a time. Three if I have a good speed built up.

two steps at a time, my brain needs the additional thinking time, it isn’t fast enough for a step at a time going up.

I always go up on all fours at home (200yr old cottage, steep, narrow stairs).

On toes, but with the foot flat and the heel hanging over the edge. I imagine the article wants you to go with the heel lifted.

I go on all fours unless carrying something. They are narrow and steep though (thanks to a mid-terrace Victorian house).

Going down them however... very carefully! And the steps are so narrow, I have to slant my feet sideways. I end up walking down stairs that way on all stair cases though due to force of habit.

I lost it on the second post 🤣
I would literally die if someone recorded me going up stairs and made me watch it. I run up and down. I don't know why I do this considering how many times I've fallen on my arse.
I have a forward lean too, so it's like I'm sprinting. I'm such a weirdo.

I run (holding onto my boobs) at home. Walk flatfooted elsewhere

Ah ha! I also go on all fours. I remember the first time my now-husband saw it. ‘You go up the stairs like a dog’

Hands only. I’ve always had good wrists.

How do you go up stairs in all fours? Is this a real thing?? I can imagine anyone I know doing that

Always on tip toes. My kids don't and go flat footed and it drives me batty as it's much louder.

At work I go 2 steps at a time.

Neither can I, how can there move multiple people all doing it? Do they never go out, no one does stairs like that in public

Why wouldn't you just walk like a normal walk?

One foot on a stair and the next foot onto the same stair. I try to put my whole foot in so I don't fall.

by putting one foot in front of the other.

You do it at home not in public. Lots of children go on all fours. ITS FUN

I want to say I go up stairs 'like a normal person' but after reading all these replies I now wonder what that is! 😂

On tiptoes. Sometimes I do two at a time. I live on the second floor so I do a lot of stairs. Calf muscles like Christmas puddings.