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 thought it was just me!

I have no idea either. I just move. I've never considered how but not getting out of bed to check.

Do you have problems with your balance?

This all fours thing is just so odd to me. Really odd. Really really odd 🤣

I tend to go tiptoe too but also sometimes on all fours. Strictly at home, mu husband finds me very odd. I find him very uptight... No upright 😁

This will definitely make the Mumsnet Roundup 😂

Never gone on tiptoes but did used to do all fours as a kid. I did it the other week again and it was brilliant.

Just normally, one foot in front of the other but I am definitely going to try the tiptoes and all fours method.
As a child I used to come down head first, lying flat and used my hands on each step. Going to try that as well, it was fun.

I normally just walk up. Sometimes I go up on all fours for the thrill of it. Our house has very steep stairs. I might figure out the gradient and report back later.

One at a time because my knee is fucked.

All fours; or in a lift. 😜
I've got a shitty knee, and that leg doesn't work particularly well. So, all fours it is. Unless I'm visiting someone in a fancy apartment building, where there's a lift. (the dream!)

I don't know. I'm going to check.

I used to bump down on my bottom - might try that tomorrow;-)

Ooh I haven't done all fours for years! Must try that next time I'm alone in the house.

I usually go on my tip toes or two at a time, depending on the stair.

I’ve always ran up the stairs ever since being a child until the day my knee went and I had to have an operation on my meniscus.

Had about 5 year break of being on my toes going up and now I run a bit. Apparently it wasn’t the running up the stairs that did it but the consultant said it was rising trot from my horses.

I’ve had soooo many falls down the stairs. I walk down them. I also cry if I fall down the stairs like a massive baby. My rescue dog greets my crumbled body and kisses me!

Oh, and we once spent a couple of hours going downstairs on an old mattress with a bit of rope on the front; used it like a bobsleigh. The three of us took turns at the front. Fucking amazing. I was a teenager. We convinced our parents to go on it too.
Scraped the wall, but totally worth it.

We broke the mattress turning our stairs into a slide...

I like to think of myself as quite accepting of innocent weirdness, but this all fours carry on is beyond me. I just can't think how the situation would arise that you'd try this???

Are you pretending to be a donkey? A cat? Do you move really quickly?

It's so so odd!

I ride on the stairlift, I'm disabled.

I honestly hadn't heard of anyone doing this on all fours till I read another thread about it.

I can't work out if the people doing this are mostly very athletic and doing it for fun, or feel that walking upright on stairs is too hard for them, some have mentioned injuries.

I just can't picture it at all.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NoJDeSYmogY

www.tiktok.com/@capitalofficial/video/7184814221710953733?lang=en

Like this!

Not pretending to be anything.
Get to first step, extend arms and put palms of hands on the third or fourth step from where I am. Step up one foot, 'step' one hand up.
It's less painful on my knees.

I walk down stairs normally. My knees creak as I do it.

@EmmaEmerald it started just as an impulse one day when DC was a toddler and I was tired and feeling kind of melodramatic, like ‘ugh, I’m so exhausted I am going to have to drag myself up the stairs like a wounded animal’. But once I was doing it, it was like a flashback to being a child, and kind of invigorating! So then I found myself trotting up the stairs quadripedally now and then when nobody else was around, just as a little pick-me-up.

My DH does not know about any of this. I’m a very serious person normally.

I run up stairs.

Yep. Think about how you would crawl. Do it like that.
Downstairs is harder. I've been known to do it on my bum.
(I do have a serious back injury, and waiting for a knee replacement)

On all fours. Only started in my 50s. My joints are a bit creaky and it feels gentler on them. I don't do it in public. My stairs are steep