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    User
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    I've started doing a new machine at the gym - a stairmill. Basically kicks steps out and its as
    though you're climbing them. I love it. Kicks my *ss every time, but in a good way. I run about
    12-15 miles a week and have really started noticing how tight my hamstrings are when I run - due to
    the stairmill, I assume. Am I hurting myself? Will this help my running?

    I'm terribly slow anyway, run more just to keep weight off and stay in reasonably good shape. Had
    previously done stairmaster and elliptical at the gym. Curious if anyone else uses a similar machine
    and how its affected their running. Thanks so much! Hope you all are having the same glorious
    weather we've got here in VA today - about time...

    hg

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  2. Bill-Always Har
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    Quoted message said:

    I've started doing a new machine at the gym - a stairmill. Basically kicks steps out and its as
    though you're climbing them. I love it. Kicks my *ss every time, but in a good way.

    You'll get used to it, those things are always tough for the first week or two.

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    due to the stairmill, I assume. >

    Stop and find out.

    Am I hurting myself? Will this help my running?

    Probably not hurtinmg, and it should help in time.

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    Had previously done stairmaster and elliptical at the gym. Curious if anyone else uses a similar
    machine and how its affected their running.

    I use the eliptical, and it's marrrrrrrrrvelous baby! I love it! No other machine challenges me like
    that one, did. (I'm used to it now) It's affected my running cadio-wise in a very positive way. My
    running is so easy now it seems like cheating. I think it not only helped my heart but seemed to
    have helped me breathe more steady too. Muscle wise I get much less stiffness, soreness, and fatigue
    than before.

    Bill R.

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  3. Tony
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  4. Bob
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    Dear user,

    The elliptical machine is a godsend for those of us with old tired knees. Any stair climbing whether
    by machine or by real stairs is bad for the knees. I would avoid them. My physical therapist thinks
    those machines should be outlawed. Look at your knees as a diminishing resource. Once they are shot
    you can't get them back.

    Bob, 60 years old with 80 year old knees but still planning on NY in the fall

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    I've started doing a new machine at the gym - a stairmill. Basically


    kicks

    Quoted message said:

    steps out and its as though you're climbing them. I love it. Kicks my


    *ss

    Quoted message said:

    every time, but in a good way. I run about 12-15 miles a week and have really started noticing how
    tight my hamstrings are when I run - due to


    the

    Quoted message said:

    stairmill, I assume. Am I hurting myself? Will this help my running?

    I'm terribly slow anyway, run more just to keep weight off and stay in reasonably good shape. Had
    previously done stairmaster and elliptical at the gym. Curious if anyone else uses a similar
    machine and how its


    affected

    Quoted message said:

    their running. Thanks so much! Hope you all are having the same glorious weather we've got here in
    VA today - about time...

    hg

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  5. Bill-Always Har
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    Quoted message said:

    The elliptical machine is a godsend for those of us with old tired knees. Any stair climbing
    whether by machine or by real stairs is bad for the knees. I would avoid them. My physical
    therapist thinks those machines should be outlawed. Look at your knees as a diminishing resource.
    Once they are shot you can't get them back.

    Bob, 60 years old with 80 year old knees but still planning on NY in the fall

    One thing Bob, I'll take issue with your idea that running or climbing stairs damages the knees
    until they give out. Perhaps stair steppers do, but walking up stairs doesn't, nor does running with
    the proper equipment and style. If this is true in some peoples caeses it's because of some defect.
    Millions of people run into their 80's and never have knee trouble.

    Bill R.

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  6. Bob
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    Bill R,

    Surely you exaggerate. Millions of people may live into their 80's but a only miniscule number of
    them run. And there are many much younger people who have run with proper equipment and style but
    have knees that have given out do to overuse.

    I do agree with your comment about walking up stairs, I had in mind running up stairs.

    Bob "Bill-always hard-Rodgers " <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    The elliptical machine is a godsend for those of us with old tired knees. Any stair climbing
    whether by machine or by real stairs is bad for the knees. I would avoid them. My physical
    therapist thinks those machines should be outlawed. Look at your knees as a diminishing resource.
    Once they are shot you can't get them back.

    Bob, 60 years old with 80 year old knees but still planning on NY in the fall

    One thing Bob, I'll take issue with your idea that running or climbing


    stairs

    Quoted message said:

    damages the knees until they give out. Perhaps stair steppers do, but


    walking

    Quoted message said:

    up stairs doesn't, nor does running with the proper equipment and style.


    If

    Quoted message said:

    this is true in some peoples caeses it's because of some defect. Millions


    of

    Quoted message said:

    people run into their 80's and never have knee trouble.

    Bill R.

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    OO

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