STEPPING MACHINES AND STEPPERS
A mini stepper is a compact piece of exercise equipment that provides a moderate workout and can have a positive impact on your health by improving your cardiovascular system and toning the muscles in your lower body. These small machines offer most of the same benefits as a stepping machine, but frequently have fewer settings and some do not have handles. You can gain several important health and fitness benefits with a mini-stepper and stepping machine.
Stepping machines offer the same workout as walking up the stairs, providing cardio benefits as well as leg and rear-end toning. To get a full workout, however, you must avoid leaning on the railing and instead let your legs do the work.
The benefits of mini steppers
- The improvement of the cardiovascular system
Using a mini stepper regularly can contribute to your cardiovascular health. The stepping motion used while exercising with a mini stepper mimics walking, which is a moderate aerobic activity. In order to get cardiovascular benefits from using a mini stepper, you need to use it for at least 150 minutes a week.
- Improved muscle tone
Exercising with a mini stepper utilizes the same muscles needed to walk or climb stairs. There is a slight resistance that your legs must push against with each step. Therefore, exercising with one regularly can help tone the lower body muscles, including the glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps and calf muscles. The more frequently you use it, the more definition you will see in these muscles. You will also gain muscular endurance as your legs get accustomed to longer workouts. Remember to stretch properly before and after you workout to prevent injury or sore muscles.
The benefits of stepping machine
Improved muscle tone
The benefits of using a stepping machine are very impressive. Which is why they are now one of the most popular home fitness machines. Using a machine like this, regularly, will help you tone your hip muscles, your leg muscles, and your upper body muscle structure.
- Body strengthening
Stepping machine works the whole of your lower body, abdominal muscles, toning the muscles in your buttocks, shaping your calf muscles and working your quadriceps and hamstrings (upper thigh muscles). A stepper will also work your core muscles, giving you a mid-body workout which will help you in your daily life (if you are out of shape and have problems climbing stairs without being breathless), because the stepping motion simulates walking an ordinary flight of steps. By strengthening your abdominal and lower back muscles, as well as your legs, you will find that climbing an every day staircases becomes a breeze.
- The improvement of the cardiovascular system
Plus, by using a stepping machine for just minutes a day, you will improve your cardiovascular health so that you will feel alive and have bursting amounts of energy. A stepping machine will deliver a cardiovascular workout, comparable to the stationary bike, and BETTER than a treadmill set on a steep incline, without hurting your knee joints. Cardiovascular health is important to everyone, especially as we get older. Toning, shaping and working your leg muscles will guarantee you a cardio workout of some degree which is not hard. If you work at your own pace, to begin with, then increase the intensity and time spent on any type of step machine, you will gradually gain the cardiovascular benefits.
