Want a great body but don’t want to throw money at a gym? Lucky for you, your environment is your workout! You don’t need a treadmill or elliptical machine when you have steps in your house. Learn how to use the steps to your advantage and benefit.

Today we’re going to take a couple of minutes on the blog and talk about steps. These are your best friend. You want to get in shape. You want to feel better. You want tight abs. You want the non girly man butt or you want the girly man butt or whatever you want. Nice quads. Good posture. Good for the heart. Good for the lungs. Steps.

Using the steps forwards and backwards. Now walking down the steps like this engages your abs, your quadriceps, your lower back, your neck, your upper back, your shoulders, your whole torso.

Going backwards, sober, uses the front part of the quadriceps, really engages the gluteus maximus, that’s the butt part of your butt, and your lower back. It’s also harder. It also engages more less used strength components of the whole leg.

Now look. The whole idea of our blog and the whole idea is that your environment is your workout. Everything around you is what’s going to make you fit.

A hundred years ago they didn’t have a gym around every corner. You didn’t slide a card, pop in and get on the elliptical. You ran. You lifted stones. If you were Greek, I guess you wrestled or you made a salad. I don’t know.

Steps. Jogging steps; that’s even better. If you start running up the steps, legs high and then jogging down, landing, cushioning your response with that flexing of your hips and your quadriceps.

I’m telling you other than a pushup, steps are the way to go. Let’s say that you have only just your back steps and you work at a small office building. This is only a two story office building. We broke into it to do some filming. You like it so far? You bet.

Run up these 10 times a day. I’m telling you this is one of the coolest workouts you can do. As many steps as you can find every day. No elevators anymore. Besides, do you know elevators, they have a little tiny string that holds that box up. They tell you it’s cable, but it’s not cable. It’s string. I promise you.