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For me, I have always counted it as a step if my foot-in-the-air lands on a different level than the other foot. So, if I am walking; & approach a flight of st

For me, I have always counted it as a step if my foot-in-the-air lands on a different level than the other foot. So, if I am walking; & approach a flight of stairs going upwards, before until my both feet are on same plane, stairs have not started & I can't start counting. As soon as I step "up", my feet is on different (higher in this case going upwards), I count it as first stair. Same on the other side. I continue counting till I am stepping up. As soon as I land my both feets on same level; any foot-step after that doesn't get counted in step-count. Other way to count steps are imagine if we look ar stairs' drawing or cross-section view from side; i.e. a right-angled zig-zag line going up. On both ends, ground & landing lines are also there i.e. the drawing has always a horizontal line on upper & lower side representing floor & landing. This line is from bottom-left; going upwards towards top-right; the drawing's triangular section of bottom-right is, assume, filled in with concrete/anything; & a person walks on left-top section. Any 90 degree outward bend on this side is a step. ┍──── ┍┙ ┍┙ ┍┙ ────┙ Four steps in above.

Someone 8y ago
”I have always counted it as a step if my foot-in-the-air lands on a different level than the other foot.” That algorithm doesn’t count steps of a stair, it counts the number of steps you take to go up (or down) a staircase. Those are different if you follow this nerd’s way, which, by the way, has benefits other than making it easier to count stairs. It’s a fairly easy way to get some strength training. I think everybody who can should take stairs two steps at a time. That gives you some cushion in old age, as you’ll be able to go back to one step at a time, and postpones the day where taking a stair becomes impossible. If two steps is easy, you can make going up harder (I don’t advise that going down stairs) by sitting deeper, with your thighs horizontally, or by taking three steps at a time (four steps is out of reach for most)
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
  Would taking two steps at a time in this was possibly cause more knee-joint wear?
  - Someone 8y ago
    It increases forces on the joint, but I think the benefits of having stronger muscles more than compensate for that. That will be dependent on various factors, though (leg length, fitness, weight, tiredness, to mention a few. I rarely do three anymore, and go back to one sometimes)

Someone 8y ago

”I have always counted it as a step if my foot-in-the-air lands on a different level than the other foot.” That algorithm doesn’t count steps of a stair, it counts the number of steps you take to go up (or down) a staircase. Those are different if you follow this nerd’s way, which, by the way, has benefits other than making it easier to count stairs. It’s a fairly easy way to get some strength training. I think everybody who can should take stairs two steps at a time. That gives you some cushion in old age, as you’ll be able to go back to one step at a time, and postpones the day where taking a stair becomes impossible. If two steps is easy, you can make going up harder (I don’t advise that going down stairs) by sitting deeper, with your thighs horizontally, or by taking three steps at a time (four steps is out of reach for most)

TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
Would taking two steps at a time in this was possibly cause more knee-joint wear?
- Someone 8y ago
  It increases forces on the joint, but I think the benefits of having stronger muscles more than compensate for that. That will be dependent on various factors, though (leg length, fitness, weight, tiredness, to mention a few. I rarely do three anymore, and go back to one sometimes)