Do You Use The Lift?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24933090
I haven't used the lift at work since 2008, I'm still unslim of course but would I be even more so had I not been climbing what must be thousands of stairs?

[Old_Geezer]

I use the lift to go up to floor 2 or above. I use it also if, as now, I've sustained injury and it is painful to use stairs. Apart from that, rarely.

[FredPuli43]

No, but I've had lots of practice. I had one house where the drawing room and all other rooms, bar the kitchen, the hall, and a small office, were all upstairs. I must have been up and down countless times, and, once, a walk-up flat on the third floor, which was a little less taxing.

[jno]

Step aerobics are supposed to be good for you, so yes.

[doctordb]

Parisian women always take the stairs.

[Sqad]

Never have, never will. Can chat, teach& bollock junior staff in a lift, but not when they are strung out behind you on a staircase.......ridiculous.

It will help your cardiovascular system (perhaps) but as for weight loss, it is a waste of time.

Good luck.

[AB Editor]

I bet you work on the ground floor don't you TTT? :)

I dislike lifts - you never know who is going to get in with you!

[mikey4444]

When I was in my thirties, I worked in a 14 story building, on the 10th floor. For a few weeks I diligently ignored the lift, in order to get fit for a skiing holiday. And it worked, big time ! I played squash at the time as well, and my fitness improved no end. A cheap and easy to get fit.

Now, alas, I am now retired and quite tubby !

[China Doll]

With a ropey hip and working on sixth floor with occasional trips to 12th and 13th floor of our other building... no, not bloody likely I'm taking the stairs. However I never take the lift for three floors or less; unless you're carrying something or disabled, that's just bloody lazy.

[jno]

I'm not really disabled, CD, but since a knee/moving car interface some years back, two storeys is as much as I can do, and even that takes as much time as waiting for the lift.

[China Doll]

I'd class that as a disability jno - should have used a different word - I have every sympathy for ropey hips, knees etc. But even with my ropey hip I can do three flights so it's a kind of limited sympathy ;o)

[jno]

you're young. Your hips may not get better as you get older but your sympathies may expand.

[China Doll]

My mum says that sort of thing to me as well :c)

[jno]

how could a sensible mum like that produce such an unkind child?

[ToraToraTora]

No ED, I currently work on the 2nd floor but I spent a long time on the 4th.

[mccfluff]

i was going to say i never use the lift, but then i remembered i used it this morning, i was taking 4 bundles of papers upstairs though

[youngmafbog]

Always use the stairs, worked on the 5th in the City and 8th and 13th in Bruxelles. Also used to take the steps (up and down) at Queensway, complete with luggage. Over 120 steps I think.

I am still a fat g*t though.

Now I am on the ground floor, doesn't seem to have changed the body shape one iota.

[grasscarp]

I work on 2nd floor and usually use the lift, which makes me feel guilty. However, since Dr Sqad has said stairs does not help weight loss will stop the guilt feelings.

[maggiebee]

1 floor up - stairs. Any more - lift.

[Bazile]

I use the stairs , sub conciously perhaps , because i've been stuck twice in a broken down lift .

On one occasion , on christmas eve would you beleive ; with some colleagues , when leaving the office .

[jno]

Baz, you should have used the opportunity to chat, teach & bollock junior staff as per the doctor's prescription above