Stairmaster

Muscles worked: .

How to do it

1. To begin, step onto the stairmaster and select the desired option from the menu.
2. Pump your legs up and down in an established rhythm, driving the pedals down but not all the way to the floor.
3. Stairmasters offer convenience, cardiovascular benefits, and usually have less impact than running outside.

Coaching cues

The two cues IronPack shows on this exercise's card mid-workout:

• Tall posture, no leaning on the rails

Logging it

Logged as minutes with a built-in stopwatch. Cardio pays cadence and streak progress, not records.

Photos and steps: free-exercise-db (public domain). Cues, muscle weighting and logging guidance are IronPack's own app data. Last generated 2026-07-17.