Want to burn 1,000 calories while feeling like you’re climbing the Empire State Building with a piano on your back? Hop on a StairMaster. At a brisk pace (60 steps per minute), you can hit 1,000 in 55 minutes.
Surprising fact: climbing stairs burns twice as many calories as running per minute. It’s like the exercise gods decided to punish us for inventing escalators. After 20 minutes, you’ll be convinced that the person next to you is a robot. No human that happy on a StairMaster is real.
