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This is still real-world, but there must be some correlation.

 

"How Many Steps are in a...

• 1 mile = 2,000 – 2,500 steps

• 1 mile = 5, 280 feet

• The average step length for an adult is 2.5 feet

• Most adults walk 2 – 4 miles per hour.

• Most adults walk about about 750 – 1,500 steps in 10 minutes.

• One city block is about 200 steps.

• 10,000 steps is 4 – 5 miles.

• One flight of stairs averages 10 steps.

• Average distance, round trip, from a couch to a TV-8 steps.

• Most school tracks are _ mile=500-625 steps."

 

So, every 10 strides on the stairmaster is a story. 'bout the same as the trip from the couch to the TV, if it were uphill.

 

 

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if you want to relate it to a real world measure of elevation gain (like hiking a steep trail) you would need to measure the vertical displacement of YOUR centre of mass per step on the machine and then multiply by the number of steps you take.

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Finally! CFF has something useful. No, the machine at my gym does not have a vertical gain stat, and that's exactly what I was trying to figure out. It's also some version or other of the Nautilus Stairmaster so I'll assume that definition of a "floor" is the same. One floor in stairmaster world=10.66 feet, 94 floors=1000 ft. Before you go off, I KNOW it's just an estimate, it's also an indoor gym. :-p Thanks CFF.

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