Continuing yesterday's step theme :
When I was a kid my family would head over to Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens quite often, which is a massive area containing trees to hide behind, hills to roll down etc. All great fun. The thing that really sticks in my mind, however, is a guy with 'tree-trunk' thighs who seemed to love using the Gardens' massive stone steps for exercise each weekend. I wondered how it was possible to build legs that big using steps.
The latest article [.pdf, 498kb] by Virgil Aponte on the Diesel Crew site covers one of the major aspects of stair training - climbing. Some good ideas in there.