Am I active?

shabaity

I'm not sure if I should count as active or lightly active. I average around 8k steps a day according to my pedometer, though on days I work this can be as many 15k. Take an mma class twice a week for 45 min - 1 hour, and 5 times a week I do my intensity list twice which I've modified as its geared more towards the Karate students than what I'm learning which includes: 10 pushups, 10 straight leg lifts from sitting, 10 prisoner squats, 10 dips from a chair or bench, 10 front and back leg round sets, and 10 jab, cross sets. The only thing logged in this is about half of the mma classes logged as Jiu Jitsu since that is the focus of at least one class each week. Any thoughts?

Liftng4Lis

Your activity level is normal daily activity and sounds lightly active. Exercise should be logged separately.

azulvioleta6

That sounds like lightly active.

rainbowbow

Agree it is lightly active. Sedentary is roughly 5,000~ steps, between 5-10,000 is lightly active, 10,000+ is active, and 12,500+ is very active.

Your exercise is considered separate.

shabaity

I count the list as normal activity because its practice for the class, if that makes sense. Don't practice don't get better.

ana3067

Doesn't matter. Pick an activity level that you think sounds accurate to you, eat the caloric goal that you are given, and monitor your results. If you are trying to maintain and you gain, then lower your activity level or just manually remove 100 cals and monitor. If you want to lose and you maintain or gain, then use the same procedure.

If you are doing net method then count anything that you do on a regular basis outside of planned exercise. If you want to count your practice stuff as part of your daily routine then that's fine, as long as you don't subsequently log it again for exercise cals.

shabaity

Honestly with that list I'm not sure how. And it just feels like I'm doing a lot more than I was when I was counting myself as lightly active and losing a pound a week.

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ana3067

What are your goals right now? Still looking to lose 1lb/week, or did you lower it to maybe 0.5lbs? How much are you actually losing now?

If you are losing faster than you want, either start logging the practice as a workout and eat back the cals or increase your goal by 100 cals and see how your body responds for a few weeks. If you are losing slower than you want then clearly you just need to lower the goal a bit. TBH the practice doesn't sound like it's that intensive, so it'd probably be easier to just increase or decrease your net/gross goal by a bit to compensate if it's affecting your weight loss weekly goals.

shabaity

@MrM27‌ No I'm asking for opinions, considering whats given, and adding details as I feel necessary. I'm a vaguely obsessive person who turns things over in my mind over and over and over.

@ana3067‌ It isn't I've plans to add more as I learn more but that is what I've learned that can be practiced with out another person.