Can you count going to theme parks as a daily exercise quota.

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  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    jacksonpt wrote: »
    snarlingcoyote wrote: »
    jacksonpt wrote: »
    snarlingcoyote wrote: »
    jacksonpt wrote: »
    Here's my take -

    Is it steps/exercise to improve health and conditioning? Sure.

    Is it exercise to help create a calorie deficit and lose weight? Not in my book.

    Calories burn when you move. Even if you pass by Alice and Belle at the time. If you don't account for all calories burned for any activity, longterm you will never be able to know how many calories you actually use.

    Thanks for the remedial lesson on energy expenditure. I'm well aware.
    Then you understand that if someone burn 2K calories at WDW, those are calories burned and if that indivdual walks 15 miles, those are miles walked. . .

    Yes, I understand that calories burned are calories burned, and steps taken are steps walked. But...

    I've been to disney recently, and I'd be shocked if I walked off 2000 cals in the week I was there, never mind in a single day. 15 miles??? yea, no.

    It might be possible, but the average person ain't doing that.

    I think you're doing Disney wrong. The minimum I walked was 7 miles. Most days were around 10, and the day I went 12 miles, started with a 5K race (so truly walked 9 miles that day, after the race). 15 is not impossible - we never stayed until park close because we had a 2 year old with us.
  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    Probably could log it was slow walking. If you have an exercise app like mapmywalk or endomondo, you can just leave it running and have a pretty good idea of distance travelled. One caveat: pretty much all calculators will give you a gross calorie burn, so you've got a significant double-dip problem unless you knock off your base burn calories.
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