Question re: Calores burned while teaching

xenasmomma

Hello everyone,
I am a part-time college professor and I lecture 3 hrs/day. I don't sit down the whole time except when classes change once. ( 10 minutes) I am on my feet, walking around the classroom etc. Not heart-rate thrilling or anything but still I am not entirely sedentary. Is there even a countable calorie burn for this? Or is this just part of a normal daily movement? I tried entering it in the exercise calculator, but "standing" or "teaching" doesn't come up.
Any ideas? Thoughts on this? Thanks!

TeaBea

Your sedentary activity level should already include many non-exercise type things. You could bump it up to lightly active.

I use a FitBit One, it records steps beyond my stated MFP activity level. Logging steps as exercise may give you very generous estimates, especially if you are "double dipping."

xenasmomma

Thank You TeaBea. I set my activity level to lightly active when I joined thinking about my teaching, so I don't think I will count it as "extra" exercise. I think it is easy for us to over-calculate our activity and that can give (me) the wrong impression of calories "earned." I do take the stairs however, 8 flights all tolled, so I add that in since I think that is strength as well as cardio. Thanks again.