Calling all Exercise Haters
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sorry those links didn't work, but the articles are titled, "100 simple ways to lose weight" and "lose 35 lbs without working out" both from prevention.com0
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lynnstrick01 wrote: »JoshuaMcAllister wrote: »lynnstrick01 wrote: »This is an Idea I got from another discussion I was In:
I hate exercise, my mantra why on earth would you run unless someone is chasing you?
How many ways can we find to burn calories without the dreaded "exercise routine".. there is a website https://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc that calculates number of calories burned doing daily activites. some of the numbers will surprise you. Lets see if we can find enough of them that we don't have to do those boring workout routines
If you don't exercise how can you expect to be able to run from someone chasing you? Flawed logic there.
That is kind of the whole point, I am exercising, just not in a regimented form. I spent 2 hours mucking out my horses stall yesterday, rather than paying the neighborhood kid to do it, that was a whopping 780 calories burned.. much more than I would have burned at the gym and got something accomplished that needed to be done anyway.
If you do that once a week and other strenuous tasks technically you don't need to exercise, I always track activities such as this as I like to know exactly how many calories I burn. My worry is over doing it and not supplementing the extra calories burned. Also walking more frequently, using the stairs and not the lift, popping to the shop they all add up.
One thing I would say though is don't always take MFP word on calories burnt, I commute to work by bike and I use several apps to track. If I input the time and distance on MFP its usually always a good 100kcal more than the other two I would say were more trusted tracking apps.0 -
Thanks for the support, I use the healthstatus web page. I know none of them can be completely accurate. too many variables, How heavy was each shovel full of yuk, how fast were you working at it, did you stop to wipe sweat, but I figure as long as it is pretty close that is good enough for me because there are still a lot of things that NO ONE tracks. how far did you walk to and from the bathroom today, are you that person who constantly wiggles their foot when sitting, the site I use even counts calories for brushing your teeth and driving.. no way I am going to count those.. so I think it pretty much comes out in the end0
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It makes me sad that so many hate to exercise , my solution is to find something that's fun there's so much out there its not only good for you physically but mentally as well
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I do get your point. Slaving away on the dreadmill is not my idea of fun, but I want to eat a whole lot more than sweeping the floor is going to allow me. I found other activities that I really enjoy that burn a ton: martial arts, trampoline, swimming pool (especially those with a slide. I think I got 50 flights of stairs lol), running outside with Zombies!Run which got me up to doing mud runs.... Basically ninja training. Some "chores" are good like shoveling snow or mowing the lawn. Most activities are fun. I wish I had more friends that were into it: kayaking, volleyball, tennis, dodge ball (mentioned above) sounds like so much fun, going out dancing, tag with your kids if you have them, hiking to a new waterfall, biking etc
See the world, grab the bull by the horns, and have a blast! Then there is no gym needed. Needs more time and planning though.0 -
I do get your point. Slaving away on the dreadmill is not my idea of fun, but I want to eat a whole lot more than sweeping the floor is going to allow me. I found other activities that I really enjoy that burn a ton: martial arts, trampoline, swimming pool (especially those with a slide. I think I got 50 flights of stairs lol), running outside with Zombies!Run which got me up to doing mud runs.... Basically ninja training. Some "chores" are good like shoveling snow or mowing the lawn. Most activities are fun. I wish I had more friends that were into it: kayaking, volleyball, tennis, dodge ball (mentioned above) sounds like so much fun, going out dancing, tag with your kids if you have them, hiking to a new waterfall, biking etc
See the world, grab the bull by the horns, and have a blast! Then there is no gym needed. Needs more time and planning though.
Yeah, I wish I liked all that stuff, the truth is I am kind of clumsy and not very good at most sports (even when I was a skinny kid) Now as a 47 year old woman I am still kind of awkward at that stuff and I guess maybe a little emotionally scarred from being made fun of as a kid. If I tried to play a sport I would absolutely DIE from embarrassment, and forget joining a gym and doing aerobics or zumba in front of all those people.
I have some exercise equipment at home, a stair stepper and an elliptical machine, and I try to make myself get on those a little each day, but can't manage to stick with it long enough to even bother to log it.
Mostly though I KNOW MYSELF, I know that I can kick myself in the butt, get on that elliptical, work my way up to 30 mins or more per day .. but I also know that if anything happens to interrupt that routine I will fall off the wagon and won't get back on until I'm back in trouble with weight again.
That is why I want to be more realistic, the animals have to be cared for, the grocery shopping has to be done, the house has to be cleaned, I won't make excuses not to do those things, so If I can just burn more calories while I am doing them to keep me in shape I will have it made.0 -
lynnstrick01 wrote: »I do get your point. Slaving away on the dreadmill is not my idea of fun, but I want to eat a whole lot more than sweeping the floor is going to allow me. I found other activities that I really enjoy that burn a ton: martial arts, trampoline, swimming pool (especially those with a slide. I think I got 50 flights of stairs lol), running outside with Zombies!Run which got me up to doing mud runs.... Basically ninja training. Some "chores" are good like shoveling snow or mowing the lawn. Most activities are fun. I wish I had more friends that were into it: kayaking, volleyball, tennis, dodge ball (mentioned above) sounds like so much fun, going out dancing, tag with your kids if you have them, hiking to a new waterfall, biking etc
See the world, grab the bull by the horns, and have a blast! Then there is no gym needed. Needs more time and planning though.
Yeah, I wish I liked all that stuff, the truth is I am kind of clumsy and not very good at most sports (even when I was a skinny kid) Now as a 47 year old woman I am still kind of awkward at that stuff and I guess maybe a little emotionally scarred from being made fun of as a kid. If I tried to play a sport I would absolutely DIE from embarrassment, and forget joining a gym and doing aerobics or zumba in front of all those people.
I have some exercise equipment at home, a stair stepper and an elliptical machine, and I try to make myself get on those a little each day, but can't manage to stick with it long enough to even bother to log it.
Mostly though I KNOW MYSELF, I know that I can kick myself in the butt, get on that elliptical, work my way up to 30 mins or more per day .. but I also know that if anything happens to interrupt that routine I will fall off the wagon and won't get back on until I'm back in trouble with weight again.
That is why I want to be more realistic, the animals have to be cared for, the grocery shopping has to be done, the house has to be cleaned, I won't make excuses not to do those things, so If I can just burn more calories while I am doing them to keep me in shape I will have it made.
I really think you're selling yourself short here, honestly, because that is stuff that most everyone does, not anything that's going to contribute substantially to your improved health (or even to significant calorie burn.) But you're only hurting yourself by not doing the physical activity needed to keep your muscles, bones, and cardiovascular system in the best condition possible, especially as you age.
The bottom line is that increasing your movement during daily activities is a good thing and it will contribute to a slightly higher daily energy expenditure, but if weight loss is your goal then you're better off paying strict attention to your diet than by trying to burn calories by taking the stairs or whatever. If improving your health rather than weight loss is your goal, then you will need to do some real exercise as a part of your day, something where you push your heart rate and your muscles.
Any physical activity is better than none, but having such a defeatist attitude about exercise is holding you back far more than any perceived limitations you think you have.0 -
Though I think looking at calories from brushing teeth or driving is just over the top, certain people don't have to make exercise efforts to stay in shape.
People in quite a few jobs, lifestyles, etc stay in shape without heading to a gym or owning exercise equipment. I actually enjoyed when I was in such positions, and in hindsight was overall more fit most of the time. But is sucks if you are sick or have an injury.0 -
I have cut the calories, and am losing, guess I should have mentioned that0
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lynnstrick01 wrote: »I have cut the calories, and am losing, guess I should have mentioned that
Okay, that's great, if that's all you care about then you certainly don't have to exercise. Weight loss doesn't require it (because, for example, a 5K run for me might only burn 200 calories, which is, what? a latte?) and your calorie deficit is all you need to lose.
I would just be very cautious about thinking about daily activities as "exercise" because for most people, they just aren't and it's not improving your health. Again, if you don't care about that and you just want to lose weight, then this is all pointless, but don't kid yourself into thinking that parking far away or ironing or taking out the garbage is going to have many health benefits unless you're going from literally zero activity.0 -
I don't think my attitude is defeatist, I think it is realistic, How many people get really psyched, go on a crash diet, hit the gym hard for 6 months lose the weight, tone up, get where they want to be, and quit... then 6 months to a year later they are right back where they started from.. this is because they made MAJOR changes that they were not willing or able (for whatever reason) to keep up the lifestyle ... Been there done that..... this time I simply want to make lifestyle changes in both eating habits and exercise that I feel confident I will stick with..
Even at about 30 lbs over weight I am still pretty healthy and active. I live in the country where there is LOTS of physical work to be done, mending fences, caring for animals, property maintenance on almost 7 acres, trimming trees and hauling debris, we have lots of trees so lots of work raking a picking up leaves, I do all the mowing and trimming (heavy gas weed eater) buying and unloading multiple 50lb feed bags every week for the animals..and I do it all, because my husband works on his job over 60 hours a week If I were really all that unhealthy I don't think I would be able to maintain this level of activity.
My weight is not stopping me from being healthy at this point, but I know that being over weight for long periods of time can cause a lot of problems that I don't want to deal with. and on the Short Term I just want to LOOK Better.
I didn't get fat because of lack of movement, I got fat because I had TERRIBLE eating habits.. and because I LOVE wine and soda, and because a lot of the "work" mentioned above is not consistent, It is done kind of "as needed" so I am trying to work in some calorie burners that are more routine.0 -
sorry if that sounded like a rant.. It's just that a lot of people seem to be thinking poor lynnstrick, needs encouragement to exercise.. and although I truly do appreciate the encouraging words, that is not really what I was hoping this thread would be.
I wanted it to be a kind of fun way for other like minded people, who aren't really crazy about REGIMENTED exercise to share ways to burn calories without the actual WORK-OUT routine.0 -
I'm not really talking about your weight at all here. When I say "health" it's not meant to be a euphemism for "weight".
If you are doing all that manual labour, I'm not sure why you are worrying about whether or not you're taking the stairs or packing your own groceries. You seem to keep changing what you're stating in your posts each time about your lifestyle and I'm not understanding why. If you spend your whole day doing manual labour then of course you might not need to hit the gym, but that was not AT ALL the impression you were giving in previous posts.
I'm now not really getting what your point is here at all, frankly.0 -
ok.. sorry i gave wrong impression.. the thing is that the manual labor is not consistent day in and day out, It is pretty much "as needed" I may go weeks without having to do much other than caring for the animals, then all at once, there are tons of things to do.
That is why I am looking for the day to day stuff to kind of fill in the blanks when I have spurts of not so much to do ..0 -
Based on human physiology, we didn't need to exercise when first arriving. Agriculture and food abundance changed all that for us along with technology. So I could see how maybe instinctively, exercise is something we don't strive for. Like anything now, most people who love exercise do it because of habitual behavior. Oh and dopamine.It makes me sad that so many hate to exercise , my solution is to find something that's fun there's so much out there its not only good for you physically but mentally as well
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Lol that was me getting ready for every bodybuilding contest. Ah pizza.lynnstrick01 wrote: »How many people get really psyched, go on a crash diet, hit the gym hard for 6 months lose the weight, tone up, get where they want to be, and quit... then 6 months to a year later they are right back where they started from.. this is because they made MAJOR changes that they were not willing or able (for whatever reason) to keep up the lifestyle ...
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lynnstrick01 wrote: »That is why I am looking for the day to day stuff to kind of fill in the blanks when I have spurts of not so much to do ..
I'm a bit baffled about why you're posting in the fitness and exercise forum about how to burn calories without exercising per se.
You stay at home and don't work, which gives you the luxury of being able to do things manually. If it works for you then that's fine.
Personally I work two jobs on a sixty to seventy hour week and have a disabled partner at home. Running and cycling is my headspace. It's not about the calories. If anything the calories are the least important aspect. It helps keep me sane.0 -
Based on human physiology, we didn't need to exercise when first arriving. Agriculture and food abundance changed all that for us along with technology. So I could see how maybe instinctively, exercise is something we don't strive for. Like anything now, most people who love exercise do it because of habitual behavior. Oh and dopamine.It makes me sad that so many hate to exercise , my solution is to find something that's fun there's so much out there its not only good for you physically but mentally as well
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Need the "like" button here.. this is spot on..
Oh yeah and I need my fix! LOL
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MeanderingMammal wrote: »lynnstrick01 wrote: »That is why I am looking for the day to day stuff to kind of fill in the blanks when I have spurts of not so much to do ..
I'm a bit baffled about why you're posting in the fitness and exercise forum about how to burn calories without exercising per se.
You stay at home and don't work, which gives you the luxury of being able to do things manually. If it works for you then that's fine.
Personally I work two jobs on a sixty to seventy hour week and have a disabled partner at home. Running and cycling is my headspace. It's not about the calories. If anything the calories are the least important aspect. It helps keep me same.
Maybe I should have posted in "just for fun" I did it here because I am talking about exercise and fitness, just a different KIND of exercise. I really didn't think that a title "calling all exercise haters" would be taken so seriously0
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