Am i active if a good amount of my 10,000 steps come from exercise

CristinaCalifri1103
CristinaCalifri1103 Posts: 10 Member
edited September 2016 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone,
So I got to the gym 6 days a week. 4 out of those six days I do 30 minutes of elliptical machine after about 45mins to 1 hour of lifting.

When I log my calories I only log my cardio. Which comes from my chest strap.

What I was wondering is, am I still considered "active " by mfp standards if most of my steps comes from my cardio.

I always hit 10,000 steps at the end of the day, but most of them come from my 30 minutes of cardio.

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  • T0M_K
    T0M_K Posts: 7,526 Member
    i'd call you active
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Your activity level on MFP is your daily activity apart from exercise. If the majority of your steps come from exercise, then you wouldn't be active as MFP defines the term.

  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited September 2016
    CristinaCalifri1103 wrote: »
    What I was wondering is, am I still considered "active " by mfp standards if most of my steps comes from my cardio.

    You mean for activity level?

    The answer is no, but...

    MFP uses a system where you normally include only daily activity other than intentional exercise in the activity level and then log back exercise AND eat the extra calories (or a portion of them). If you are doing this, then your activity level should take into account how active you are without the exercise. (If most steps are from the elliptical, possibly sedentary.)

    However, if you aren't eating back exercise, then you might want to use a higher activity level, which isn't too different than the way people using the TDEE method (using a non MFP method of determining calories including average expected exercise) do.

    It's all estimates, though, so the most important question is whether you are losing at the expected rate? (You may be too new to know yet, of course.)
  • CristinaCalifri1103
    CristinaCalifri1103 Posts: 10 Member
    I have myself at "not very active" so that's sedentary. And I'm eating at 1200 calories a day + my exercise calories. So I guess I'll stick at that :)
  • sllm1
    sllm1 Posts: 2,130 Member
    I stick with sedentary, because I have a desk job and then add the extra calories for exercise.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    At 1200, I would definitely eat exercise calories, so that sounds good.

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