Unsure of my activity level

carracer3541

I'm unsure of what to classify myself in terms of how active I am.

Every day I walk/jog for at least 2 hours and generally I strive to go longer than 2 and get closer to 3.

I do about forty minutes of HIIT cardio in the form of body weight exercises 6 times a week.

I lift weights for about 50-90 minutes 5 times a week. I do an ab workout everyday for about 15-20 minutes.

I also am a student which means I must walk around campus and I have a job that I work a few hours a day which requires me to walk and stand and also have me occasionally lift objects but nothing more than 40/50 lbs.

I don't know if this would be considerd lightly active or active, any suggestions.

malibu927

Lightly active and log your exercises separately

4legsRbetterthan2

Sounds very active to me, or what she said ^^^^

marelthu

If what you're doing is lightly active I'm doomed. Doomed. I would say you're very active.

sbrandt37

Activity level refers to your background activity level, not your workouts. I would guess lightly active. Then you should log your workouts. MFP adds in calories for the workouts separately. If you find you are starving and losing weight too quickly, bump it up to active.

AverageJoeFit

I think of activity level as only what you do Monday through Friday. So you have school and work. That does involve walking but also sitting.

I would say lightly active in you normal day to day life. The walk/jog, hiit and weights are all above and beyond a normal life style. Log those as exercise calories.

For me I don't count the 15000 steps I get per day running around the house playing with my kids, or wrestling with them, or picking them up holding them for hours on end. That's my lightly active every day stuff. Not my 6 Miles of run or the hour of lifting weights.