TDEE Exercise

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kathymhardy
kathymhardy Posts: 278 Member
in Fitness and Exercise

So when I’m answering the option regarding exercise, I’m unsure what to tick. I walk on average 12000 steps each day. 7500 on the treadmill and the remainder things like school run, walk to village shop and general walking round the home doing chores, etc. Would I class thus as moderate exercise?

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  • kathymhardy
    kathymhardy Posts: 278 Member

    bump

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,803 Member
    edited June 13

    I would choose "Active" in the Activity Level setting here on Myfitnesspal if you're not planning to use the treadmill as designated "Exercise."

    No one can really answer this for you, you'll have to run the experiment. Try it for a month and then adjust if you're not seeing the results you chose in your Goals. That's what we all have to do.

    Here's the Myfitnesspal explanation:

    How-does-MyFitnessPal-calculate-my-initial-goals

  • kathymhardy
    kathymhardy Posts: 278 Member

    Thank you. I’ll try that.

  • rsccore
    rsccore Posts: 29 Member
    edited June 29

    You should try to think in terms of calories, just as you do when tracking food. The terms sedentary, lightly active, active, etc. do have specific meanings, but are just general levels. For example, sedentary is a TDEE = 1.2 x BMR and moderately active is a TDEE = 1.55 x BMR.

    During weight loss, your deficit is your TDEE minus your intake, so that is just a combination of restrictive eating and/or exercising more. But after the weight is off, you should have a target for your TDEE such that when you are at least that active on average per day, you do not gain weight. The current recommendations are for at least 150 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous activity, but up to an hour or more per day. 10k steps for example is 90 minutes of brisk walking, which would be 630 minutes of moderate activity per week.

    As others say, in the end you watch the scale and experiment, but it is good to have a general estimate of calories burned for certain activities. For walking/running, this calculator is pretty good…

    ExRx.net : Walk / Run Metabolic Calculator

    For other activities, search the internet to get a fair estimate.

    12k steps of actual brisk walking (not random stuff) would be moderately active btw, which is 90 to 120 minutes of brisk walking. Something like 12% inclined walking would take half that much time. Running, a bit less. Resistance training is about the same as brisk walking.

  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,374 Member
    edited July 1

    daily movement around the house and around town is related to ACTIVITY LEVEL setting. if you want to include your exercise in the activity level setting, just make sure you don’t double dip and ALSO record it as exercise for the day.

    i prefer to set myself to low activity level then record my intentional cardio movement as exercise since that’s where more of my steps actually come from

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