Retail life and calorie counting

claudzilla

I work in a "big box" paint department. Three days a week we get freight we put away ourselves. I count the number of hours on my feet as walking, slow pace because out of six hours I sit or stop for maybe 30 minutes. My question is this...I lift boxes off the pallet, into a carriage, on to the shelf over and over. The boxes can weigh anywhere from 1-25 lbs. I bust my butt! There has to be a calorie burn with just the repetition of this. How do a count it?

DancingDreamer

moving furniture is already on here as a cardio exercise, personally i would use that. or create your own called "moving boxes" and use the amount of calories burned from "moving furniture" cause you're totally right! carrying things back and forth burns WAY more calories then walking without carrying anything does!

CFAITH_WARD

Get a Heart Rate Monitor and count it off....You can create a new cario exercise then use your time and calorie count.

Laceylala

Depends. What do you have your lifestyle set as in your calorie goals? Sedentary? Active? Etc.?
If you have it set to active, then I don't think you would want to count that physical activity because the program has already done it for you.
If you have your lifestyle set to sedentary or lightly active, then yes, you'd want to count that as exercise.

If you go with the second route...Since you "only" do it three times a week, I'd count it as light moving or moving furniture or something, instead of walking. You most definitely burn more cals than just walking.