Exercise you dont "count"

mclgo

I do plenty of activity that I don't count, but I see others doing so.
Mine include . . .
Housework
Parking far away from destinations
Climbing stairs at work
All the walking I do at work
Yardwork

What are yours?

gypsy_spirit

I only count my weight training, runs & yoga. Everything else I consider my life.

Sreneesa

I only count strength training and running on treadmill, tabata and agree with the above poster...everything else is life.

Edit: Sorry, I do not count my workout calories either. Someone below reminded me. I use the TDEE method and subtract 15-20 percent, but basically set my daily calories at 1800. I do not know how many calories I burn on the days I do exercise. I guess if I was adding exercise calories the above physical activity is what I would count. lol

anewdesign

i dont count the walking i do at work, or the walk from he bus to the office.. but, i do count the walk if i make the decision to opt out of the last bus (i take three to get to the office) and walk the 10mins. i also count the walk home, if i take the bus that drops me off further from home than the other route. in essence, i count exercise i make a conscious effort to do.

but in a less wordy format.

SezxyStef

I only count stuff I am doing that I wasn't doing while I was getting fat...

I gardened, I walked stairs at work, I did housework etc. while I was getting fat...

So I count my weight lifting and HIIT...

sunflowerhippi

I don't count most of activity as daily life.

1 day a week I do housecleaning for a family and since that is not part of my everyday schedule and is about 5 hours of cleaning I mark it as 1 hour of cleaning and say okay. I also log trail walks, weight lifting and anything at the gym.

SingingSingleTracker

I do plenty of activity that I don't count, but I see others doing so.
Mine include . . .
Housework
Parking far away from destinations
Climbing stairs at work
All the walking I do at work
Yardwork

What are yours?

I tend not to count anything that I would consider routine chores. Unless, it is a pretty intensive one like hauling 1000 pounds in bags of compost, manure, garden soil from my driveway to the garden, tilling and raking it in for a couple of hours and feeling exhausted at the end of the day. Or a big snow shovel session.

Stairs, walking to lunch, walking while shopping, house cleaning, etc...does not get counted.

I suppose it depends on how one has their profile programmed in the settings. I keep mine on Sedentary and plug in my workouts...

Sedentary: Spend most of the day sitting (e.g. bank teller, desk job)

Lightly Active: Spend a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher, salesman)

Active: Spend a good part of the day doing some physical activity (e.g. waitress, mailman)

Very Active: Spend most of the day doing heavy physical activity (e.g. bike messenger, carpenter)

TeaBea

I don't count "activities" either (it's included in activity level). Walking at work (for me) couldn't be considered exercise anyway. Not near enough speed or duration to have any cardio benefit.

I think most people don't log activities, but some people need to feel as though they are doing something.

FoxyLifter

Sex :blushing:

Platform_Heels

In the winter I count shoveling -- especially after a huge storm and I am shoveling for a good 2 hours -- because I don't normally shovel.

Occasionally I will count house work but only when I do a BIG clean (which can take 5 hours) and I'm constantly moving and dripping sweat at the end. But typically I don't

If I help my husband stack wood I'll count that because I don't do it all the time, ditto when hauling a ton of coal (literally) into the basement.

But other than that I only count my "regular" workouts.

aswearingen22

I do plenty of activity that I don't count, but I see others doing so.
Mine include . . .
Housework
Parking far away from destinations
Climbing stairs at work
All the walking I do at work
Yardwork

What are yours?

I wouldn't consider any of this "exercise". Exercise is when you purposefully work out to improve your cardiovascular fitness or your strength and you work up a sweat (so I count my runs, fitness classes, dvd's, bike rides, etc). I never count things like when we got to the zoo and walk all day, even though I don't "normally" do that, it's only a few hundred calories at best, it likely barely covers any miscalculations in what I ate for the day/week when I had to estimate. When I see these things listed as "exercise", it makes me sad. Those things are life.

holzeeg123

My activity is set as sedentary, so I count anything I deliberately do which isn't sedentary. For example, if I was going clothes shopping with a friend, I probably wouldn't count the 30-60 mins of walking. Basically, the only exercise I do is walking the dog and running, so I count those.

Saying that, yesterday I was out all day, and worked out that I had been walking for three hours, so I counted that

asciiqwerty

i count excercise ( swimming, cycling, hiking, walking to the pool, pilates,...)

I don't count walking round the office, climbing staris, fetching and carrying at home, gardening

i set my activity level as sedentary

cwolfman13

I do plenty of activity that I don't count, but I see others doing so.
Mine include . . .
Housework
Parking far away from destinations
Climbing stairs at work
All the walking I do at work
Yardwork

What are yours?

Actually, you do probably count it...in your overall activity level which is where you should account for it.

jeschauvin

I usually don't count my workout calories at all. I go to the gym 5-6 days per week and spend at least an hour working out. Sometimes cardio, mostly weight training. I used iifym calculator to figure out my TDEE and subtracted 15% for weight loss. If I find I've gotten a little out of hand with my calories for the day I'll do a little something after work like bike ridding or jogging and I'll count those calories (using a HRM) so I can eat a nice dinner.

Mischievous_Rascal

I use the TDEE method as well, so I keep a record of my workouts on here, but log them all as one calorie burned. It drives some people on my FL crazy.

caitconquersweight

My level is set at sedentary. Once or twice a week I do BIG cleaning jobs, like deep cleaning. I'm going up and down the stairs over and over, I'm on my hands and knees, I'm doing things I don't usually do every day. So I strap on the HRM and count that as exercise. Yeah, it takes a lot longer to burn an acceptable amount of calories, but whatever.

GretchenReine

Sex :blushing:

Me either! Hubby won't let me wear my HRM to figure it out!

I also don't count housework. I really only count the workouts that I'm making a conscious effort to do.

Frood42

From what I can see, those things would be part of the Activity Level that you set in MFP.
I personally have my activity level set to Sedentay and use a FitBit to capture anything above and beyond that level.

Things like my cycle commute to and from work gets recorded as Exercise outside my set Activity Level.
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arenad

Sex :blushing:

That's what I thought too. Lol

logicman69

Anything I do in the normal course of my day/week, I don't count.

Cleaning
Gardening
Laundry
Sex
Etc...

ColeCake292012

I have my activity level set at sedentary, so my FitBit activity is counted. I don't add in extra calorie burn from strength training or anything like that, because I don't eat back every single one of my exercise calories anyway.

jkwolly

Sex :blushing:

Me either! Hubby won't let me wear my HRM to figure it out!

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!

Platform_Heels

I do plenty of activity that I don't count, but I see others doing so.
Mine include . . .
Housework
Parking far away from destinations
Climbing stairs at work
All the walking I do at work
Yardwork

What are yours?

Actually, you do probably count it...in your overall activity level which is where you should account for it.

I was assuming the OP meant like how some people count housework as workouts.

darrensurrey

Walking unless it's something out of the ordinary. I mean, I'm sure I walk over a mile through aisles doing the shopping at the local supermarket.

Gardening... well, I hate it so log it as 50 billion calories.

MinnieInMaine

I don't log any of the things listed in the OP - except occassionally cleaning. Not the usual weekly stuff but the major extra tasks that I only do a few times a year like washing windows, cleaning cupboards, hauling/stacking wood.

sammama5

I only count things that aren't part of my ordinary routine.
I only eat back about 1/2 the calories that MFP calculates for me most days unless I still feel hungry. I'm trying to look more at balanced diet rather than strictly going by calories.

alaskamatteson

I only log the elliptical and walking (but only if I'm walking to exercise, not like walking down the aisles at the store). I don't log my strength training though.

Linnaea27

I don't count walking around at work, futzing about the house cooking and doing light cleaning (if I vaccuum and mop and spend 3 hours rushing around up and down stairs tidying up, I do count that since I do it at high intensity and get sweaty & tired). I often don't count all of the hours I spend gardening since I think the calorie burn number on here for that is high. . . I only count the full amount if I've been digging or hauling very heavy things for an extended period. And, sex! No way is that appearing on my exercise log! Yeek!

Like others have said, I include my walking about at work, cooking, and some outdoor activity in my activity setting on here, which is set to lightly active. It perhaps should be moderately active, as I've consistently lost weight faster than MFP tells me I should be, even logging activities like my deep cleaning, short (but intentional) walks, etc.

fireytiger

I work a sedentary desk job, but on my breaks I go outside and usually walk several laps around the building, either talking to hubby on the phone or not. I don't count that. Also, depending on how much walking we do, I don't count it if we go to the mall and walk around like we do on weekends (yes, we just walk around the mall, not shop, we're poor lol). Unless we were walking for hours, anyway, then I count some walking at the slowest pace I can find on MFP. However, no matter what exercise I do, I don't "eat it back" because i'm using my TDEE.

rebalee8

I have my activity level set at sedentary, so my FitBit activity is counted. I don't add in extra calorie burn from strength training or anything like that, because I don't eat back every single one of my exercise calories anyway.

I use a fitbit too, but I do log strength training. Basically, I only log things where my feet aren't moving that the fitbit won't capture. The only exception is snow shoveling, which it didn't seem to capture - I guess because you take small single steps at a time.