Can I count this as exercise?

three36love

My coworker and I spend our lunch hour walking up and down our two-story work building. It's 1/8 of a mile long, we walk down one end, up the stairs, down the hall, then down the stairs and so on for 60 minutes. We usually work up a mild sweat, my heart rate goes up on the stairs and we end up doing maybe 16 sets of stairs.

For the calories burned calculator, I input walking at 2.5mph (just a guess) and it says about 224 calories burned... but I always feel really guilty eating those back because they don't feel earned.

What do y'all think?

merrillfoster

It's exercise, and a decent amount at that. Add it!

AKosky585

I would say to count it. Add it in and good job!

AbbyLu

You earned them, that's awesome!

fixpc

YES YES YES a good one too i would think 500 Calories or more burned .30 min on the stair master would be 418 cal so that's only counting the climbing part

NoAdditives

Definitely count it!

623Hernandez

Hells yeah!! great job!

ladiluvbug83

I hope this helps you. When I first started out on my exercise journey I started with walking around our building at work. It was .3 of a mile and I would walk as many times as I could in 25 minutes (because I only get 30 min for lunch) instead of eating lunch.
Don't get me wrong I had lunch but it was normally a protien shake so I could drink while I walked. Well I kept it up for about 10 months. I of course added walking at home to my exercise regimen and now I can walk on the treadmill for an hour at a time without stopping. So I say yes definitely add it as your exercise. You have to get your exercise in any way, at any time you can. If you would like a new friend to help you with your journey you may add me to your list. By, the way thank you I think I am going to start my walking at lunch again.

SARAH

KatalynasMommy

I agree it counts, you could always try using a heart rate monitor or heart rate watch if you want to be more accurate.