What Exercises 'Earn' Calories?

kbam17
kbam17 Posts: 14 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I've never counted any of my daily activities (like cleaning or working), but after each weight-lifting day, I take a half hour walk to cool down/stretch out. Should this walk be logged, even if my heart rate isn't raised? It earns on average 100 calories that I try to eat back, but I'm wondering if I should only count more strenuous cardio activities in addition to my strength training. Thank you!

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  • kbam17
    kbam17 Posts: 14 Member
    The reason i ask is because I really want to nourish my body even while losing weight. I've done the under-eating thing and it really messed with my metabolism. I just don't know where the line between over-indulging and doing it right lies.
  • JenMc14
    JenMc14 Posts: 2,389 Member
    I don't personally log my cool down or my warm up, although I have in the past. However, I don't walk for 1/2 an hour after, most days, either. If it's a fairly briski pace, I'm thinking 15 minute mile, perhaps even 17 minute mile, although I don't consider that brisk, I might count it. Anything slower than that, and i probably wouldn't.
  • meganfoster12
    meganfoster12 Posts: 411 Member
    I log everything and anything; such as my warm up which is a 10 minute walk and i also count cleaning or cooking meals
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    Log whatever you want. I've seen people log showering, doing their hair, getting the mail. I don't consider cooking or cleaning to be log worthy exercise, those are life. You can log your walk but I don't think you'll become nutritionally deficient or go into the dreaded starvation mode from not eating it back.
  • kbam17
    kbam17 Posts: 14 Member
    Thanks for your input, guys! That cool-down walk is usually at about 3 mph pace. It's pretty casual and doesn't challenge me at all. I have just wondered if it really was 'exercise' at all if it wasn't strenuous in some way. I think I may have been overzealous by logging and eating back that walk every other day.

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