Where would you put my activity level for TDEE??

cassienoe
cassienoe Posts: 126 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
So I work at a desk 8 hours a day. I get up for bathroom breaks etc or deliver files or whatever but not a ton of walking. After work I am doing the 30 day shred. Planning on taking a break from the shred over the weekend and maybe just walk or hike or maybe even do nothing at all and just having a real rest day. Not sure what activity level I should choose for my TDEE? Suggestions?

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  • KezzRezz
    KezzRezz Posts: 8
    I'd put your activity level as sedentry, then log your exercises seperately. That's the most accurate way, that way if you miss a day of the shred or whatever, you can account for it! :)
  • PunkinSpice79
    PunkinSpice79 Posts: 309 Member
    I'd put your activity level as sedentry, then log your exercises seperately. That's the most accurate way, that way if you miss a day of the shred or whatever, you can account for it! :)

    That's what I do. Totally agree. :)
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    I agree with sedentary and adding exercise calories back. You will get the most accurate idea of how many calories you burn doing 30DS if you have a heart rate monitor, but you can find some on line estimators for your specific weight.
  • cassienoe
    cassienoe Posts: 126 Member
    That is actually what I was doing! And switched to TDEE because I thought it would be simpler. I'm not exactly sure how many cals I'm burning doing the shred. I have a bluetooth HRM and I was using MapMyFitness to log the workouts. Under "other workout video" it said I burned 125 cals and doing the exact same workout under "circuit training:cardio" it said I burned 282! So something is definitely screwed up and I think it's calculating my calories based on the workout chosen and I'm pretty sure my heart rate has nothing to do with it!
  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    For TDEE, I'd say probably 1.3 activity multiplier from your BMR
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    Reduce guess work by using this for calculating TDEE
    http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/CalRequire.html

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