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Logging exercise - when is it worth it?

Iknowsaur
Iknowsaur Posts: 777 Member
edited February 14 in Health and Weight Loss
So I guess I was wondering what you guys consider log-worthy and not log-worthy in terms of exercise. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post it, but fitness seemed even worse.

If I do something for like 30 minutes + I usually log it, like playing wii tennis (although the burn estimate seems too high to eat it back, I think the input is off.)

But I also do little things, like a minute wall sit every time I get up, or a 15 minute dance party if I've been sitting around too long. I'm home-bound for awhile and have a knee injury, so my exercise options are pretty limited.

I also do some crunches and leg raises and calf raises and stuff. Light 5 pound weights.

What is actually worth logging?

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  • littlebrownbat3
    littlebrownbat3 Posts: 54 Member
    So, for me, a big part of the joy of logging is seeing increase in ability over time. Personally, my approved parking lot got moved, and now my car is a 20 minute walk away, but I don't log that walk. I do, however, log my "intended" excercise, elliptical time, and the increase in weights I lift religiously. I don't do it to help monitor the effect in terms of weight loss, but in terms of optimizing me.

    I think it depends on your goals, but overall, I don't think you need to, if you know that really you are sedentary.
  • farway
    farway Posts: 1,251 Member
    It depends on how you have entered your lifestyle, if down as sedentary then all exercise above your normal life, excluding walking in the kitchen, going upstairs sort of stuff, counts

    Some include gardening, even vigorous housework, it just depends how "abnormal" it is to you

    MFP overestimates cals burnt, it is the opinion of most

    You could add all the wall sits up, same with dance party times

    Because of the MFP overestimates some [including me] do not eat back, some eat half back, just depends on the MFP cals burnt really & how you feel, there is not a hard & fast rule
  • Iknowsaur
    Iknowsaur Posts: 777 Member
    It depends on how you have entered your lifestyle, if down as sedentary then all exercise above your normal life, excluding walking in the kitchen, going upstairs sort of stuff, counts

    Some include gardening, even vigorous housework, it just depends how "abnormal" it is to you

    MFP overestimates cals burnt, it is the opinion of most

    You could add all the waal sits up, same with dance party times

    Because of the MFP overestimates some [including me] do not eat back, some eat half back, just depends on the MFP cals burnt really & how you feel, there is not a hard & fast rule

    That makes sense. Wallsits aren't cardio anyway, so there isn't even a calorie burn attributed to it.
    I am set to sedentary though, so maybe I'll log extra walking or wii tennis or whatever.
    Thanks :D
  • Cheri0830
    Cheri0830 Posts: 37 Member
    I think it's all worth it, it is energy spent, that you would not have been doing and as you said right now your limited, so it all counts, it is burnt energy. Hang in there you can do it!!!
  • arabianhorselover
    arabianhorselover Posts: 1,488 Member
    Well, I do abdominal work and back stretches for about 10 minutes a day, 5 days per week, but I don't log that. I do log walks of at least 15 minutes, weight training, and snow shoveling.
  • mschicagocubs
    mschicagocubs Posts: 774 Member
    I only log anything where I burned over 100 calories.

    On the days where I am running around doing errands a lot or cleaning the house ... yes it is more than my usual desk job, but I dont log it ... what I will do is have that 60 calorie chocolate chip cookie if I want it and it doesnt fit in my calories because the odds are I worked it off today.
  • kk_140
    kk_140 Posts: 518 Member
    I only log exercise when I think "I'm going out to work out" and then go do it.

    I don't log Walking up the stairs on campus or shoveling snow because that is just stuff I do all the time.
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