Help calculate exercise

Tourniquet5
Tourniquet5 Posts: 18 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Well I love my fitness pal but I wish the key word search was more stupid people friendly lol. If you misspell one thing that's it for your search.

I work In an office and it's mostly a night time front desk job. But behind me are 3 floors of stairs. I'm trying to add them on as an exercise but having trouble calculating. Like say up and down all 3 flights 5 times. That sounds like a start. Any questions or comments would be appreciated thank you.

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  • Tourniquet5
    Tourniquet5 Posts: 18 Member
    Bump
  • jessicameadsstephens
    jessicameadsstephens Posts: 56 Member
    Use the Running up stairs and enter your time and perhaps cut the calories burned in half to account for when you go down them.
  • knra_grl
    knra_grl Posts: 1,566 Member
    http://www.self.com/calculatorsprograms/calculators/caloriesburned/stair_stepping
  • ivoryodums
    ivoryodums Posts: 1
    U have a question ... I just started using my fitness pal and I'm a little confused ...u start out with how many calories u can't eat .. So I add my food and my workouts.. So when u burn off those calories it give u more calories u can consume for the rest of that day ... ???? . I dnt understand how u use all your calrioes when I end my entry for the day I have calories left over and they tell me that I'm not eating enough calories .. I dnt understand can someone help me
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    U have a question ... I just started using my fitness pal and I'm a little confused ...u start out with how many calories u can't eat .. So I add my food and my workouts.. So when u burn off those calories it give u more calories u can consume for the rest of that day ... ???? . I dnt understand how u use all your calrioes when I end my entry for the day I have calories left over and they tell me that I'm not eating enough calories .. I dnt understand can someone help me

    MFP gave you a calorie deficit with ZERO exercise. That way people who can't/won't exercise still lose weight. MFP adds exercise calories back in to prevent the deficit from becoming too big.

    The trick is....calculating how many calories you actually burned. MFP uses estimates. Many activities give "generous" counts. I would eat a portion of calories back.....say 60%....& see if you are still losing.....then adjust as needed.

    Timing of eating back calories is not important. If you know you are working out later on.....add them to your lunch if you want.
  • bizco
    bizco Posts: 1,949 Member
    Determine the time it takes to complete, then log it as "Aerobics, general" under the Cardio section of the Exercise tab.

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