Logging calories burnt during overtime shift at work?

cazziecoo
cazziecoo Posts: 29 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I know you shouldn't log everyday calories burnt as exercise however I am on my feet all day when I am at work which is normally just on a Saturday, however yesterday I did an extra 6 hour shift at work and wore my heart rate monitor - I burned 1024 calories during the time I walked to work, did my shift and walked home from work, I know I would have burnt some of these calories being sat at home anyway but I just wondered would you log these calories as exercise seeing as they are outside of my normal routine or not?

I asked this question to my friends and some said yes and some said just to log half. what do you think?

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  • SweeDecadence92
    SweeDecadence92 Posts: 218 Member
    I'm interested to see the answers I'm mostly sedentary but have an active part time job, like yourself

    Personally, I don't log them though.
  • CloudyMao
    CloudyMao Posts: 258 Member
    I did an extra 6 hour shift at work and wore my heart rate monitor - I burned 1024 calories during the time I walked to work, did my shift and walked home from work.

    Holy crap - 6 hours over 1000kcal burned from activitiy alone (HRM only calculates your heart rate so it tries to calculate calories burned according to that) That is a HELL of a burn, for the same kind of burn from a traditional exercise that would be equal to something like moderate intensity stationary bike or treadmill for the same amount of time.

    Anyway to answer your question, I would personally only log 'constructed/planned' exercise sessions. Do try to make sure you eat enough to cover your daily needs though.
  • EdTheGinge
    EdTheGinge Posts: 1,616 Member
    I'd just change your activity level rather adding these, as the above said stick with planned exercise.
  • JonathanLepoff
    JonathanLepoff Posts: 46 Member
    I also use a heart rate monitor and although I generally only wear it for formal exercise, I probably would wear it in the case you describe and count the calories.
    Six hours on your feet at work plus the walk plus back and forth 1024 sounds about right
  • oinkerjnn
    oinkerjnn Posts: 85 Member
    I'm going the other direction here. I rarely have strenuous work days, I'm in real estate. But once in a while I will have to do a repair myself on a house, be it running crown moulding, tiling floor, or hanging interior doors. I generally log that exercise since I treat it like a workout, power walking or jogging from point a to point b, and generally hustling the whole time. Sometimes i will press or curl something heavy as. I am carrying it just for added burn.

    I won't always take the whole time (in my deduction section) since the caloric burn estimates are just absurd but I still do a portion of. It.

    Fact is I am physically exhausted on those days, its hard exercise. If I did this daily, I would just adjust my settings, but like the OP, this is an extra event, so therefore it gets logged.

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