Can I count housework as a workout?
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I_Will_End_You wrote: »First off, sweating heavily because it's hot doesn't mean you're burning more calories. Second, I would not personally count your every day activities as exercise.
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I just wear my phone so it logs the steps and count them. It's probably much the same effort as a moderate walk0
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Logged it0
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Up to you. I don't though. I also clean my dishes at work, wipe down my desk and even vacuum the floor in my office at work. It's a regular routine but not something I ever considered as exercise and as others have previously said, it's not easy to measure how many cals you've burnt by doing housework. My activity level is set at sedentary because I work in a desk bound job. Atleast your active, which is the main thing0
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This sort of faux-debate is exactly why I use TDEE instead of NEAT. Movement is movement, whether or not I think of it as "exercise" or "normal daily activity". I don't make the distinction because it just seems so arbitrary. Which is to say, I don't log any exercise; I just build an average amount of it into my calorie goal.0
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