What kind of activity level am I? Not sure.

LucStarks
LucStarks Posts: 1 Member
edited 2:01AM in Fitness and Exercise
So I'm not sure what level of Activity I am for this website. I go to the gym and go weight training for between I hour 30min and 2 hours, 6 days a week (monday to saturday) and about 20-30 min of walking.

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  • Patttience
    Patttience Posts: 975 Member
    I would say that's the top activity level. But the thing is if you are doing this much exercise, i'm surprised that you need to bother counting calories at all. If you are overweight, well apart from being surprised, you must be eating a ton of food every day.

    The challenge for you is, can you maintain a low body weight or even lose weight (if you were heavier) without doing all this activity? I can lose weight iwthout exercise but i can't maintain a low body weight without exercise.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,615 Member
    edited October 2015
    LucStarks wrote: »
    So I'm not sure what level of Activity I am for this website. I go to the gym and go weight training for between I hour 30min and 2 hours, 6 days a week (monday to saturday) and about 20-30 min of walking.

    What do you do besides that? Do you spend 8 hours a day in an office sitting at a desk? If so, then you're sedentary. Or do you have an active job?


    Personally, I enter myself as sedentary (office job), and then I add my exercise on top of that when I do it.
    (I walk briskly approx. 30-60 min a day + 18 minutes of stair climbing 5 days a week + cycling for an hour or more on weekends + some additional activity some evenings like an extra walk, bicycle ride, weights or whatever.)

  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    Go with lightly active, or lower.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,615 Member
    In another thread, @tomatoey describes it like this ...

    Sedentary: Spend most of the day sitting (e.g. bank teller, desk job)

    Lightly Active: Spend a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher, salesman)

    Active: Spend a good part of the day doing some physical activity (e.g. waitress, mailman)

    Very Active: Spend most of the day doing heavy physical activity (e.g. bike messenger, carpenter)
  • AsISmile
    AsISmile Posts: 1,004 Member
    Patttience wrote: »
    I would say that's the top activity level. But the thing is if you are doing this much exercise, i'm surprised that you need to bother counting calories at all. If you are overweight, well apart from being surprised, you must be eating a ton of food every day.

    The challenge for you is, can you maintain a low body weight or even lose weight (if you were heavier) without doing all this activity? I can lose weight iwthout exercise but i can't maintain a low body weight without exercise.

    I can't check OP's profile from the app, but couldn't OP trying to maintain/gain weight?

    Anyway, OP, gym time is not a part of activity level. Gym is exercise.
    Activity level is living your daily life.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,615 Member
    edited October 2015
    AsISmile wrote: »
    Patttience wrote: »
    I would say that's the top activity level. But the thing is if you are doing this much exercise, i'm surprised that you need to bother counting calories at all. If you are overweight, well apart from being surprised, you must be eating a ton of food every day.

    The challenge for you is, can you maintain a low body weight or even lose weight (if you were heavier) without doing all this activity? I can lose weight iwthout exercise but i can't maintain a low body weight without exercise.

    I can't check OP's profile from the app, but couldn't OP trying to maintain/gain weight?

    Anyway, OP, gym time is not a part of activity level. Gym is exercise.
    Activity level is living your daily life.

    Looks like he is trying to lose weight, but as you say, gym is exercise and activity level is daily life.

    Plus, although it is a decent amount of exercise, it isn't a huge amount of exercise. For example, the 20-30 min of walking is only about 80-100 calories.

  • randomsue
    randomsue Posts: 179 Member
    AsISmile wrote: »
    Patttience wrote: »
    I would say that's the top activity level. But the thing is if you are doing this much exercise, i'm surprised that you need to bother counting calories at all. If you are overweight, well apart from being surprised, you must be eating a ton of food every day.

    The challenge for you is, can you maintain a low body weight or even lose weight (if you were heavier) without doing all this activity? I can lose weight iwthout exercise but i can't maintain a low body weight without exercise.

    I can't check OP's profile from the app, but couldn't OP trying to maintain/gain weight?

    Anyway, OP, gym time is not a part of activity level. Gym is exercise.
    Activity level is living your daily life.

    This has been the best description yet. Activity level is your daily life. Thanks!
  • militarygirl92
    militarygirl92 Posts: 18 Member
    randomsue wrote: »
    AsISmile wrote: »
    Patttience wrote: »
    I would say that's the top activity level. But the thing is if you are doing this much exercise, i'm surprised that you need to bother counting calories at all. If you are overweight, well apart from being surprised, you must be eating a ton of food every day.

    The challenge for you is, can you maintain a low body weight or even lose weight (if you were heavier) without doing all this activity? I can lose weight iwthout exercise but i can't maintain a low body weight without exercise.

    I can't check OP's profile from the app, but couldn't OP trying to maintain/gain weight?

    Anyway, OP, gym time is not a part of activity level. Gym is exercise.
    Activity level is living your daily life.

    This has been the best description yet. Activity level is your daily life. Thanks!

    Perfect indeed! They should have this as a foot note!
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