Does All Exercise Count?

adigiaci
adigiaci Posts: 3 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone know if there's any point to the exercise I've been doing at work? I have to sit for 12 hours. I've started doing 20 counter push-ups and 20 squats (holding a couple of big fat manuals) every hour. It passes the time, keeps me from being sedentary, but does it help me burn calories? In other words, does exercise count if it's done for 3 min at a time over 12 hours?

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  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    It all counts. If you took a five minute walk every hour at work, it woul give you 30 minutes for the day. If you do that five days a week, you would meet the minimum requirements of getting out of the sedentary classification.

    Will that get you fit? No.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    It doesn't burn a ton of cals, but def burns more than sitting at your desk. Plus it's building your strength & endurance!
  • meritage4
    meritage4 Posts: 1,441 Member
    so the real answer is what is happening to your weight and measurements? You tell us if it making a difference.
  • adigiaci
    adigiaci Posts: 3 Member
    Umm...well I am losing weight. But that's probably mostly due to my abandonment of beloved pancakes. I don't take measurements (although pants do fit better). I do real workouts on my days off. Just hard to work out after 12-hour day at work (even if it is sitting).
  • adigiaci
    adigiaci Posts: 3 Member
    Thanks to all for the help and responses :-)
  • jaynee7283
    jaynee7283 Posts: 160 Member
    It technically counts, but I wouldn't count it. For example, I park WAY far away from my office. It takes me 10 minutes to walk from my car to my desk. Do I log that as exercise? Nope. But I do log the 3-mile walks I take at night after work. Anything I do in the course of my normal workday I don't count as exercise.

    Now, if I took a 30-minute aerobics class during my lunch time versus sitting and surfing the net, then yes, I'd count that.

    If you want to clock your 30 minutes, I'd do it at the bare minimum of calorie burn because doing then 20 at a time every hour is not going to burn many calories.
  • LAMCDylan
    LAMCDylan Posts: 1,218 Member
    adigiaci wrote: »
    Does anyone know if there's any point to the exercise I've been doing at work? I have to sit for 12 hours. I've started doing 20 counter push-ups and 20 squats (holding a couple of big fat manuals) every hour. It passes the time, keeps me from being sedentary, but does it help me burn calories? In other words, does exercise count if it's done for 3 min at a time over 12 hours?

    Every movement of your body requires energy. So it does count.

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