Black Friday

gewel321 wrote: »

I am going to participate in the chaos that is Black Friday this year. I know that I will be up and moving and possibly fighting my way through the crowds.

My question is how do I log this exercise so that I get credit for it? I have an apple watch but it doesn't track exercise well unless I put in a workout.

in the workout thing, select "other" as your work out.

It’s just steps, just like any other day. Your watch tracks steps all day long doesn’t it? You don’t need to do anything extra/special.

Good luck with Black Friday. I hate the whole concept and will be staying home all day.

SuzySunshine99 wrote: »

There's gotta be an entry you can use...maybe search for "pushing down old ladies", and "kicking small children our of your way".

Extra points if you add "Climbing over barriers" and "Running from mall security guards".

You could probably log that as an obstacle race / tough mudder!

Katmary71 wrote: »

I've seen friends log shopping.

I've seen friends - on MFP and IRL - do lots of things that really aren't a very super-good idea. If someone has a long-established average TDEE (based on logging their own data carefully and monitoring scale weight results), especially if their daily life movement is very limited (such as by illness or physical disability), then it might make sense to log some unusually large (for them) amount of a common, but unusual for them, activity.

OP, does your Apple watch recognize "walking" as a workout activity that you can set? If so, maybe do that. Any difference from fighting (?!) on top of that would be quite minor, in calorie terms.

Unless the amount of walking involved in shopping is substantially more walking than you'd normally do in a day, I personally wouldn't log it at all. I'm not a big fan in general of taking extra exercise as an add-on to deficit, especially not on a regular basis, but if something is objectively a reasonably small difference, it might be the best answer.

The Compendium of Physical Activities**, for comparison purposes, lists activity 05055 ("putting away groceries (e.g. carrying groceries, shopping without a grocery cart), carrying packages") as 2.5 METS, and that's about the closest thing listed. That would be slightly lower calorie burn than activity 17152 ("walking, 2.0 mph, level, slow pace, firm surface") at 2.8 METS. (MFP, under the covers of the exercise database, pretty much uses METS to estimate exercise calories, mostly. More info about METS and how they work is at link below.)

** https://sites.google.com/site/compendiumofphysicalactivities/

BrianSharpe wrote: »

gewel321 wrote: »

My question is how do I log this exercise so that I get credit for it?

Seriously?

Agreed. Most people have much bigger fish to fry from a diet and exercise perspective than hoping to get a few hundred extra calories for a once a year event.

gewel321 wrote: »

I am going to participate in the chaos that is Black Friday this year. I know that I will be up and moving and possibly fighting my way through the crowds.

My question is how do I log this exercise so that I get credit for it? I have an apple watch but it doesn't track exercise well unless I put in a workout.

I don't have an apple watch but I used to have a fitbit. I'm confused - doesn't your AW track your steps?

Are you familiar with this? https://www.businessinsider.com/does-apple-watch-track-steps-how-to