How to log excersie from long work day???

Christine42012
Christine42012 Posts: 33
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Ok I'm a hairstylist and today I had a slamming day. 12 haircuts and 2 chemicals. LONG DAY on my feet and running around the salon. I was wondering how I should log that into my exercise for the day. It was 7 hours of non stop go go go. . . I think that should count for some good cals burnt. What do you guys think?

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  • emmalecras
    emmalecras Posts: 79 Member
    Could you put it in as slow walking?
  • Smuterella
    Smuterella Posts: 1,623 Member
    My understanding is that you do not log your work day as exercise but that you should instead set up your profile as active to show that you are on your feel all day.
  • MaximalLife
    MaximalLife Posts: 2,447 Member
    Ok I'm a hairstylist and today I had a slamming day. 12 haircuts and 2 chemicals. LONG DAY on my feet and running around the salon. I was wondering how I should log that into my exercise for the day. It was 7 hours of non stop go go go. . . I think that should count for some good cals burnt. What do you guys think?
    No, that's NOT exercise.

    If it was such a great workout, why did it not work for you before today?
    We all have such items we could log in as exercise. It's tempting, but don't.

    Your activity should be reflected in your settings - not logged in as "exercise".

    Go do REAL exercise.
  • ChristineS_51
    ChristineS_51 Posts: 872 Member
    Hey, get a pedometer and see how many steps you do - 10,000 steps a day is required to maintain your weight - more than that and you would hopefully lose weight. I agree that you should amend your profile to show you have an active job. I am a sedentary office worker, but today I walked around to talk to people instead of phoning them. Going to wear my pedometer to work tomorrow and see how I go. Bet I don't get any where near 10K :laugh:
  • monkeymouse74
    monkeymouse74 Posts: 288
    Sorry, but it's not considered exercise. I've also had a manic day. I had to take down all the christmas lights from outside, spring clean my three story home, and go clean my friends 5bed holiday house (as a favour, because they're comming down for the week-end, and it was rented out to 8 young people last week, and it's her birthday). I also took my other friends dogs for their daily hour walk because her son was ill and had to go to the doctors, and I still had to work. (I'm a mobile beauty therapist and I had three full body aromatherapy massages to do). But the only exercise I logged was my treadmill walk and my swim. Because that was my only planned exercise.
  • 1a1a
    1a1a Posts: 761 Member
    I have my settings on sedentary, but when I do work, it involves some walking around like that (and definitely being on my feet). I tried logging it as walking (always for shorter duration though say, somewhere between 30 minutes and 3 hours depending on how exhausted I feel after).

    Regardless of what others say, try logging something for a bit, if you eat to goal and lose weight, you will know you were right, if you eat to goal and maintain or gain you will know you need to reassess.
  • kag1526
    kag1526 Posts: 210 Member
    monkeymouse in your case I would have logged walking the dogs as well.

    For the rest I don't log extra things... like when I turned on music and cleaned my house and danced around all morning yesterday, or some of my kinect games etc. I'm sure I burn more calories then but if so thats just a bonus I'm not going to eat more because of it.
  • jazzminx
    jazzminx Posts: 236 Member
    Hate to say it, but I agree. I'm a waitress 3-4 nights a week and there are a lot of days I'm tempted to log my work as exercise because I'm slammed (walking quickly, carrying heavy trays and plates). I'm on my feet for at least 5 hours and since I'm a closer I need to move all the tables to sweep and mop underneath after every shift. I'm rather tired after that, but really it's just my daily life so I don't feel it should count as extra exercise.
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    Yeah, I log my dog walks. But unless I've had a spectacularly insane day at work or cleaning, I don't log it. I've done that maybe twice in the past six months.

    As someone else suggested, you could just adjust your setting from sedentary to lightly active? That's, realistically, the kind of working day you're describing there. Possibly active?

    And bask in the smug glow of knowing you worked hard, and probably did yourself some good in doing so, and hope for a nice solid weightloss this week. :-)
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    Hate to say it, but I agree. I'm a waitress 3-4 nights a week and there are a lot of days I'm tempted to log my work as exercise because I'm slammed (walking quickly, carrying heavy trays and plates). I'm on my feet for at least 5 hours and since I'm a closer I need to move all the tables to sweep and mop underneath after every shift. I'm rather tired after that, but really it's just my daily life so I don't feel it should count as extra exercise.

    But what do you have your activity level set to?
  • Christine42012
    Christine42012 Posts: 33
    Thanks for your inputs. But I do have to defend myself a little :) I only work 1 full day a week, then only 2 3 hour quiet shifts. So it was not a "normal day". Thats why I was wondering about logging it in at an exercise. I'm not trying to "cheat" myself more calories. I have my settings set a light active because I have 2 children that I chase around during my day to day. I just feel that if I have a calorie burning day at work I should be able to log it in.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    It would depend what you have your lifestyle setting as. If you put active in, then those calories are probably already accounted for.
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