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Pedometer question

  • 06-11-2014 6:51pm
    #1
    Assassin saphir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭


    I'm using Noom coach to lose some weight and am also using a pedometer as I find the Noom walk app a bit inaccurate. I work on my feet for 10-11 hrs a day. Some times 12hrs. During that time I sit for 20 mins to eat breakfast and lunch. My job is very physical in a large store. My pedometer is telling me that I am averaging 7 to 10 kms at work a day. Does this count as real exercise and can I add it exercise logs?
    I also complete a 2-4 km walk at night with my dog and log this, just wondering if work can be added?
    thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,228 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    It's activity, so it's exercise in that sense.
    But it's pretty low intensity.


  • #3
    tenifan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭tenifan


    It's activity, and certainly healthier than sitting at a desk. However:
    exercise. noun. activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness.

    I don't think your day job qualifies as exercise!
    The walk with your dog is light exercise. It helps unwind and your dog needs a daily walk. But you already do enough running around at work so, in addition to walking, try to consider exercise you might find more challenging and rewarding. A lot of people will immediately say "if you like walking you should take up running" but I'd probably steer you towards something like pilates or kettlebells.

    Oh, one more thing.. lose weight in the kitchen, get fit in the gym. If you want to lose weight, eat healthy. If you want to get fit, exercise.

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  • #4
    Assassin saphir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭Assassin saphir


    Thanks. I've already altered my diet by eating clean and controlling portion size. I can see the results and have lost 7lb. Another 11lbs to go. I'm enjoying the healthy eating and feel so much better.
    I will look into a more intense exercise regime.


  • #5
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,737 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    It's exercises and burns calories but the 7-10kms you accumulate at work wouldn't have the same effect as a 7-11km walk.

    If there's any way to seperate out the ground covered at work from your walking then I would say log it anyway as it is useful to record for the sake of recording the distance but the calories burned wouldn't be accurate.


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