Activitiy/Excercise

[Guest guest]

At the risk of beating a dead horse I just wanted clear up a few things.

It seems people are taking what I have said out of context. I never said

that Standing was exercise. I was simply trying to counter this statement...

" Day to day activities, including those at work (unless you are a fitness

instructor or a gymnast) do not give you AP's. "

My point was that even though you may not be a " fitness instructor or a

gymnast " that doesn't mean you can't be earning activity points at work

(whatever your work may be) For example our post man walked 5 miles a day

for his job. He was simply doing his job and was not setting out to exercise

every day...yet he WAS getting exercise and therefore earning activity

points (if he was on WW or even gave a crap). I worked as a tour guide at

Oregon Caves and would walk 1 mile for each tour and climb over 500 stairs

each tour, giving at least 5 tours a day. I was most assuredly doing

exercise even though my intent was simply to do my job and get my paycheck.

Conversely if raising your heart rate and breaking a sweat are all that is

required for exercise then technically (or my over weight friend who

breaks a sweat cooking and standing around the kitchen) are doing exercise.

Along with every middle aged woman going through menopause as someone else

suggested. I have never had hot flashes but my mom does have her heart rate

increase and she breaks out in a sweat. That's all I was trying to get at.

I wasn't trying to start some huge disagreement I was just pointing out that

you can earn AP's at work. I will still counter anyone who claims that an

overweight person isn't burning more calories just standing up though. I'm

not saying you should count it as an activity or earn AP's for it! All I am

saying is that it makes no difference if you are standing in one place

holding a 100 lb bag or dog food, a 100 pounds worth of barbells, or a

hundred pounds of fat, it still ususes muscles and requires stamina. In Tae

Kwon Do we did isometric exercises where you stand in one place and hold

your knee up at waist level, or hold your arms straight out for as long as

you can. That is still considered exercise even though it isn't very

difficult. I wouldn't count AP's for that either.

On an interesting side note you also burn more calories if you are

exercising in the cold. My husband said when he was in Norway in the Marines

they would get extra rations. They were hiking and doing work in extremely

cold conditions and were told it takes more calories to work in the cold

because your body is working harder to maintaining it's temperature.

Kris

[Guest guest]

Kris, you're making good points! Hang in there .

K -:|:-

Kris Swofford wrote:

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> At the risk of beating a dead horse I just wanted clear up a few things.