Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Calories burned at work?

ecle5c
ecle5c
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2005/07/07, 02:45 PM
I know that you have to get your heart rate up to a certain level to efficiently burn calories and fat. I walk the entire time I am at work and carry things around back and forth and put 25-50 lb boxes on shelves. Should I up my caloric intake due to this? I am trying to bulk and don't want to short change myself especially since I am taking the time to count calories, protein, fat. . . .etc. I know that it wouldn't count as much as with say a cardio session but it has to use more calories that the guy who sits upstairs at a desk all day and doesn't move except to get his morning doughnut.