If it’s not tracked, does it count?

I admit, I don’t wear a Fitbit or Apple watch.

My creepy iPhone is enough.

I discovered by accident that an app was counting our steps together and also wanted to know about my menstrual cycle and body measurements.

Me: Hey we just met; I’m not ready for that kind of intimacy!

My iPhone tracked the 10,000 steps at Six Flags, mostly going back and forth to the bathrooms, but didn’t do its job when I didn’t wear it. It didn’t track the 8 hours I spent cleaning out my garage, which would have likely counted 8,000 steps, 50 squats, 20 dead lifts, and 100 bicep curls.

But if you can’t prove it, does it count?

Here's an 8 minute listen from NPR about hotel cleaners who didn't believed they were exercising while they worked, and what happened when researchers got involved. And....it's surprising.

https://www.npr.org/17792517

So let me know - when you are cleaning your house, garage, doing landscaping - do you believe you are exercising?