Ten-finger exercise

According to the "Activity Calculator," typing at the computer burns off 41 calories per hour. That compares favorably with sittiing and reading, which uses up 27 calories per hour. Every little bit helps. "Goomp in his study yesterday afternoon calls to mind St. Jerome in his," we captioned the above photo last fall. "Always ahead of his time with the latest high tech, the Goompster now enjoys a flat screen monitor with Windows XP under the hood."

Goomp weighs in to the comments on our previous post, "Weighty matters," with a happy thought:

I suppose for those who can't walk an hour a day that typing at the keyboard of the computer uses a few calories, and consuming less food can reduce an over abundance of pounds.

What with the reading (27 calories/hour), thinking -- Activity Calculator gives no calorie counts for mental exercise -- and typing (41 calories/hour) that we invest daily in blogging and keeping up to speed on things, we ourselves are expending perhaps 350 calories a day without even getting off our arse to go for walkies (364 calories). Add that to the Cold Turkey Diet, and we're on a losing streak. Or, as Pam says in the comments, "You've obviously got the thing whupped."

Comments

[Teresa]

I'm wondering how much typing per hour one must do in order to use up 41 calories... do they have a breakout in characters per hour? *grin* Of course I'm at my computer up to 14 hours a day... which is why I make sure to hit the pilates studio a couple times a week, do my tai chi several times a week, and walk with the hubby as many days a week as we can manage.

Having walked in all kinds of weather - I suggest scoping out the waterproof coats and shoes now - so you can continue to walk in the rain. A little later in the season - scope out the heavy shoes, big warm mittens, good hats and scarves for winter walking. Nothing kills a walking habit faster than a week of rain or very cold weather.

The only excuse for skipping is if the roads are flooded, it's lightning, or if it's below 10 degrees (and even that may keep you off the roads too often up north). Of course it's much easier to keep up the habit if you have a dog... because you really can't tell the dog - "it's too cold (or rainy) to go out today" - which is how we got in the habit of walking in all weather.

;-)