Exercising in bits and pieces

Lifelong battler of my weight here, 53f. I'm on the wagon and trying a different approach. Eating healthy and down 40lbs, around 35lbs to go.

One thing is I'm not "working out" as a single event, rather I'm doing things throughout the day. A set of squats here, crunches there, a hike later... you get the idea.

Assuming the overall volume is the same as when I do it in one workout episode, how much of a difference do you think it makes to break it up like this? I'm sure some because I'm not working up to, and sustaining, a higher heart rate and not tiring my muscles as much. But curious how much of a difference you think it makes? I'm not even sure how to quantify this... like 20% more calories if I did one episode?

So far I'm enjoying the sporadic nature of it, rather than needing a whole hour (or more) to find time to exercise all at once, I'm fitting small parts in between meetings, after dinner, before bed, etc.

As I'm liking this approach for now, I'll keep doing it either way since what I can maintain is more important than what's better by any definition.

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