i walk my dogs twice a day. usually 1-2km in the morning and about 5km in the afternoon. its a pan flat route. this results in about 10-15000 steps per day. i do not have a physically demanding job. ive never thought of adding them to my route but it probably adds some stress at least to my legs and perhaps hampers recovery? should i/do any of you add your walking to your calendar? i assume ai would adjust my workouts based on the extra stress.
It’s kind of up to you. 
If you’re recording those walks and feel that they have an impact on your training, feel free to sync them over to TR. 
I have a Garmin watch so it’s easy to track my steps and miles and heart rate so I add it. It made sense to me to put as much data as I can into the TrainerRoad calculator. Or should that be calculaTR?
My maybe “ unpopular “ opinion: No. That sort of thing to me is the same thing is if you added your steps as a delivery driver. It’s not extra taxation on your body. Just a normal daily thing.
extra stress? I can’t imagine that is any stress
Any sort of effort is a stress no matter how minimum. My main thought is how it would affect recovery. If I I’ve done a hard vo2 with 110tss then later in the day and the following day I’m walking several miles, would that not put at least some stress on my fatigued muscles? A 5km walk takes an hour. That’s an hour of using my leg muscles when I could be at home with my feet up
My particular experience with recording my walks is so that I can look back at the previous days and see when an intense interval session wasn’t productive.
I certainly know the difference on days when I work from home and when I’m out visiting appointments with my laptop etc in my rucksack.
Perhaps we’ve got different ideas of stress? The stress spectrum of sprinting/jogging/walking/being on my feet all day.
YMMV or maybe Your Step Count May Vary 
sounds like you should do it then
7km of walking would damn sure add stress to this kid!
Joe
Keep in mind TR won’t use runs/walks/yoga/strength and other misc activity in your TSS or FTPAI calc unless you assign it a TSS amount manually (doesn’t use HR or anything).
So still pretty manual unfortunately. What are you going to assign them for TSS? Its up to you?! lol I have to do the same with my Sauna Heat Training logging, Running, or Strength Training (typically just upper and core)… with how it relates to my Bike Training… I log walks, but generally don’t assign a TSS (or if I do just a couple points)
But as far as tracking it or not… it is daily life, so if you do it always… eventually it just washed out in the TSS expected vs actual. Its “baseline” not progressive stress. WHere as if every walk is 2km… but then you log two full days of walking at Disney World or hiking … then sure as heck that will effect your training on the bike!!! That is a new and long stress, even at very low intensity/effort.
I bet your dogs are in great shape! Four-legged endurance athletes. Cool! 
