Horsey Life Style!

Epesii

Hey everyone!

Question;
Every day, I have to muck out my mare's stable. This includes lifting her poop into a bucket, then lifting the bucket into a spreader, sweeping, filling and carrying haynets, moving waterbuckets, walking to and from the fields; let alone riding the girl!!

Does anyone have any idea what calories this burns? As I can't find it in database and would be helpful to my weightloss

Thanks!

kgeyser

Honestly, I wouldn't even log it as this is daily activity for you. Changing your settings to Lightly Active or Active might be a more appropriate way of accounting for the calorie burn, and you wouldn't have to worry about logging it every day.

Liftng4Lis

http://queryhorse.com/toppages/articles/caloriesmucking.asp

steff274

Hey I have added you I log it when I do more than one stable when I am on the yard working because I will need the extra calories to prevent me from dropping too much weight!!

editorgrrl

Work (including housework, yard work & childcare) is part of your activity level—not exercise.

Start with active, wait several weeks, then reevaluate your progress: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided

Work = activity level. Workouts = exercise.

losergood2011

This is not light work. I don't a entry for farmwork. If I have a heavy day (haven't mucked out the mud pen until spring, put up 7 ton hay, spend a day at a clinic that requires lots of ground work and trot canter) then I adjust it. Mucking is a great workout - heavy lifting with shovel, rotation of spine and hips, lifting wheelbarrows or buckets :-) Good for you!

harric88

Put it this way I never saw above 9st when i had my horse - horseless and now 13st 5 - mucking out = abs!!!

loratliff

I log riding itself, but not grooming, mucking, or other stablework. I agree with others that changing your activity setting is probably more accurate.