Gardening, shoveling, calories

likehlikeo

Hello everyone

My mom an I created a complete new flower bed out of an old pond. We dug out at least 50 big rocks, which easily weight 15-20 pounds each and put them on a pile. I shoveled dirt like a maniac and filled up the entire previous pond. We then put the rocks in circles, filling each one up with more dirt, to create a spiral and planted flowers and lavender.

The entire project took us 4 hours with a 20min. break.

I have no idea how many calories I could calculate for that...I only know, that I will have a really sore body tomorrow...

Any guesstimations?

LuckyStar813

In the Cardio area of Exercise you can look up Gardening and it to your journal.

likehlikeo

Ah, weird, when I used the iphone app, it gave me 6 calories for 4 hours of "gardening"...it works now I'm on my desktop.

bennettinfinity

Without knowing your stats, I'd guess somewhere in the of 200 kC +/- 100% range.

But really (and I'm not trying to be snarky here) unless it's purposeful, repeatable exercise, I wouldn't even worry about logging it. Did you burn some extra calories? Yes, but you're not going to move the rocks and dirt again tomorrow, next week, or even next month. In the overall scheme of things, it's not particularly meaningful.

debrakgoogins

bennettinfinity wrote: »

Without knowing your stats, I'd guess somewhere in the of 200 kC +/- 100% range.

But really (and I'm not trying to be snarky here) unless it's purposeful, repeatable exercise, I wouldn't even worry about logging it. Did you burn some extra calories? Yes, but you're not going to move the rocks and dirt again tomorrow, next week, or even next month. In the overall scheme of things, it's not particularly meaningful.

It is meaningful if you are eating back some of your exercise calories. The work she did was hard work and could put her under 1200 calories for the day if she doesn't log it.

rileyes

I've done a lot of heavy-duty landscaping like that--it's hard work! Digging may be equivalent to shoveling snow--I hear that is a good workout.

ClubSilencio

Are you hungrier than usual? If so you probably burned more calories than your usual workouts.

I've burned 1000 cals during workouts but doing manual labor like that leaves me absolutely zonked. I'd say that's 500 at least.