Weeding the Garden as Exercise

DinoChicken
DinoChicken Posts: 44 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I don't know if its the heat, being on my hands and knees, or the motion of ripping out weeds but I pour sweat the whole time doing it.. Does anyone have any good data on possible benefits/calories burned from good ole fashioned hands and knees weeding?

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  • spookyface
    spookyface Posts: 420 Member
    I have a book that lumps yard work and gardening as burning the same amount of calories. If you log exercise just choose gardening general. That's what I do anyway.
  • RaeBeeBaby
    RaeBeeBaby Posts: 4,246 Member
    MFP calculates calorie burn for gardening. Isn't weeding part and parcel of the same? (I count it as such.)
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    I live in Florida, just sitting outside I sweat majorly, no extra calories burned, otherwise everybody living in Florida would be toothpicks. I'm sure you burn some calories, but I don't count them, I just do real exercises, walking and lifting. :)
  • DinoChicken
    DinoChicken Posts: 44 Member
    I just can't see gardening as a general term. Tilling does not equal raking/hoeing does not equal planting does not equal fertilizing.. And so on.. The activities are waaaay to different.

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