We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

Cardio help lose weight

PrincessV0510
PrincessV0510 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
If you want cleaning to count as a cardio, you should make sure you sweat at lot, so make a lot of moves like if you were working out at the gym, and keep up the heart rate.

Replies

  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Or keep cleaning as part of your activity level and then go to the gym...
  • janjunie
    janjunie Posts: 1,200 Member
    Sounds like extra work. I don't enjoy cleaning enough to make it go on longer then it has to.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    Barbie668 wrote: »
    If you want cleaning to count as a cardio, you should make sure you sweat at lot, so make a lot of moves like if you were working out at the gym, and keep up the heart rate.

    sweat does not equate with weight loss.

    housekeeping is included in your daily activity level, and is not deliberate exercise or something 'outside of the norm'.
  • nordlead2005
    nordlead2005 Posts: 1,303 Member
    callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »
    Barbie668 wrote: »
    If you want cleaning to count as a cardio, you should make sure you sweat at lot, so make a lot of moves like if you were working out at the gym, and keep up the heart rate.

    sweat does not equate with weight loss.

    housekeeping is included in your daily activity level, and is not deliberate exercise or something 'outside of the norm'.

    Unless you are rich and have a maid, then cleaning is outside the norm.

    While cleaning is easier to lump into your activity level for most people, there is no one size fits all solution when it comes down to how to split the logging. If logging cleaning as exercise results in the correct weight loss over time, then more power to you.
  • niniundlapin
    niniundlapin Posts: 327 Member
    What about once-in-a-while long distance driving? I mean, that's not my daily activity and I'm talking about 4+ hours of driving (either one way or round trip) without counting the time spent in traffic. :neutral:
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    janjunie wrote: »
    Sounds like extra work. I don't enjoy cleaning enough to make it go on longer then it has to.

    :laugh:
  • Yi5hedr3
    Yi5hedr3 Posts: 2,696 Member
    Get yer butt to the gym and pump iron!!! ;)
This discussion has been closed.

Categories