Calories burned cleaning carpet?

stephaniej2888

Anyone know how many calories you burn cleaning the carpet?
I spent 3 hours yesterday and 2 hours today pushing and pulling around a heavy duty rented carpet cleaner and it was definitely exhausting lol.
I don't normally count cleaning but that's not something I normally do, its a lot nore than normal cleaning and it definitely wasn't easy.

queenliz99

100 calories extra an hour? 300 calories?

SusanMFindlay

There's a "cleaning, heavy, vigorous effort" option. Sounds like what you're describing.

LivingtheLeanDream

I wouldn't count it at all personally, but you will have earned yourself extra calories which is a plus.

trigden1991

Assume it was part of your daily activity and move on. Enjoy the thought that you have just burned extra calories.

stephaniej2888

I wasn't necessarily going to add it to my log...just more out of curiosity

LivingtheLeanDream

stephaniej2888 wrote: »

I wasn't necessarily going to add it to my log...just more out of curiosity

in that case, around 200-250 calories per hour (fairly low estimation) height and weight alter the burn.

Francl27

Every day activity, I wouldn't even put it in there.

tomteboda

What you're describing isn't your normal activity for you. People who do this every day wind up laying themselves as "active" or"very active" and get a significantly higher calorie allotment to begin.

As had been suggested, use one of the "cleaning" entries.