Do you log cleaning as an exercise?

CharlieBeansmomTracey

SezxyStef wrote: »

bobshuckleberry wrote: »

I do when I clean/organize for other people (which is one of the side jobs I picked up) and if I do something out of the ordinary like walls or other heavy cleaning that does increase my heart rate and cause me to sweat.

sweating is not a good indicator of effort or energy expenditure.

neither is heart rate like she also stated

cece1012003

I only log vigorous exercise that I do, like jump roping. Before I would do that and thought I had the allowance to eat more. Completely backfired. Now that I do only the vigorous, I seem to be shedding without compromising my body.

Christine_72

Just to iterate.. I have a fitbit, and on the days that i do heavy cleaning or gardening etc it barely makes a blip on my overall daily calorie burn. There's absolutely NO comparison compared to when i actually exercise. So this tells me that logging household activities is a waste of time -for me- and will likely give an overestimate.

cwolfman13

HealthyKatty wrote: »

Basically title. I've seen you can add cleaning as an exercise, but it seems a bit weird to log it as one?
Thoughts would be appreciated.

No...even a sedentary activity level setting is going to account for general house work, cooking, etc.

The only time I ever considered it was when we do our bi-annual deep clean which takes us most of the day or full days of landscape work...but really, those things are just one offs so I chalked them up to earning a couple of beers.

AMV91

When I was 350+ pounds, yes I did. I would be sweating and my heart would be beating like mad whenever I did a full clean (scrubbing, changing sheets, laundry, washing walls, etc.)

Once I got around 250 ish I stopped.

earlnabby

HealthyKatty wrote: »

Basically title. I've seen you can add cleaning as an exercise, but it seems a bit weird to log it as one?
Thoughts would be appreciated.

I don't. I wear a tracker so my steps count towards my daily activity.