Is painting exercise?

ACanadian22

I feel like it sure is. I have been at it for three days doing my whole house inside from 9am till 5pm and far from done. It isn't listed under any of the exercises though?

ugofatcat

http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/calories_burned.asp?exercise=121

Are you painting from 9 am to 5 pm with no breaks?

cwolfman13

I would consider painting to be a NEAT activity...I view "exercise" as something I'm doing deliberately to improve my fitness.

Yes, it would increase calorie expenditure vs being less active...but I don't really think that makes it "exercise."

I used to have a very active job doing landscape construction...while my calorie expenditure was much higher then than it is now sitting behind a desk, I never really thought of it as exercise. My hitting the weight room or going for a jog was deliberate exercise aimed at improving my fitness.

shaunshaikh

You can change your activity level for a day from sedentary or whatever you are to active and eat to that level.

cwolfman13

shaunshaikh wrote: »

You can change your activity level for a day from sedentary or whatever you are to active and eat to that level.

Yeah, this would be a better way to go about it than trying to guess with some database entry that is sure to be off.

When I had days like that when I was losing, I just chalked it up to owing myself a couple of nice IPAs...

RoxieDawn

It definitely will affect your energy expenditure for the day, but is classified as exercise, no. I did a quick search to find a MET table.. hopefully this will help.

http://www.topendsports.com/weight-loss/energy-met.htm

middlehaitch

This is how it goes with me.

Clear room, wash and prep walls, paint room, clean up, return furniture to room.
This, depending on room, can be 1-3 days.

During those days I am not doing anything else, no laundry, no gardening, no work, so my normal activity has been replaced by this painting activity.

I just count it as my regular activity as my regular activity is on hold, and the difference in calorie burn will be minimal.

This works for me. If you manage to fit all your usual activities into the day, as well as painting, give yourself a couple of hundred calories.
(You can make your own exercise entry for it if you are going to be painting often.)

Cheers, h.

callsitlikeiseeit

take it as a bonus.

bpetrosky

If you've been doing it right, you've trained yourself to defeat the Cobra Kai Dojo. Now show me "paint fence"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zamE9cvC6u0

dwilliamca

Yes. If it is something that isn't included in your average daily NEAT then I'd add it. Here is a site that you can search for those kind of "exercises". http://calorielab.com/burned/ I put in painting for 150 lb person and it gave me 238 calories an hour for a 150 lb. person.

Rosemary7391

I suspect it's too variable to be easily classified. I've got 10ft high ceilings, painting is a pain because I have to move the ladder every couple of feet around the top. Way different to painting the skirting which is more an exercise in enduring solvents than a physical exercise! I might just scale back my weight loss goal for those days - aim for 1 pound/week rate instead of 2 for instance. Or eat a bit extra and log it. It'll all come out in the wash

counting_kilojoules

middlehaitch wrote: »

This is how it goes with me.

Clear room, wash and prep walls, paint room, clean up, return furniture to room.
This, depending on room, can be 1-3 days.

During those days I am not doing anything else, no laundry, no gardening, no work, so my normal activity has been replaced by this painting activity.

I just count it as my regular activity as my regular activity is on hold, and the difference in calorie burn will be minimal.

This works for me. If you manage to fit all your usual activities into the day, as well as painting, give yourself a couple of hundred calories.
(You can make your own exercise entry for it if you are going to be painting often.)

Cheers, h.

I guess it depends on the person. I'm set as sedentary and to lose 1/2 a kilogram a week. The last time painted I ate my regular kilojoules, did half my regular exercise (which I ate back, as usual) and I did far less housework etc. I lost two kilos in a week.

TonyB0588

@ACanadian22 If your regular paid job is Painter, then set your Activity Level appropriately. If painting is an extra activity for you at this point in time, alongside of your regular routine, then I'd find a way to enter extra calories burnt in the chart.

I use this site http://www.fitclick.com/calories_burned to determine calorie burns from various activities.